Results for "Hugh Masekela"

Inntoene Festival: Diersbach, Austria, June 10-12, 2011

by Sebastian Scotney
June 25, 2011

Inntoene Festival 2011 Diersbach, Austria June 10-12, 2011 I overheard a conversation at the Inntoene Festival in Austria. In a mock-incredulous tone, one New York musician was asking another: “Straight up. You're telling me. That this whole farm place. Is owned. By a trombonist?!“ Cue laughter and the ...

Avishai Cohen: Trumpet Trio Makes Strong Mark

by R.J. DeLuke
April 11, 2011

Avishai Cohen is a trumpeter of substantial talent, working hard on his craft and career, making strides that are tangible. The steps that he takes, the bands that he plays with, are impressive. There are a lot of good young trumpeters out there, and he's situated squarely in their lot.Early this year, he toured ...

Coal Train

Featuring the music of Hugh Masekela
Duration: 8:08
April 4, 2011

Keiko Matsui: The Road...

by Jeff Winbush
March 9, 2011

It's a new year, record label, management, and hairstyle for Keiko Matsui, but her first album since 2007's Moyo (Shout Factory!) finds the Japanese pianist still in fine form. The Road... isn't as radical a shift in direction as Moyo was, as Matsui added African influences to her unique melding of musical styles, but it is ...

Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue

by Dan McClenaghan
February 25, 2011

The pianist's name was Dollar Brand. He came out of a nascent South African jazz scene in 1959 with The Jazz Epistles, a group that included trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Though his profile has never reached Masekela-like heights--the trumpeter's fame shot sky high with a huge number one pop chart hit in 1968, “Grazin' in the Grass"--Dollar ...

Hugh! The Best Of Hugh Masekela Presented By Till Brönner

By Hugh Masekela

Label: Justin Time
Released: 2010

CARNEGIE HALL presents Hugh Masekela at the Stern Auditorium on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 8 PM

October 4, 2010

Hugh Masekela, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, and Vocals Part of the Around the Globe concert series. Saturday, October 16, 2010 8 PM Tickets from $13.50-$74 Over the course of a 40-year career—during which he has collaborated with artists from Paul Simon to The Byrds to Ladysmith Black Mambazo—this extraordinary trumpeter-composer has mixed the music ...

Hugh Masekela’s Trumpet Grooves on North American October Tour

October 3, 2010

The Musical Umbilical Cord that Connects America and Africa: Hugh Masekela's Trumpet Grooves on North American October Tour Before jazz had a name and “world music" was a concept, a young trumpet player emerged from another hemisphere and landed alongside some of the greatest icons in American music. Louis Armstrong sent him a trumpet. Harry Belafonte ...

Blue Note Records Signs Ambrose Akinmusire

June 28, 2010

JAZZ TRUMPETER & MONK COMPETITION WINNER “DESTINED FOR MUCH WIDER RECOGNITION" (NEW YORK TIMES) EMI's Blue Note Records has signed jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ambrose Akinmusire. The 28 year-old winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition will head into the studio this Fall to record his major label debut with labelmate Jason Moran as ...

Hugh Masekela Amid Cup Fervor, Revisiting Pain of Apartheid

May 17, 2010

My introduction to Hugh Masekela came in 1968. Amid great turbulence, assassinations and riots, Masekela's hit single “Grazing in the Grass" became the breezy anthem of a hot summer. Masekela, we learned, was the South African-born trumpet player who had come to the United States in 1960 to escape the tyranny of apartheid. Far beyond the ...