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Masekela '66-'76
''Masekela'' is the eleventh studio album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela released via Uni Records label in 1969. Background The album was recorded in Los Angeles, possibly between 12 and 30 September 1968. Masekela performs mostly his own compositions. The tracks "Mace and Grenades" and "Gold" were later included on his 2004 album ''Still Grazing''. The track "Mace and Grenades" was issued as a single with "Riot" as the B-side. Track listing All tracks composed by Masekela unless indicated otherwise. Personnel The personnel probably included: * Hugh Masekela – trumpet, vocals * Wayne Henderson – trombone *Al Abreu – saxophone * Wilton Felder – saxophone * Bill Henderson – piano * Arthur Adams – guitar *Henry Franklin – bass *Chuck Carter – drums *Barry Feinstein Barry Feinstein (February 4, 1931 – October 20, 2011) was an American photographer and filmmaker, known for his photographs of 1950s Hollywood, the 1960s music scene, and his clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and " Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass". Early life Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was born in the township of KwaGuqa in Witbank (now called Emalahleni), South Africa, to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. His younger sister Barbara Masekela is a poet, educator and ANC activist. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the 1950 film '' Young Man with a Horn'' (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still Grazing (Hugh Masekela Album)
''Still Grazing'' is a 2004 compilation album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. The album is a retrospective collection of his compositions recorded over the period 1966–1974. The album is the soundtrack to Masekela’s autobiography of Still Grazing, the same name. Reception Eric Ianelli of ''All About Jazz'' wrote: "Musically speaking, ''Still Grazing'' is strong; but then, in making a case for Masekela's career, it ought to be. It starts off with 'Child of the Earth,' something of an acquired taste when it comes to vocals, and it features the vibrant 'Ha Lese Le Di Khanna' and the noteworthy cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'Felicidade,' all from ''The Emancipation of Hugh Masekela'' (1966). There is, of course, 'Grazing in the Grass,' and the equally rousing 'Up, Up, and Away (song), Up, Up, and Away.' Recorded in the early 1970s, 'Languta,' 'Been Such a Long Time Gone' and 'Stimela (Coal Train)' draw on reggae as much as jazz and Masekela's characteristic music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uni Records Albums
Uni or UNI may refer to: Entertainment *Uni Records, a division of MCA, formally called Universal City Records *"U.N.I.", a song by Ed Sheeran from ''+'' (''Plus'') *Uni, a species in the Neopets Trading Card Game *Uni, a character in the anime ''Reborn!'' *Uni, a character in the television series ''Dungeons and Dragons'' *Uni, a fictional character in the ''Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2'' video game Organizations *UNI Financial Cooperation, a Canadian credit union *Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione, an Italian technical standards organization *UNI global union, an international trade union federation * The University of Northern Iowa, a university in the United States * The National University of Engineering, a university in Peru * UNI, an alternative name for the Northern Iowa Panthers, the athletic program of the University of Northern Iowa *United News of India, an Indian news agency * National Union of Independents (other), the name of several political part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Albums
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ** Revere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Feinstein
Barry Feinstein (February 4, 1931 – October 20, 2011) was an American photographer and filmmaker, known for his photographs of 1950s Hollywood, the 1960s music scene, and his close personal and professional relationships with celebrities like Bob Dylan and Steve McQueen. Feinstein produced over 500 album covers, featuring his photographs and graphic designs. Early life Feinstein was born on 4 February 1931, in Philadelphia, the only child of Rose and David Feinstein. He enrolled at the University of Miami but left after a year, later joining the Coast Guard. Career In 1955, Feinstein worked at the Atlantic City Race Track. In 1955, Feinstein was engaged as an assistant photographer at ''Life'' magazine. In his late twenties, Feinstein was hired as a production intern at Columbia Pictures, later a studio photographer. He subsequently became a photographer in Hollywood, where he worked with Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Jayne Mansfield, and Steve McQueen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Franklin
Henry "Skipper" Franklin (born Henry Carl Franklin on October 1, 1940) is an American jazz double bassist. Career Franklin played on Hugh Masekela's 1968 number one single, "Grazing in the Grass," as well as with Masekela's band at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. In addition, Franklin played and recorded with Gene Harris and the Three Sounds, Hampton Hawes, Freddie Hubbard, Bobbi Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Archie Shepp, O.C. Smith, Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau, Curtis Amy, Teddy Edwards, and Sonny Criss. Franklin's recording—composed by Sanifu Al Hall, Jr.— "Soft Spirit" was featured on the Breakbeat compilation '' Tribe Vibes'' as it had been sampled by the musical group A Tribe Called Quest. Encouraged by his father, Sammy Franklin, a jazz trumpeter and bandleader, he studied with Al McKibbon and George Morrow, while listening to Paul Chambers and Doug Watkins. While attending the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, he played wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Adams (singer)
