Hope (Hugh Masekela album)

Hope
Live album by Hugh Masekela
Released	1 February 1994
Recorded	30 July – 1 August 1993
Studio	Blues Alley, Washington DC
Genre	Jazz
Length	1:13:34
Label	Triloka Records (TRICD82020)
Producer	Hugh Masekela, K.D. Kagel
Hugh Masekela chronology
Beatin' Aroun de Bush (1992) Hope (1994) Stimela (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	[4]

Hope is a 1994 live album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. ^{[5] [6]}

Reception

Richard S. Ginell of Allmusic wrote: "Now happily resettled in South Africa, Masekela assembled a seven-piece group there and recorded an informal guided tour of his life and repertoire live in Washington D.C.'s Blues Alley. The songs stretch over a period of nearly five decades and several countries and composers -- from an incantatory Alexandria township tune, 'Languta,' which he learned in 1947, to a fairly ordinary piece written by keyboardist Themba Mkhize in 1993, 'Until When.' 'Abangoma' starts the CD out on the right track, hearkening back to the early fusion of African music and jazz that Masekela was playing back in 1966." ^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Abangoma (The Healers)"	Miriam Makeba	4:59
2.	"Uptownship"	Hugh Masekela	4:51
3.	"Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)"	Hugh Masekela	5:09
4.	"Grazing in the Grass"	Harry Elston, Philemon Hou	3:27
5.	"Lady"	Fela Kuti	7:00
6.	"Until When"	Themba Mkhize	4:08
7.	"Languta"	Hugh Masekela	8:04
8.	"Nomali"	Caiphus Semenya	8:55
9.	"Market Place"	Hugh Masekela	5:28
10.	"Ntyilo Ntyilo (The Love Bird)"	Alan Salinga	5:55
11.	"Ha le Se (The Dowry Song)"	Caiphus Semenya	5:38
12.	"Stimela (The Coal Train)"	Hugh Masekela	10:00
Total length:			01:13:34

Personnel

• Hugh Masekela – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Damon Duewhite – drums
• Bakithi Kumalo – bass, vocals
• Lawrence Matshiza – guitar, vocals
• Themba Mkhize – keyboards, vocals
• Remi Kabaka – percussion, vocals
• Ngenekhaya Mahlanghu – saxophone, flute, vocals, percussion
• Los Ballederos Hornas Africanos De Townsheep – backing vocals

References

1. "Hugh Masekela: Technobush". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
2. Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1203. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8 . Retrieved 16 May 2017.
3. Cook, Richard (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Cook, Richard. p. 862. ISBN   9780141023274 . Retrieved 21 August 2020.
4. Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide . Random House. ISBN   9780679768739 . Retrieved 23 September 2019. Hugh Masekela
5. "Hugh Masekela – Hope". Discogs . discogs.com. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
6. "Hugh Masekela - Biography". Amoeba Music . amoeba.com. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
7. "Hugh Masekela: Technobush". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

External links

• Official website