Hugh Masekela - Live at Paris Jazz Festival / director Gilles Le Mao ; Hugh Masekela, Francis Manneh Fuster, Randal Skippers, Cameron Ward, Lee-Roy Sauls, Fana Zulu.

[Place of publication not identified] : Huit Production, 2013.

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"This concert is a wonderful testament to the talent, commitment, and generosity that flowed through the veins of Hugh Masekela, who passed away in January 2018. Five years earlier, at the Paris Jazz Festival, the South African trumpeter and singer appeared with a fantastic group (notably guitarist Cameron Ward) and a repertoire of his own standards, including ""Bring Him Back Home"", which became an anti-Apartheid anthem in 1987, and one of the most beautiful versions of ""Coal Train"" (Stimela) ever heard, as well as ""Lady"", composed by his friend, Fela Kuti. Hugh Masekela was 14 when he picked up his first trumpet in a Johannesburg township, before showing such a gift that Louis Armstrong himself sent him an instrument from the United States. Since his career began in the end of the 1950s, side by side with Miriam Makeba, who would become his wife, his music-from jazz to pop by way of a range of African expressions-tirelessly accompanied the struggles of his people, despite his forced exile from 1960 until Nelson Mandela's release in 1990. This fervent activism was a tight thread from the beginning to the end of this radiant concert. But the party was never far away. Hugh Masekela, whose enthusiasm burned into your retinas, displayed an infectious enthusiasm that brought the audience to its feet several times. It was love, and when he left the stage, everyone wanted to hug him. Eric Delhaye".

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