Arthur Adams (born December 25, 1943) is an American blues guitarist from Medon, Tennessee. Inspired by B.B. King and other 1950s artists, he played gospel music before attending college. He moved to Los Angeles, and during the 1960s and 1970s he released solo albums and worked as a session musician. In 1985 he was tapped to tour on bass guitar with Nina Simone, and he staged a comeback in the 1990s when he released ''Back on Track'', and became a respected Chicago blues player and bandleader in B.B. King's clubs. A prolific songwriter, with a blues style that incorporated a variety of genres, and a vocalist with a funky, soul-driven sound, Adams is known for his collaboration with many of blues' elite and continues to perform to date. Early life Arthur Adams was born on December 25, 1943, in Medon, Tennessee. At the age of six, he sang in the church choir, but did not begin playing the guitar until he was a teenager. In the mid-1950s, he learned the instrument from his mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Henderson (performer)
William Randall Henderson (March 19, 1926 – April 3, 2016) was an American jazz singer and actor in television and film. Biography Henderson was born in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson began his professional music career in 1952, performing in Chicago with Ramsey Lewis, and began recording as a leader after a move to New York in 1958. He subsequently recorded with jazz pianist Horace Silver on a vocal version of Silver's " Señor Blues" which was a jukebox hit (in the mid-1950s), and remains one of jazz label Blue Note's top-selling singles. Additionally, Henderson performed and recorded with Oscar Peterson ('' Bill Henderson with the Oscar Peterson Trio''), Jimmy Smith, Count Basie, Yusef Lateef, and Eddie Harris. He was under contract to the Vee Jay label between 1958 and 1961, who recorded his first album as leader, ''Bill Henderson Sings'' (1958), which features trumpeter Booker Little among the sidemen. Beginning in the mid-1970s, he frequently appeared on television in sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilton Felder
Wilton Lewis Felder (August 31, 1940 – September 27, 2015) was an American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5's hits "I Want You Back" and "ABC" and on Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On". Biography Felder was born on August 31, 1940, in Houston, Texas and studied music at Texas Southern University. Felder, Wayne Henderson, Joe Sample, and Stix Hooper founded their group while in high school in Houston. The Jazz Crusaders evolved from a straight-ahead jazz combo into a pioneering jazz-rock fusion group, with a definite soul music influence. Felder worked with the original group for over thirty years, and continued to work in its later versions, which often featured other founding members. Felder also worked as a West Coast studio musician, mostly playing electric bass, for various soul and R&B musicians, and was one of the in-house bass players for Motown Recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Henderson (musician)
Wayne Maurice Henderson (September 24, 1939 – April 5, 2014) was an American soul jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group The Jazz Crusaders. Henderson left the group (who by then had changed their name to The Crusaders) in 1976 to pursue a career in producing, but revived The Jazz Crusaders in 1995. In 2007, Henderson took a position with the California College of Music in Pasadena, California. Henderson had suffered from diabetes and died of heart failure at a Culver City hospital on April 5, 2014 at age 74. Discography As leader/co-leader *1968: The Freedom Sounds fest. Wayne Henderson ''People Get Ready'' (Atlantic) *1969: The Freedom Sounds fest. Wayne Henderson ''Soul Sound System'' (Atlantic) *1977: ''At Big Daddies'' (ABC) *1977: ''Big Daddy's Place'' (ABC) *1978: ''Living on a Dream'' (Polydor) *1978: ''Step in to Our Life'' (Polydor)(with Roy Ayers) *1979: ''Emphasized'' (Polydor)(with Roy Ayers) *1980: R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dollar Brand
Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and Ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the subgenre of Cape jazz. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. He is known especially for "Mannenberg", a jazz piece that became a notable anti-apartheid anthem. During the apartheid era in the 1960s Ibrahim moved to New York City and, apart from a brief return to South Africa in the 1970s, remained in exile until the early '90s. Over the decades he has toured the world extensively, appearing at major venues either as a solo artist or playing with other renowned musicians, including Max Roach, Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kippie Moeketsi
Jeremiah "Kippie" Morolong Moeketsi (27 July 1925 – 27 April 1983) was a South African jazz musician, notable as an alto saxophonist. He is sometimes referred to as "the father of South African jazz" and as "South Africa's Charlie Parker". Jürgen Schadeberg"Profiles" ''Jazz, Blues & Swing: Six Decades of Music in South Africa'', New Africa Books, 2007, p. 145. He played with and influenced some of South Africa's great musicians, including Jonas Gwangwa, Abdullah Ibrahim, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. Biography Born into a musical Johannesburg family, Jeremiah Morolong Moeketsi was the youngest of 11 brothers, and one sister who was a nurse (Mirriam Ntsadi Kathar, ''née'' Moeketsi), all but four of whom played an instrument. Growing up in George Goch township was unpleasant for him and he was often truant. According to the Johannesburg official website, "His mother used to go looking for him, shouting: 'kippie-kippie-kippie', as if he were a chicken" — hence his nickname. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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