#Hugh Masekela

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HUGH MASEKELA - Maesha

Alb. "Home Is Where The Music Is" (1972)

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Hugh!

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1967.

Hugh Masekela covers Pet Sounds.

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1967 Hugh Masekela & The Byrds

The Magic Mountain Music Festival

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When - Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz, 1973)

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Jazz (We’ve got)

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Charlie Smalls, photographed by Martha Swope, circa 1974, via NYPL I've been a fan of Charlie Smalls ever since first seeing John Cassavetes' FACES, which includes his great "Never Felt Like This Before." The amount of information about him out there before his work on THE WIZ is thin: backed Harry Belafonte and Hugh Maskela (check out his piano on "Felicade"); appeared on the Monkees tv show; recorded one single under the group name C. Smalls & Co. With a little further digging I've found that the group included vocalists Nancy Whalley King and John Richardson, plus session legends Jim Keltner on drums and Wilton Felder on bass. According to an article in the November 2, 1968, Michigan Chronicle, the Queens-born Smalls attended PS1, then Music & Art and Juilliard, and then played in the 379th Air Force band. ("I wasn't very good on the M-1," so they let me play glockenspiel full-time.") In the mid-60s, he played regularly at Steve Paul's club, The Scene, which was also a hotbed for early jazz-rock experiments.

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Hugh Masekela is a giant of jazz and a pioneer in bringing the voice and spirit of Africa to the West, but his wild and moving tale transcends the world of music. A South African exile, he landed in New York, where he was adopted by bebop heroes like Dizzy Gillespie, and soon fell, headfirst, into the raucous swirl of 1960s America. During the thirty-year pilgrimage that followed, he stumbled into adventure after adventure, whether battling Don King over the Rumble in the Jungle concert, finding himself on the wrong side of revolutions all over West Africa, loving some of the most beautiful and volatile women in the world, or battling for the destruction of apartheid. When he finally returned to a free South Africa, he found the strength to confront the personal demons that tracked him around the world and discovered a new measure of peace at home. Unfolding against one of the most inspiring political transformations of the twentieth century, this is the engrossing chronicle of a remarkable, one-of-a-kind musical life.

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Hanif Abdurraqib's essay is so carefuly woven. The whole series of Lost Notes on 1980 looks great. I have only listen to this post. It moved me.

My memory seems unrealible, sometimes I check things out. Last Tuesday I was searching for the reports of the announcement that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison in February of 1990 because I remember.

In 1990 I had graduated and got my teaching credentials. I was doing an internship at an environmental learning center in western Pennsylvania. And I had signed up for a big job fair across the state near Philadelphia. At the environmental center, the night before the job fair the environmental center was hosting Damian Randle who had founded Green Teacher Magazine. I was especially excided to meet him because of his connection with Centre For Alternative Technolgy near Machynlleth Wales.

I stayed for Randle's presentation and drove the night through to the job fair. In my gut I knew teaching wasn't for me, but it still took a while for that realization to dawn on me. So I suffered bleary-eyed through multiple interviews at the job fair. I didn't click with anybody there. Leaving the conference center and retriving my car I turned on the radio as I tried to get my bearings. The news was that Nelson Mandela would be released from prsion. I was a bit incredulous, but the news shot electricity through my body.

There are reasons to hope and the struggle continues.

Hanif Abdueeaqib

[surebabyholdback]

Ghost lover, hold my hand

Flash flood warning and the taste of sand goes

Ghost lover, push against my back

The grass is green where the sidewalk cracks

I know it’s you, enganjyani

It was always you

Enganjyani

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Hugh Masekela, jazz.

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Hugh Masekela-Grazing In The Grass

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Rekpete - Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz, 1973)