Masekela ‎– Tomorrow

Masekela ‎– Tomorrow
Label: WEA – 254 573-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Future Jazz, Electro
Tracklist
A1 Bring Him Back Home 4:41
Producer – Don Freeman, Geoff Haslam
Written-By – Michael Timothy, Tim Daly
Written-By, Producer – Hugh Masekela
A2 Mayibuye 6:32
Written-By, Producer – Don Freeman, Hugh Masekela
A3 Ke Bale 5:25
Producer – Don Freeman, Geoff Haslam
Written-By – Tsepo Tshola
Written-By, Producer – Hugh Masekela
A4 London Fog 7:19
Producer – Don Freeman, Geoff Haslam
Written-By – Hugh Masekela, Jabu Moatha-Masekela
B1 Everybody's Standing Up 6:44
Producer – Geoff Haslam
Written-By – Michael Timothy, Tim Daly
Written-By, Producer – Don Freeman, Hugh Masekela
B2 Bird On The Wing 8:05
Producer – Geoff Haslam
Written-By – Bill Lovelady
Written-By, Producer – Hugh Masekela
B3 Something For Nothing 5:49
Producer – Don Freeman, Geoff Haslam
Written-By – Michael Timothy, Tim Daly
Written-By, Producer – Hugh Masekela
B4 Serengeti 5:16
Producer – Don Freeman, Geoff Haslam
Written-By – John Selolwane, Mopati Tsienyane
Written-By, Producer – Hugh Masekela
Real Name:
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela
Profile:
Hugh Masekela (born Johannesburg, April 4, 1939) is a South African flugelhorn and cornet player. In 1961, as part of the anti-apartheid campaign, he was exiled to the United States where he was befriended by Harry Belafonte. He has played primarily in jazz ensembles, with guest appearances on albums by The Byrds and Paul Simon. In 1987, he had a hit single with "Bring Him Back Home" which became an anthem for the movement to free Nelson Mandela. After apartheid ended, Masekela returned to South Africa where he now lives.
Hugh Masekela was an old collaborator of Abdullah Ibrahim. He is reported to have been initially inspired in his musical growth by Trevor Huddleston, a British priest working in the South African townships who financed Masekela's first trumpet. Masekela played his way through the vibrant Sophiatown scene with The Jazz Epistles and to Britain with King Kong, to find himself in New York in the early 1960s. He had hits in the United States with the pop jazz tunes "Up, Up and Away" and the number one smash "Grazin' in the Grass".
A renewed interest in his African roots led him to collaborate with West and Central African musicians, and finally to reconnect with South African players when he set up a mobile studio in Botswana, just over the South African border, in the 1980s. Here he re-absorbed and re-used mbaqanga strains, a style he has continued to use since his return to South Africa in the early 1990s.
Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Guitar – Bill Lovelady
Bass – Aubrei Oaki
Drums – Clive "Mayuyu" Mngaza, Richard Stevens
Drums, Vocals – Mopati "Bully" Tsienyane
Engineer – Peter Wooliscroft
Engineer [Assistent] – Wendy Girven
Featuring [With] – Kalahari
Keyboards, Synthesizer – Michael Timothy
Keyboards, Synthesizer [Bass], Saxophone, Flute – Don Freeman
Lead Guitar, Guitar, Backing Vocals – John B "Longwe" Selolwane
Percussion, Congas – Francis Fuster
Rhythm Guitar – Banjo T Mosele
Tenor Saxophone – Mark Millington
Trombone – Michael Osapanin
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion, Vocals – Hugh Masekela
Vocals – Sonti Mndebele
Vocals [Additional] – Beverley Skeete, Patricia Knight, Tsepo Tshola, Tu Nokwe
Notes
Recorded in London between January and September 1986.

Price: 10.- €