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"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQ47h6S6p4

"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQ47h6S6p4

"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQ47h6S6p4

"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQ47h6S6p4

"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQ47h6S6p4

Hugh Masekela - Unhlanhia
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #HughMasekela

BLK JKS & ALEKESAM – The Boy’s Doin’ It

https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-alekesam-the-boys-doin-it/

Featuring Masekela’s son, Sal Masekela (aka ALEKESAM) and his nephew Selema, here’s an homage to the late musical icon Hugh Masekela, with a cover of his classic 1975 Afro-funk-rock “THE BOY’S DOIN’ IT!”

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Cover #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

BLK JKS & ALEKESAM – The Boy’s Doin’ It

https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-alekesam-the-boys-doin-it/

Featuring Masekela’s son, Sal Masekela (aka ALEKESAM) and his nephew Selema, here’s an homage to the late musical icon Hugh Masekela, with a cover of his classic 1975 Afro-funk-rock “THE BOY’S DOIN’ IT!”

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Cover #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

BLK JKS & ALEKESAM – The Boy’s Doin’ It

https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-alekesam-the-boys-doin-it/

Featuring Masekela’s son, Sal Masekela (aka ALEKESAM) and his nephew Selema, here’s an homage to the late musical icon Hugh Masekela, with a cover of his classic 1975 Afro-funk-rock “THE BOY’S DOIN’ IT!”

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Cover #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

BLK JKS & ALEKESAM – The Boy’s Doin’ It

https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-alekesam-the-boys-doin-it/

Featuring Masekela’s son, Sal Masekela (aka ALEKESAM) and his nephew Selema, here’s an homage to the late musical icon Hugh Masekela, with a cover of his classic 1975 Afro-funk-rock “THE BOY’S DOIN’ IT!”

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Cover #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

BLK JKS & ALEKESAM – The Boy’s Doin’ It

https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-alekesam-the-boys-doin-it/

Featuring Masekela’s son, Sal Masekela (aka ALEKESAM) and his nephew Selema, here’s an homage to the late musical icon Hugh Masekela, with a cover of his classic 1975 Afro-funk-rock “THE BOY’S DOIN’ IT!”

#70smusic #AfroFunk #Cover #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

Grazing In The Grass 🐏
#HughMasekela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDTYsgPwP1s

Coal Train – Hugh Masekela (live)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/coal-train-hugh-masekela-live/

“Coal Train (Stimela)” recorded at the “Freedom Beat” festival in June 1986.

The song, composed by Hugh Masekela in the 70s, speaks about local history and the migrant labour system around mines and reminds everyone that South Africa’s wealth and infrastructure was built on the back of labour from all over Africa. […]

#Apartheid #HughMasekela #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica

Hugh Masekela - Unhlanhia
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #HughMasekela

On 4 Apr 1939: #HughMasekela, South African trumpeter, described as the "father of South African jazz" ("Grazing in the Grass"; "Soweto Blues"; Sarafina!), and anti-apartheid activist, born in Witbank, South Africa (d. 2018).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🥀

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

Grazing In The Grass 🐏
#HughMasekela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_S3QOJk90

On the 23rd of January 2018: #HughMasekela, South African trumpeter, described as the "father of South African jazz" ("Grazing in the Grass"; "Soweto Blues"; Sarafina!), and anti-apartheid activist died of prostate cancer at 78.
#RIP 🥀🪦⚰️

Grazing In The Grass 🌽
#HughMasekela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZF60EPdM

Hugh Masekela – Grazing in the Grass (live)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-grazing-grass/

Grazing in the Grass for the Fifa Worldcup closing ceremony in 2010. For those who like a lot of cowbells in their music…

The song is found on Masekela‘s 8th studio album: “The Promise of a Future” in 1968. […]

#HughMasekela #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

The Chisa Years (1965-1975)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-chisa-years-1965-1975/

The Chisa Years: 1965–1975 (Rare and Unreleased) is a compilation album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela.

The album consists of 14 rare or forgotten tracks recorded by Stewart Levine and Hugh Masekela from 1965 to 1975 when they ran their own Chisa Records label. […]

#60smusic #70smusic #Compilation #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz

https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-introducing-hedzoleh-soundz/

Leader Stanley Todd Kwesi assembled a monster ensemble of musicians from the Ghana Arts Council, intending to form a new Afro-Rock group, known as Hedzoleh Soundz, that would be more traditional & African in sound, and hopefully surpass Osibisa in popularity (alas it was not to be).

Hedzoleh Soundz were a band from […]

#AfroFunk #Ghana #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow

Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa:
🎵 Dyambo

#HughMasekela #TheUnionofSouthAfrica

https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/dyambo-dee-yambo-weary-day-is-over

https://open.spotify.com/track/4oEt9Bo9l8op9Y3Jcxm86L

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tony-allen-hugh-masekela-lagos-never-gonna-be-same/

“Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same)” is a single taken from Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela’s very special collaboration “Rejoice“. In this track, Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela pay tribute to Fela Kuti.

#HughMasekela #Jazz #Nigeria #SouthAfrica #TonyAllen #AfroBeat

The Jazz Epistles – Verse 1

https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-jazz-epistles-vary-oo-vum/

Verse 1 by the Jazz Epistles in 1960 is “a genuine hard bop session, swinging and persuasive, coming out of South Africa in an era when black musicians weren’t making any recordings, let alone forward-looking modern jazz albums.”

