Hugh Masekela - Live at the Market theatre
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South African flugelhorn, trumpet, and cornet virtuoso Hugh Masekela , founder member of the legendary Jazz Epistles, exiled and associated with names such as Yehudi Menuhin, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Harry Belefonte, Miriam Makeba (his ex-wife), Herb Alpert, and Paul Simon, is a music legend. He achieved mainstream hits such as "Grazing In The Grass," and, later on, his South African-born musical, Sarafina, achieved iconic status. The present two-disc release brings him full circle, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Johannesburg's Market Theatre, which was an important crucible of the anti-apartheid movement. Backed by a swinging team of local players, Masekela is in great form, sounding far more jazzy and less adult-contemporary than in years gone by. An exile no more, he is a seasoned elder statesman, moving easily between hometown mbaqanga and jive, through Fela-vintage Nigerian Afrobeat, while harking back to memories of classic New York and Cape Town grooves. Recording live without a net, Masekela has made a career-summing, essential recording.
First half
• Ibala Lam
• Boy's Doin' It
• Ashiko
• Ha le Se
• Stimela
• Lady
• Grazing in the Grass
• Mandela
Second half
• Thuma Mina
• Up Township
• Happy Mama
• District Six
• Market Place
• Khauleza
• Thanayi
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