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| 1. | Abangoma (The Healers)
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| 2. | Uptownship
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| 3. | Mandela (Bring Him Back Home!)
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| 4. | Grazing in the Grass
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| 5. | Lady
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| 6. | Until When
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| 7. | Languta
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| 8. | Nomali
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| 9. | Marketplace
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| 10. | Ntyilo Ntyilo (The Love Bird)
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| 11. | Ha le Se (The Dowry Song)
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| 12. | Stimela [The Coal Train]
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Jazz
Hugh Masekela - Flugelhorn, Mixing, Producer, Song Notes, Trumpet
Bakithi Khumalo - Bass, Vocals
Ballederos Hornas Africanos DeTownsheep - Vocals (Background)
Damon Duewhite - Drums
Lawrence Matshiza - Guitar, Vocals
Ngenekhaya Mahlanghu - Flute, Percussion, Saxophone, Vocals
Remi Kabaka - Percussion, Vocals
Themba Mkhize - Keyboards, Vocals
* Bernie Kirsch - Mixing, Mixing Engineer
* Darren Mora - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
* David Hewitt - Engineer
* Gene Paul - Mastering
* Jackie Sallow - Photography
* John Oshima - Production Assistant
* K.D. Kagel - Executive Producer, Mixing, Producer
* Mitchell Markus - Executive Producer
* Paul A. Sloman - Executive Producer
* Phil Gitomer - Assistant Engineer
* Robert Read - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
* Ryan Hewitt - Assistant Engineer
* Sean McClintock - Assistant Engineer
Now happily resettled in South Africa, Masekela assembled a seven-piece group there and recorded an informal guided tour of his life and repertoire live in Washington D.C.'s Blues Alley. The songs stretch over a period of nearly five decades and several countries and composers - from an incantory Alexandria township tune, "Languta," which he learned in 1947, to a fairly ordinary piece written by keyboardist Themba Mkhize in 1993, "Until When." "Abangoma" starts the CD out on the right track, harkening back to the early fusion of African music and jazz that Hugh was playing back in 1966. "Bring Him Back Home" may have lost its political raison d'etre by 1993, but it remains a good tune, and the band plays it with enthusiasm. Yet Masekela's biggest hit, "Grazing in the Grass," sounds a bit tired in this live rendition. There are two songs by the prolific South African composer Caiphus Semenya, "Nomali" and the driving "Ha Le Se," and the late Nigerian idol Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is represented by "Lady." Clearly the resolution of the political struggle in South Africa had mellowed Masekela; he sounds happier, perhaps less fiery, certainly more polished and refined on the trumpet and flugelhorn than when he started out. But when you hear his bitter narration on "Stimela," describing the life of formerly conscripted coal miners, you suspect that not all of the old wounds have healed.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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