[They] were South Africa’s first important (albeit short-lived) bebop band, inspired by Art Blakey [...]

#60smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

Hugh Masekela – Mace and Grenades / Riot

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mace-grenades-hugh-masekela-riot/

Here’s a 7″ released on Chisa in 1969 “Mace And Grenades / Riot”, directed by Stewart Levine and written by Masekela.
This is the soundtrack of an ongoing revolution.
Yep, Feelin’ it!

#60smusic #Apartheid #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #Vinyl #AfroJazz

Hugh Masekela – Night In Tunisia

https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-night-in-tunisia/

“Night in Tunisia” est l’un des morceaux extraits d’une compilation dédiée à Hugh Masekela “Township Grooves”, qui reprend des compositions datant des années 1965 à 1974.

C’est bien sûr une reprise de Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia”, ici en live en 1981. […]

#Cover #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_V3mg_7xlE

Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela – Soweto Blues

https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-hugh-masekela-soweto-blues/

Freedom song! Soweto Blues, released in 1977, is a protest song written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba.

The song is about the Soweto uprising that occurred in 1976, following the decision by the apartheid government of South Africa to make Afrikaans a medium of instruction [...]

#Apartheid #Documentary #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

Hugh Masekela – Bring Back Nelson Mandela

https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-bring-back-nelson-mandela/

“Bring Back Nelson Mandela” is one of Masekela’s composition at the time of apartheid in South Africa, as he was a clear anti-apartheid activist.

Also known as “Bring Him Back Home“, the song is an anthemic anti-apartheid protest song written by South African musician Hugh Masekela.

#Apartheid #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #QOTD #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic

Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa

https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-union-south-africa/

Jonas Gwangwa (1937 – 2021) was a genius trombone player from Soweto, South Africa. That’s him in the middle between 2 other South African geniuses, the late Hugh Masekela on the left, and Caiphus Semenya (born 1939), on the right, for their band Union of South Africa.

The album, released in May 1971, is […]

#70smusic #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

The Boy’s Doin’ It (1975)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/boys-doin-it-1975-masekela-fela-kuti/

The Boy’s Doin’ It is the 17th studio album by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, recorded in New York City and in Lagos, and released in June 1975.

So many incredible musicians on one album, dedicated to ‎Fela Kuti‬ and the women of the world: Okyerema Asante, Orlando Julius, the rhythm brothers Stanley & Frankie Todd, [...]

#FelaKuti #HughMasekela #Jazz #OrlandoJulius #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz

Letta MBulu – What Is Wrong With Groovin’?

https://amf.didiermary.fr/letta-mbulu-what-wrong-groovin/

Letta MBulu’s “What Is Wrong With Groovin’?” is a single released in 1967 and written by Hugh Masekela.

Letta is a South African jazz singer who left the country in 1964 to escape apartheid, with her husband Caiphus Semenya.They left South Africa for Los Angeles and worked with many (Jazz) musicians & composers […]

#HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz #60sMusic

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice

https://amf.didiermary.fr/rejoice-tony-allen-hugh-masekela/

When Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela met in the 70s, during Apartheid, they talked about recording together. They had to wait till 2010 to work together in the UK, but the sessions were unfortunately archived.

Finally, Rejoice has been released. After Masekela passed away in 2018, [...]

#FullAlbum #HughMasekela #Jazz #Nigeria #Remixed #SouthAfrica #TonyAllen #Afrobeat #AfroJazz

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Every Morning" is a song by American rock band #SugarRay, released as the #leadSingle from their third studio album, 14:59 (1999). The track is an #alternativeRock and #flamencoPop song that references #Malo's "#Suavecito" and #HughMasekela's "#GrazingInTheGrass". Serviced to US radio in December 1998, "Every Morning" was released in Japan in January 1999 and in the United States two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE

"Grazing in the Grass" is an #instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter #HughMasekela. Released in the United States as a single in 1968, it followed United States trumpeter #HerbAlpert's vocal performance of "#ThisGuysInLoveWithYou" to the top spot on the #Hot100 chart, ranking it as the 18th biggest hit of the year. The song also reached No. 15 Adult Contemporary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYrski71II

G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up - 09/09/24

I review a fantastic Hugh Masekela album, as well as LL Cool J's latest. I also drop my favorite videos from yesterday, including a Tiny Desk Korea featuring NMIXX

https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-09-09-24

#music #TinyDesk #TinyDeskKorea #nmixx #HughMasekela #LLCoolJ #kpop #HipHop #Jazz #1001albums

#HashtagGames
#YardAndLawnCareSlogans

Grazin' In The Grass is a gas, can you dig it?
#HughMasekela #FriendsOfDistinction

youtu.be/T_tffjrItC4?si=GVNxqj…

#HashTagGames
#RetroVideoGameASong

...just grazin' in the grass
...everything is so real so real so real so real can you DigDug it?
Can you DigDug it baby?

#FriendsOfDistinction
#RIP #HughMasekela

https://youtu.be/T_tffjrItC4?si=rAMa69K7WfkjevtG