Hope [Import]

Hugh Masekela | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Triloka Records
• ASIN: B00005YUFK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,567 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #9 in Music > World Music > Africa > South Africa
  • #63 in Music > World Music > Africa > General AAS
  • #66 in Music > World Music > Africa > General

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal Setting for Masekela's High Life Revue, July 29, 2002

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hope (Audio CD)

Whoever's responsible at Triloka for recording South African Flugelhorn master Hugh Masekela in this setting deserves highest praise. Talk about deep grooves . . . his U of SA band kicks butt up one side and down the other. Recording him live was a good move, too.

Even anachronistic numbers like "Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)," with its hopelessly sentimental lyrics celebrating Nelson Mandela walking the streets of Soweto with his soon-to-be divorced wife, Winnie, seem somehow right: the musical truth is larger than shopworn politics, no matter how just the cause.

Township jazz, performed at some kind of musical Nirvana, is the order of day here, and never has it sounded better. If you have even the slightest affinty for this transcendent music, this is your record.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Live genius, July 27, 2004

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hope (Audio CD)

This album of well known South African songs was recorded live at the Blues Alley in Washington with an array of great South African jazz musicians like Themba Mkize, Lawrence Matshiza and Bakithi Khumalo. Masekela is a master of the horn, his virtuosity brilliantly demonstrated on the brilliant tracks Stimela (Train), Grazin' In The Grass and Ntyilo Ntyilo. Other standout track tracks include Nomali, Marketplace, Fela Kuti's Lady and the Miriam Makeba composition Abangoma. The atmosphere is wonderful and the rhythms are superb. This warm, heartfelt music should appeal to all lovers of jazz and African crossover music. I wish I were there.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars His best cuts here are rooted in marabe traditions., September 1, 2004

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WorldDiscoveries.Net "Bill Donovan, Reviewer" (Petaluma, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hope (Audio CD)

Hugh Masakela crosses over into pop and mixes South African music with pop and his usual jazz roots: this makes him much more accessible than the usual jazz trumpet work - and makes his latest cd HOPE shine.