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Hugh Masekela
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Hugh Masekela grew up near Johannesburg. As a teenager he was given a trumpet that had belonged to Louis Armstrong, courtesy of the priest Trevor Huddleston, and Armstrong became his great example. In 1959 he played in The Jazz Epistles. In 1960 he left South Africa and studied in London and New York, helped by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, whom he married. In 1968 Grazing in the Grass topped the American chart. His music blended jazz with mbaqanga and African pop. Stimela is about miners travelling by train to the gold mines. After the end of apartheid he returned to South Africa in 1990.
Listening
Grazing in the Grass · Hugh Masekela, 1968
Stimela · Hugh Masekela, 1974
Don't Go Lose It Baby · Hugh Masekela, 1984
Discography
Studio albums
- 1962Trumpet Africaine
- 1965The Americanization of Ooga Booga
- 1966Grrr
- 1966Hugh Masekela's Next Album
- 1966The Emancipation of Hugh Masekala
- 1967Hugh Masekela’s Latest
- 1968The Promise of a Future
- 1969Masekela
- 1970Reconstruction
- 1972Home Is Where the Music Is / The African Connection
- 1973Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz
- 1974I Am Not Afraid
- 1975The Boy's Doin' It
- 1976Colonial Man
- 1977You Told Your Mama Not to Worry
- 1978Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela
- 1984Techno‐Bush
- 1985Waiting for the Rain
- 1987Mbongeni Ngema's Sarafina! (soundtrack)
- 1987Sarafina! The Music of Liberation (soundtrack)
- 1987Tomorrow
- 1989Uptownship
- 1992Beatin’ Aroun de Bush
- 1994Hope
- 1996Home
- 1996The Lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga
- 1997Black to the Future
- 1999Sixty
- 2002Time
- 2005Almost Like Being in Jazz
- 2005Revival
- 2008Phola
- 2010Notes of Life
- 2012Jabulani
- 2016No Borders
- 2017Johannesburg
- 2018The Times We’ve Shared 1939–2018
- 2020Rejoice
Other work
- 1960Jazz Epistle Verse 1 · The Jazz Epistles
- 1987Graceland-tour · with Paul Simon
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Jazz MapNL Map
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- South African jazz Genre
In 1959, the pianist Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim), the alto saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi and the trumpeter Hugh Masekela formed The Jazz Epistles, the country's first Black bebop group with an LP of its own.