Results for "Hugh Masekela"

Flugelhorn Legend Hugh Masekela Interviewed at AAJ

May 5, 2009

"I think it is incumbent, not just on every artist, but every person who has as their source communities that are disadvantaged, to give back," says Hugh Masekela, antiapartheid champion, friend of the downtrodden and musician extraordinaire who is still going strong at the age of 70. “If you don't give back, I think you end ...

INgrooves Adds Telarc and Headsup Overseas

April 29, 2009

INgrooves has inked Telarc and Heads Up International, both divisions of Concord Music Group for digital distribution worldwide excluding the US and Canada. The wide ranging Telarc and Heads Up catalogs include jazz icons like Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner and Stanley Clarke, the blues of Taj Mahal and Tab Benoit, contemporary jazz from the likes Candy ...

Hugh Masekela: Phola

by Douglas Payne
March 20, 2009

Phola celebrates Hugh Masekela's 70th year and marks the South African trumpeter's half century of bringing the music of his homeland to many ears throughout the world.As such, this musical statement--the 35th under Masekela's own name--seems to call for a glorious, celebratory mood. Instead, it is more of a quiet reflection on life, love, ...

Phola

By Hugh Masekela

Label: Justin Time
Released: 2008

Hope

By Hugh Masekela

Label: Justin Time
Released: 2008

Movie for Masekela

October 9, 2008

International jazz giant Hugh Masekela travels the world, playing London, New York, Paris and more in any given year. But he has such fond memories of his childhood in Emalahleni, which was called Witbank at the time, that he's planning a movie about those years. “I want the film to depict how Witbank was back in ...

WBGO's Upcoming JazzSet - Hugh Masekela at Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and Grammy Nominee Charles Tolliver at Detroit Int'l Jazz Festival

February 8, 2008

For two weeks in February, NPR's weekly radio series JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater broadcasts recent performances by jazz trumpeters Hugh Masekela and Charles Tolliver, and shares their individual stories. Masekela, onstage at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, airs the week beginning February 14. The Charles Tolliver Big Band at the Detroit International Jazz Festival airs the ...

Chileshe

Featuring the music of Hugh Masekela
Duration: 4:25
January 20, 2008

Live At The Market Theatre

By Hugh Masekela

Label: Justin Time
Released: 2007

The Best Of Hugh Masekela

By Hugh Masekela

Label: Justin Time
Released: 2006