I was a bit aware of Hugh Masekela from following Graceland of Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Brenda Fassie and others.
But the other day I listened to Stimela in a wonderful system of dCS, D’Agostino and Wilson’s Sashas. It was sublime, magnificent. It ignited my interest in Hugh Masekela again.
I have the perception that he went from tribe musician and freedom fighter to very sophisticated trumpet jazz player. I can somehow connect to the places of Hugh’s life and understand his story, which is fascinating.
So playing Hope because I had to buy this CD and it arrived this week.
I was away when the “new” Red and Blues came out, so I’m going to listen via Amazon Ultra HD/BluOS 4 to see what all the fuss is about. Starting at the beginning…
With all this activity going on about the release of The Complete Budakan I just had to put on my old original Japanese copy! Sadly the Obi is long gone.
One of my all time favourite albums
It’s a wonderful album, the live Stimela is fantastic music & demo quality. I don’t know if you’ve seen/own this 3CD compilation but it’s cheap, contains the original Stimela & arguably finds Masekela at his rootsy best with much on CD for the first time. Wouldn’t normally butt in like this so apologies for that but the 3CD set is such a bargain.
