Theme: Johannesburg Hi-Lite Jive Composers: Eric Songxaka - JonasGwangwa Hugh Masekela, vocals and trumpet Jonas Gwanwa, vocals, trombone Caiphus Semenya.

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Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa. Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa is the thirteen studio album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela released via Chisa Records label in May 1971. The album was re-released on CD in 1994 on MoJazz label. Design, photography – Barry Feinstein, Tom Wilkes. Engineer – Lewis Peters. Engineer – Rik Pekkonen. Producer – Stewart Levine. Vocals, alto saxophone – Caiphus Semenya.

Complete your Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa collection. This record has a totally different tracklisting. Firstly it is a compilation of the Union Of South Africa and Reconstruction records and the tracklisting scrambled very different.

The Emancipation of Hugh Masekela is the fifth studio album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. It was recorded in Los Angeles and released in 1966 via Chisa Records label. On this album he performs mostly his own songs. Tracks "Child of the Earth", "Felicidade", and "Ha Lese Le Di Khanna" were later included in his 2004 album Still Grazing.

Hugh Masekela & the Union of South Africa is an inspired mix of soul, highlife, and even New Orleans jazz. This works excellently on the old-fashioned "Goin' Back to New Orleans" and the fast-moving "Ade" and "Dyambo" where horn lines, call-and-response singing, and funky guitars, together with African rhythms, create furious dance music. But some of the slower numbers seem to be left without direction, a fact that is only partly covered by Masekela's trumpet playing

The Union Of South Africa Goin' Back To New Orleans. The Union Of South Africa Hush (Somebody's Calling My Name). Hugh Masekela & the Union Of South Africa Shebeen. Hugh Masekela & the Union Of South Africa - Shebeen (Single Version). Hugh Masekela & the Union Of South Africa. Download MP3. Dyambo (De-Yambo) Weary Day Is Over.

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who has been 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".

Father of South African jazz’, who had career spanning more than five decades, dies aged 7. .South Africans have paid tribute to Hugh Masekela, the legendary jazz musician and activist, who died on Tuesday aged 78. The South African president, Jacob Zuma, said the nation would mourn a man who kept the torch of freedom alive. The arts and culture minister, Nathi Mthethwa, described Masekela as one of the great architects of Afro-Jazz. A baobab tree has fallen, Mthethwa wrote on Twitter