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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela and Paul Simon
about 1 year ago
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  • Album:
    Hugh Masekela Presents the Chisa Years
  • Track:
    A Cheeka Laka Laka - (with Baranta/Miatta Fahnbulleh)

The following material is quoted from the Daily OM Music review. You can read the whole article at dailyom.com.May 2, 2008Hugh Masekela Presents the Chisa Years 1965-1975Hugh Masekela2005"Having scored with his 1968 instrumental, "Grazing in the Grass," and his blazing number at the Monterey Pop festival, Hugh Masekela was an in-demand producer who too often found himself turning out watered-d...

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Summertime CD 1: Hugh Masekela presents The Chisa Years
over 2 years ago
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In the never ending search for fresh sounds to assist in the navigation of my life, I turn to Hugh Masekela.The South African trumpeteer/fugelhorn player and jazz great brings afrobeat from the past into my present.Produced by Masekela, The Chisa Years (1965-1975) Rare and Unreleased is a gem. Not even a diamond in the rough, but one that shines in its natural form, without the aid of the grin...

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"The Seven Riffs of Africa"
about 1 year ago

this is a medley of three tunes, two traditional, one more modern, released in 1984 by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. He's nearly 70 now, and has been playing for over half a century - I think I posted a 1950s track by the Father Huddleston Band that he played on a few months ago.The tunes here are"The Lion Never Sleeps" (trad)"Isikhokiyana" (trad)"Grazing in the Grass" (written by Phil...

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Funky Masekela
about 1 year ago
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  • Album:
    African Breeze: 80s Masekela
  • Track:
    Don't Go Lose It Baby (Stretch Mix)

from 1984, with the full extended mix of his "Don't Go Lose It Baby", which I am told was a "club hit". I suspect the younglings will know what that means.

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Hugh Masekela and Paul Simon
about 1 year ago
  • Artist:
  • Album:
    Hugh Masekela Presents the Chisa Years
  • Track:
    A Cheeka Laka Laka - (with Baranta/Miatta Fahnbulleh)

The following material is quoted from the Daily OM Music review. You can read the whole article at dailyom.com.May 2, 2008Hugh Masekela Presents the Chisa Years 1965-1975Hugh Masekela2005"Having scored with his 1968 instrumental, "Grazing in the Grass," and his blazing number at the Monterey Pop festival, Hugh Masekela was an in-demand producer who too often found himself turning out watered-d...

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Summertime CD 1: Hugh Masekela presents The Chisa Years
over 2 years ago
Blog post image preview

In the never ending search for fresh sounds to assist in the navigation of my life, I turn to Hugh Masekela.The South African trumpeteer/fugelhorn player and jazz great brings afrobeat from the past into my present.Produced by Masekela, The Chisa Years (1965-1975) Rare and Unreleased is a gem. Not even a diamond in the rough, but one that shines in its natural form, without the aid of the grin...

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SPEAKING IN CODE, LIVING IN EXILE AND CRASHING THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY STAGE: New Amnesty International Song and Video The Price of Silence Makes Urgent Call for Universal Human Rights
11 months ago

World Music News Wire A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan’s bloody civil war at age six, winds up in a refugee camp where he regains his dignity, but not his childhood. An outspoken singer is compelled to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of police intimidation at her concerts and a pervasive.

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