Hugh Masekela News

Verve: Remixed projects have done it again. The third volume in the series takes things up a notch by not only employing the skills of top DJs, but also some indie rock and hip-hop artists as well.

Release Date: October 27, 2009 Jazz with a global twist! Original songs and jazz standards performed by musicians from Cuba to Cameroon.

South African musician Hugh Masekela's life story is one of exile and homecoming and the eventual triumph of the human spirit over the crushing effects of apartheid.

THERE was a time legendary African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, now 70, didn't sing, preferring to play trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet and trombone.

"Disfarmer" is a tour de force of jazz creativity by Bill Frisell. Inspired by the stark photography of Mike Disfarmer that captured the spirit of "American Gothic" in the Ozarks of the late 1930s and early '40s, Frisell uses a variety of electric and acoustic guitars and electronic effects to create a profoundly eerie merger of old-timey mountain ...

Hartford's exceptional Pork Pie Hat Jazz Series this fall presents nine concerts featuring such legendary masters as drummer Al Foster and pianist Cedar Walton .

Joining "Bra Hugh" on stage are a seven-piece Choir together with long time friend, ex Sankomota leader and Gospel soloist, Tsepo "The Village Pope" Tshola and guest violinist, Tsepo Mngoma .

Welcome Duru, a prominent South African song writer - or "Bra Wella as he was affectionately known, has been laid to rest at the Papenkuils Cemetery in Port Elizabeth.

South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela faces legal action over the non-payment of a R6-million loan from state finance institution the Industrial Development Corporation.

The screaming conjoined twin of The Rumble in the Jungle, the Zaire '74 music concert was the collective progeny of promoters Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine and boxing-world demagogue Don King.

Mulatu Astatke just released a new album with The Heliocentrics. WDUQ, July 6, 2009 - Jazz was born in America in the early 20th century, evolving out of a meeting of African and European music traditions.

Chichester Festivities will be hoping the sun shines this evening when the Festival kicks off with its traditional curtain-raiser a ' a fireworks concert at Goodwood Racecourse.

The Confederations Cup football championship has kicked off in Johannesburg in South Africa.

Andy Hamilton's Hat of Doom. Jokes, stories, gossip, nudity and trampolining with the comedian and creator of Drop The Dead Donkey, Outnumbered and Old Harry's Game.

Here's what I'm planning to play on the Jazz Connection tonight - Monday 18 May - on Radio Cardiff 98.7: Hugh Masekela a ' Saduva Martin Speake a ' Diverse Lee Jones a ' Cookin' on Gas I'm also hoping to reveal some details about the star attractions booked for this year's Brecon Jazz Festival - the organisers have promised me the info in time for ...

Here's what I'm planning to play on my monthly edition of the Jazz Connection for south Wales valleys station GTFM tonight - Thursday 14 May: John Law's Art of Sound a ' Congregation Andy Sheppard a ' Bing Sax Appeal a ' PTB Madeleine Peyroux a ' Love and Treachery Maceo Parker a ' ABC Keith Little Band a ' Jumpin' At The Woodside Diana Krall a ' ...

"I think it is incumbent, not just on every artist, but every person who has as their source communities that are disadvantaged, to give back," says Hugh Masekela, antiapartheid champion, friend of the downtrodden and musician extraordinaire who is still going strong at the age of 70.

Hugh Masekela, great South African trumpeter, composer, and long-time anti-apartheid campaigner, certainly knows how to make an entrance.

In 1953, in a poor school for black children in Johannesburg, there was an encounter that would turn out to be momentous for South African music.

Here are the top acts and a few lesser-known finds at Jazz Fest today. Crowd pleasers Dave Matthews Band will likely draw a huge crowd to the Acura Stage on Sunday.