Hugh Masekela's 80th Birthday

Today the Search Engine @Google is celebrating Hugh Masekela's 80th Birthday with Google Doodle in US, UK, South Africa and few other countries. Happy Birthday Hugh Masekela 🎺🎺🎺 😊 Visit https://t.co/eMStzSopio to share the link and celebrate with us! 🎺 #HughMasekela80th pic.twitter.com/wTkb5h8AU7

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jazz trumpeter #HughMasekela

At JazzWax, a look at the extraordinary life of jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela... https://t.co/9cItrDtrSU pic.twitter.com/WzyiKhTs83

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Hugh Masekela at Carnival City

Don't miss Jazz Legends with Hugh Masekela at Carnival City in June - Boksburg Advertiser https://t.co/pzV3MTqhJJ

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Hugh Masekela at Carnival City

Don't miss Jazz legends with Hugh Masekela at Carnival City - Kempton Express https://t.co/pMb6CaXL7v

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Hugh Masekela 'Bajabula Bonke'

Hugh Masekela 'Bajabula Bonke' Live at The Jazz FM Awards 2015 https://t.co/AaE53dBRAb via @YouTube

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First listen: Hugh Masekela

First listen: Hugh Masekela new album -https://t.co/Ai40EWXnZU

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Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis "Abangoma"

Hugh Masekela, A Tribute To Floyd Leflore, Moon Hooch ....

Hugh Masekela, A New Look For Jazz At The Bistro, A Tribute To Floyd Leflore, Moon Hooch

SOURCE: ST. LOUIS JAZZ NOTES BY DEAN MINDERMAN, Published: 2014-10-03
It's another busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with the big news story being the re-opening of the renovated and expanded Jazz at the Bistro with two sold-out performances - one tonight for subscribers and VIPs, the other tomorrow for the general ticket-buying public - by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Though both nights have been sold out for weeks, if you don't have tickets already, you still can watch the performances streamed live over the Internet; see this post for details.

Elsewhere around town tonight, guitarist Brian Vaccaro's trio is playing a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University; guitarist Dave Black and friends are at Nathalie's; and over on the east side of the Mississippi, saxophonist Jason Swagler will perform his faculty recital at Dunham Hall on the SIU Edwardsville campus.

On Friday, Lindy Hop St. Louis will present their monthly “West End Stomp" at the Mahler Ballroom, this month featuring music for dancing by Sarah Jane and the Blue Notes. For more danceable music that evening, you can check out the Original Knights of Swing at the Casa Loma Ballroom, or Miss Jubilee at BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups.

Those in more of a listening mood on Friday night can catch pianist Brad Ellebrecht's quartet with singer Diane Vaughn at the Ozark Theatre, or guitarist Tom Byrne and singer Erika Johnson dueting at the downtown location of Robust Wine Bar.


On Saturday, famed trumpeter/flugelhornist Hugh Masekela (pictured) and fellow South African, singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela, will perform in celebration of “20 Years of Freedom" at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Although the program's historical theme no doubt will guide most of the evening's musical selections, it's hard to imagine that Masekela won't be able work “Grazing In The Grass" in there somewhere.
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Hugh Masekela & his Group (4/17)

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South African trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer Hugh Masekela, a two times Grammy awarded artist and Africa´s most important jazz and world musician. He has covered the globe and played with just about every top star there is. Masekela wrote a number of international hits and even topped "Jumping Jack Flash" by the Rolling Stones with "Grazing in the Grass" in the US charts. Another very popular song of Hugh Masekela called "Bring Him Back Home" became the anthem for Nelson Mandala's world tour following his release from prison.

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Hugh Masekela with Paul Simon

Hugh Masekela Amid Cup Fervor, Revisiting Pain of Apartheid

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 pop appeal of Grazing, Masekelas larger body of music reflected the agony, conflict and exploitation South Africa dealt with. Our paths finally crossed last week. In conjunction with the World Cup, Masekela was in Manhattan to review the final edits of an ESPN documentary about his journey to South Africa with his son, Sal.

The piece is called Umlando, which is Zulu for Through My Fathers Eyes. It was shot over two weeks, and will be presented as a series of four-minute spots that will be broadcast during the World Cup, before and after matches. Some of the chapters are political, some are biographical each one is breathtaking. And nothing can duplicate the experience of watching a documentary about Masekela with Masekela.

The thread connecting these pieces is the spirit of handing down: father taking his son back to South Africa, introducing him to townships and villages, filling him in on the history of his country. In one shot, Masekela laments the scourge of AIDS, which has become the new apartheid, wiping out generations of young black South Africans.

He smiles as he watches himself interact with schoolchildren, dancing, playing his horn, exhorting students to keep their spirit, cautioning them against engaging in irresponsible sex.
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