Hugh Masekela - Chileshe - LIVE at Afrikafestival Hertme 2012

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Performance - 8 July 2012
Hugh Masekela has an extensive jazz background and credentials, but has enjoyed major success as one of the earliest leaders in the world fusion mode. Masekela's vibrant trumpet and flügelhorn solos have been featured in pop, R&B, disco, Afro-pop, and jazz contexts. He's had American and international hits, worked with bands around the world, and played with African, African-American, European, and various American musicians during a stellar career. His style, especially on flügelhorn, is a charismatic blend of striking upper-register lines, half-valve effects, and repetitive figures and phrases, with some note bending, slurs, and tonal colors. Though he's often simplified his playing to fit into restrictive pop formulas, Masekela is capable of outstanding ballad and bebop work.

He began singing and playing piano as a child, influenced by seeing the film Young Man with a Horn at 13. Masekela started playing trumpet at 14. He played in the Huddleston Jazz Band, which was led by anti-apartheid crusader and group head Trevor Huddleston. Huddleston was eventually deported, and Masekela co-founded the Merry Makers of Springs along with Jonas Gwangwa. He later joined Alfred Herbert's Jazz Revue, and played in studio bands backing popular singers. Masekela was in the orchestra for the musical King Kong, whose cast included Miriam Makeba. He was also in the Jazz Epistles with Abdullah Ibrahim, Makaya Ntshoko, Gwanga, and Kippie Moeketsi. Masekela and Makeba, his wife at that time, left South Africa one year before Ibrahim and Sathima Bea Benjamin in 1961. Such musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, John Dankworth, and Harry Belafonte assisted him. Masekela studied at the Royal Academy of Music, then the Manhattan School of Music. During the early '60s, his career began to explode. He recorded for MGM, Mercury, and Verve, developing his hybrid African/pop/jazz style. Masekela moved to California and started his own record label, Chisa. He cut several albums expanding this formula and began to score pop success. The song "Grazing in the Grass" topped the charts in 1968 and eventually sold four million copies worldwide. That year Masekela sold out arenas nationwide during his tour, among them Carnegie Hall. He recorded in the early '70s with Monk Montgomery & the Crusaders.

Home Is Where the Music IsMasekela moved in a more ethnic direction during the '70s. He traveled to London to play with Nigerian Afro-beat great Fela Kuti & Africa 70; then came a session with Dudu Pukwana, Eddie Gomez, and Ntshoko, among others, that resulted in his finest jazz/African album, Home Is Where The Music Is. Masekela toured Guinea with the Ghanian Afro-pop band Hedzoleh Soundz, then recorded a series of albums with them both in California and Africa with guest stints from the Crusaders, Patti Austin, and others. Masekela alternated between America and Africa, cutting a successful pop/dance album with Herb Alpert in the late '70s. During the '80s, Masekela returned to South Africa. He visited Zimbabwe and Botswana, and recorded two albums with the Kalahari Band that once more merged jazz-rock, funk, and pop. Masekela was part of Paul Simon's Graceland tour in the mid-'80s, while he continued recording and produced sessions by Makeba. Starting in the mid-'90s, Masekela began releasing a stream of albums and collections that showed his versatility and growth in South African jazz. He continued to be active into the first decade of the 21st century, issuing Live at the Market Theatre in 2007, Phola in 2009, and a pair of albums in 2012, Friends (with Larry Willis) and Jabulani, inspired by South African wedding traditions Masekela remembered from his childhood. Though the jazz content of his work has varied over the years, Hugh Masekela has far more material on the plus side than the negative.
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2024 and still playing this tune! Rest well sir.

nyendemoses
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Dear Minister of Arts in South Africa
May his Horns, cowbell, shakers and other percussions be kept as National Treasure in Arts Museum...

Blackkavanje
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I really love his concert, too sad because I’ve never been there. Rest easy

tudopelotrap
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The entire band was amazing, the old man was having fun, his age did not limit his moves.

fhatuwaniedwardlipharama
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Still listening to chileshe after playing it for over 300 or more times. Rest well SIR HUGH.

isaacvanderpuijeunikklinin
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if GOD can give us strength to wake them up this world is no longer the same without them😢😢😢😢😢😢

rctrjui
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Bra Hughs' Live performances were always the best. work of art more spiritual then first published sound.

simakahleshamase
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Can we take a few moments to acknowledge how beautiful his horn is?!!!

It's too bad those Black children up front at the stage (mere inches from Baba Hugh) didn't realize they were in the presence of Afrikan musical royalty. There were witnessing an Afrikan unicorn genius and were bored.
My Twin daughters at their ages would have attempted climb up on stage to dance with him... Me too!!!

I got to see him perform/meet him in person and have dinner with him when he performed in Texas some years ago.

He was such a welcoming, open, gifted and "regular" Blacktastique man!!!
I luv to see him dance as much as I luv his music! Baba Hugh was/is so inspirational and precious!!!

tiwantiwaabibiman
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One of the best African. Music..Rest in peace Bra Hugh..you left a legacy for South Africans.. ❤❤

BelindaMpande
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the way he graces that flugelhorn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Rest in Power Legend!!!!

petjelepipi
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"The Energy, Concentration, Passion, Focus, The comes out the sound...Hugh my Hero

seancaresdesignsseancaresd
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Hit a like of you love all his live shows

jamesogao
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We're still in it, and I can't believe I'll be telling my unborn child about this legend for as long as I live because his music is ageless.

philazisibisi
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This musical arrangement is just perfect. The guitar drove things but the humans on the keys are musical geniuses.

ifeoluwadada
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the melody played by the guitar in the can sing it all day 💕💕💕💕💕😍😍😍👌👌👌👌

TheSilentInvestor
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What a voice🎉what a gift and talent 🎉Thank you for sharing your gift with world🎉

BettyKobusingye
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This version of Chileshe hits home! Legend!

phathisaningwenya
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We need his archives in a Sourh African Museum.

OmphileMohapi-dyyw
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That solo gave me goosebumps. This was talent on a whole different level.

tembakemoengbw
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One of the greatest Trumpeters of all times Hugh Masakela 🎺

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