Hugh Masekela

[The Star]Last Thursday music lovers got enjoy a musical evening with Ghanaian's award-winning female artiste, Efya. She gave a sterling performance with a great Africa Nominee band at Carnivore restaurant, Nairobi, thanks to Tusker Lite's Club 100. She enticed the audience who listened and danced the night away to an array of her songs,including Best In Me, Never Again, The Gateaway, A Moment's Notice, Nothing, and Obianuju. South Africa's Jazz maestro, Hugh Masekela once referred to Efya as being a vibrant version

[The Star]Last Thursday music lovers got enjoy a musical evening with Ghanaian’s award-winning female artiste, Efya. She gave a sterling performance with a great Africa Nominee band at Carnivore restaurant, Nairobi, thanks to Tusker Lite's Club 100. She enticed the audience who listened and danced the night away to an array of her songs,including Best In Me, Never Again, The Gateaway, A Moment’s Notice, Nothing, and Obianuju. South Africa’s Jazz maestro, Hugh Masekela once referred to Efya

This week's Jazz Scene calendar leads off with the duo of Richard Galliano and Christian Howes at Dizzy's. Also on the bill: John Scofield and Mike Stern at Dizzy's, Hugh Masekela at the Schimmel Center, and more.

This week's Jazz Scene calendar leads off with the duo of Richard Galliano and Christian Howes at Dizzy's. Also on the bill: John Scofield and Mike Stern at Dizzy's, Hugh Masekela at the Schimmel Center, and more.

Wayne Shorter, Hugh Masekela and Sonny Rollins will perform at the 21st London Jazz Festival in 2013.

"I was a good boy," South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela assures NPR's Michel Martin.

The South African trumpeter is one of the giants of African music. Over his long career, he pioneered jazz fusion and even managed to bump the Rolling Stones from the U.S. charts. Still, at age 74, he says, "I feel like I'm just beginning."

The South African musician Hugh Masekela shows no sign of letting up in his battle against injustice.

Victor Kunonga's Album Cover Handinete UNTIL last week, for this writer, mention of the name Victor Kunonga conjured up images of South African jazz maestros Hugh Masekela and Dollar Brand. ...

[The Herald]UNTIL last week, for this writer, mention of the name Victor Kunonga conjured up images of South African jazz maestros Hugh Masekela and Dollar Brand. So not being exactly a jazz fan, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched him perform at the Book Café on Friday night.

Veteran trumpeter Hugh Masekela followed in Archbishop Desmond Tutu's footsteps in being honoured with a ?Keepers of the Flame? award at the African American Church Inaugural Ball on Sunday night.

[Daily Trust]Calabar -Senegalese American R&B and hip hop recording artist Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam, simply known as Akon, and legendary South African trumpeter, composer and singer Hugh Masekela will lead a star-studded list of international and local musicians to perform at this year's Calabar Festival starting today.

[Vanguard]THE other Wednesday night I was sharing a table with South African music icon, Mr. Hugh Masekela, Bra Hugh as everybody in Jo'burg calls him.

After the announcement of Womad headliners Jimmy Cliff and Hugh Masekela a few weeks back, the rest of the three-day festival's line-up was revealed last night.

Jimmy Cliff and South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela are the first of the international acts announced for next year’s Womadelaide Festival in Australia.

South African trumpet payer Hugh Masekela has been named as one of the headliners of next year's Womad festival.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]It was a spectacle to watch the great African legend perform to the amazement of Ghanaians who turned out in their numbers to witness a fantastic show of talented musicians at the Banquet Hall, State House, Accra.

I had been making records with Hugh Masekela since the early 1960s. We'd got this African-American hybrid going, and were always looking for ways to get more western exposure to African music: it really was the dark ages in awareness terms.

[SACSIS]The story of Marikana runs much deeper than an inter-union spat. After the horror of watching people being massacred on television, Marikana now joins the ranks of the Bulhoek and Sharpeville massacres, and the images evoked by Hugh Masekela's Stimela, in the odious history of a method of capital accumulation based on violence.

Olympus Pictures and Paul Haggis’ Hwy 61 announced today it is moving forward with a father-son project inspired by the relationship between ESPN sports commentator Selema “Sal” Masekela  and his father Hugh Masekela , the jazz musician featured on Paul Simon’s Graceland album and South African apartheid activist who was exiled for more than 30 years. South African filmmaker Mukunda Michael Dewil has been hired to write and direct the film. The project follows a son emerging out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa’s racism. The untitled Masekela project will be produced by Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech of Olympus Pictures, Haggis and Michael Nozik of Hwy 61 Films, and Selema Masekela. “I first met Sal when he was a teenager working with his father on the Graceland tour,” said Urdang. “We met again many years later and the riveting narrative is a father/son story filled with surprise, danger, bravery, forgiveness, and lots of music.” Mukunda is a commercial director who wrote and directed Retribution and Vehicle 19 . He is also a surfer. Olympus Pictures, of course, is the independent production and finance company behind the upcoming The Oranges as well as John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman and Mike Mills’ Beginners which won a Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Plummer. This September, Olympus will debut its two most recent features at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival – Thanks for Sharing and Mr. Pip.

[Namibian]Namibian R&B singer, Ndeshi Shipanga recently represented Namibia at the BT River of Music Festival, held in London as part of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Paul Simon closed Hard Rock Calling festival last night 15 07 12 The You Can Call Me Al hitmaker played the whole of his seminal Graceland album at the event backed by trumpet player Hugh Masekela and South African male choir Ladysmith Black...

Queen of African music, for BT River of Music Angélique Kidjo is hooking up with Hugh Masekela and the Manchester World Voices Choir.

Many big names have already been announced for the event from July 27-29, including Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters, Jimmy Cliff, Hugh Masekela and Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo.

Many big names have already been announced for the event from July 27-29, including Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters, Jimmy Cliff, Hugh Masekela and Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo.

Many big names have already been announced for the event from July 27-29 including Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters, Jimmy Cliff, Hugh Masekela and Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo.

Many big names have already been announced for the event from July 27-29 including Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters, Jimmy Cliff, Hugh Masekela and Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo.