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Summary: Long live Africa
Comment: It's funky, it's passionate, it's African, it's jazz. Turn this up loud and listen, especially the last track "Stimela". Excellent recording of a wonderful live event.
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Summary: Great Live Recording...
Comment: I stumbled onto this album in a Tower store years ago. I've since listened to it many, many times. I agree that Hugh's not too esoteric here and the quality of the live recording is spectacular. This is a great first album for anyone wanting to sample Hugh Masakela.
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Summary: His best cuts here are rooted in marabe traditions.
Comment: Hugh Masakela crosses over into pop and mixes South African music with pop and his usual jazz roots: this makes him much more accessible than the usual jazz trumpet work - and makes his latest cd HOPE shine.
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Summary: Live genius
Comment: This album of well known South African songs was recorded live at the Blues Alley in Washington with an array of great South African jazz musicians like Themba Mkize, Lawrence Matshiza and Bakithi Khumalo. Masekela is a master of the horn, his virtuosity brilliantly demonstrated on the brilliant tracks Stimela (Train), Grazin' In The Grass and Ntyilo Ntyilo. Other standout track tracks include Nomali, Marketplace, Fela Kuti's Lady and the Miriam Makeba composition Abangoma. The atmosphere is wonderful and the rhythms are superb. This warm, heartfelt music should appeal to all lovers of jazz and African crossover music. I wish I were there.
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Summary: Ideal Setting for Masekela's High Life Revue
Comment: Whoever's responsible at Triloka for recording South African Flugelhorn master Hugh Masekela in this setting deserves highest praise. Talk about deep grooves . . . his U of SA band kicks butt up one side and down the other. Recording him live was a good move, too.Even anachronistic numbers like "Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)," with its hopelessly sentimental lyrics celebrating Nelson Mandela walking the streets of Soweto with his soon-to-be divorced wife, Winnie, seem somehow right: the musical truth is larger than shopworn politics, no matter how just the cause.
Township jazz, performed at some kind of musical Nirvana, is the order of day here, and never has it sounded better. If you have even the slightest affinty for this transcendent music, this is your record.
