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Adam Greenberg of AllMusic stated: "Presumably to commemorate Studio album by Hugh Masekela
Tools his 60th birthday, Hugh Masekela released an album of primarily Released June 13, 2000
What links here African works. The album starts with a tribute to Fela, a kindred Studio Down Town Studio, Johannesburg,
Related changes spirit in African horn playing and a friend of Masekela. After that, it South Africa, BOP Recording
Special pages moves on through a number of traditional songs and trips down Studios, Mmabatho, South Africa.
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something of a contemporary Harry Belafonte-esque sound (which Length 1:10:07
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perhaps might not be completely surprising, given the repeated Label Shanachie Records Shanachie 5070
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collaborations between Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, coupled with Producer Don Laka
Print/export Masekela's marriage to Makeba). Despite (or due to) any such Hugh Masekela chronology
Download as PDF similarities that may arise, this is international pop at its best."[6] The Best of Black to the Grazing in the
Hugh Masekela Future Grass
Languages Chris Wodskou of Exclaim! wrote: "Hugh Masekela’s 60th birthday
on Novus (2000) (2001)
Add links is cause for celebration, but perhaps the best way to observe this (1999)
milestone would be to reflect back on his storied career, not to pick
up the CD that commemorates his birthday. A giant in the greatly
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underrated South African jazz scene of the ’60s who went on to
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international renown in world music circles in the ’70s and ’80s,
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Masekela’s latest has him in a somewhat complacent frame of
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mind, keeping the heat on low and his signature funky
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [1]
undertones tepid."[7]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz [3]

Track listing [edit]

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Fela" Remi Kabaka, Hugh Masekela 5:35
2. "Thanayi" Hugh Masekela 5:27
3. "Shango" Remi Kabaka, Hugh Masekela 5:31
4. "Mamoriri" Don Laka, Traditional 4:20
5. "Mbombela" Welcome Duru 5:27
6. "Mgewundini" Martha Mdenge 5:18
7. "Nomalizo" Victor Ntoni 6:31
8. "Bo Masekela" Caiphus Semenya 5:20
9. "Tamati So So" Hugh Masekela, Traditional 7:26
10. "Ziphi 'Nkomo" Letta Mbulu, Caiphus Semenya 6:49
11. "Lizzy" Hugh Masekela 6:13
12. "Been Such a Long Time Gone" Hugh Masekela 4:32
13. "Koshana" Don Laka 1:38
Total length: 01:10:07
References [edit]

1. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Omnibus Press. p. 1203. ISBN 978-0-85712-
595-8. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
2. ^ "Sixty" . AllMusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
3. ^ Cook, Richard. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Cook, Richard . p. 862. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
4. ^ Mojapelo, Max (2008). Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African
Music . African Minds. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-920299-28-6. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
5. ^ "Hugh Masekela - Biography" . Amoeba Music. amoeba.com. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
6. ^ "Sixty" . Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
7. ^ Wodscou, Chris (November 1, 1999). "Hugh Masekela Sixty" . exclaim.ca. Retrieved 4 May 2019.

External links [edit]

Official website

v · t· e Hugh Masekela
Trumpet Africaine (1962) · Grrr (1966) · Hugh Masekela's Next Album (1966) ·
The Emancipation of Hugh Masekela (1966) · Hugh Masekela's Latest (1967) ·
The Promise of a Future (1968) · Africa '68 (1968) · Masekela (1969) · Reconstruction (1970) ·
Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa (1971) · Home Is Where the Music Is (1972) ·
Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (1973) · I Am Not Afraid (1974) · The Boy's Doin' It (1975) · Colonial Man
Studio albums
(1976) · Melody Maker · You Told Your Mama Not to Worry (1977) · Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela
(1978) · Home (1982) · Techno-Bush (1984) · Waiting for the Rain (1985) · Tomorrow (1987) ·
Uptownship (1989) · Beatin' Aroun de Bush (1992) · Notes of Life (1996) · Black to the Future (1998) ·
Sixty (2000) · Time (2002) · Revival (2005) · Almost Like Being in Jazz (2005) · Phola (2009) · Jabulani
(2012) · Friends (2012) · Playing @ Work (2012) · No Borders (2016) · Rejoice (2020)
Stimela (1994) · The Best of Hugh Masekela on Novus (1999) ·
Compilation albums Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela (2001) · The Collection (2003) · Still Grazing (2004) ·
The Chisa Years: 1965–1975 (Rare and Unreleased) (2006)
The Americanization of Ooga Booga (1966) · Hugh Masekela Is Alive and Well at the Whisky (1967) ·
Live albums The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela (1968) · Main Event Live (1978) · Hope (1994) ·
Live at the BBC (2002) · Live at the Market Theatre (2007)
Singles "Up-Up and Away" · "Grazing in the Grass" · "Skokiaan"

Books Still Grazing (2004)

Categories: 2000 albums Hugh Masekela albums

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