[Music] Hugh Masakela dies

[DavidinSouthampton]

Hugh Masakela has died

A great jazz trumpeter and an anti-apartheid campaigner to boot. A hero for me on two fronts.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42786749

 

[pearl]

Hugh Masakela has died

A great jazz trumpeter and an anti-apartheid campaigner to boot. A hero for me on two fronts.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42786749

thanks for posting this

sad news, rest in peace Masakela

 

[soistes]

Hugh Masakela has died

A great jazz trumpeter and an anti-apartheid campaigner to boot. A hero for me on two fronts.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42786749

Great man. Saw him and his band at Coasters in Brighton in the mid-80s, and he was still going strong and playing brilliantly when I saw him a few years ago at the Brecon Jazz Festival. RIP

 

[daveinprague]

Well, thats shit news. RIP Hugh.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Great man. Saw him and his band at Coasters in Brighton in the mid-80s, and he was still going strong and playing brilliantly when I saw him a few years ago at the Brecon Jazz Festival. RIP

I've seen him three times, all within the last 10 years or so. The last time just he and an american pianist on stage. Brilliant music and also a human and funny raconteur relating his dealings with people like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, who said to him something like "If you can take some of our sh1t, and mix it up with your own sh1t, you're gonna come up with some sh1t"..... and he wasn't talking about illegal substances.

 

[catfish]

A great performer. Saw him at Glasto in the 80's. RIP.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Almost as sad as Hugh Hefner.

The police are suspecting possible foreplay in his death.

 

[Brother Sid]

Almost as sad as Hugh Hefner.

The police are suspecting possible foreplay in his death.

No he died of myxomatosis

 

[The Large One]

Saw him at the Hay Festival about five or six years ago. Awesome sound.

Sad news.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Hugh Masakela has died

A great jazz trumpeter and an anti-apartheid campaigner to boot. A hero for me on two fronts.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42786749

Such a hero, you couldn't spell his name.

He was getting an honorary degree at York when I went to my eldest's graduation. Quite a treat to realise it was he who was serenading the throng outside the building.

RIP Hugh Masekela.

 

[1234andcounting]

Great man. Saw him and his band at Coasters in Brighton in the mid-80s, and he was still going strong and playing brilliantly when I saw him a few years ago at the Brecon Jazz Festival. RIPView attachment 93387

Thanks for posting that. I was sure I had seen him in Brighton but couldn't remember where.

Enjoyed the evening tho. RIP to a great musician.

 

[marlowe]

Masekela's sound will probably be more familiar to most people by his trumpet playing on The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock n Roll Star"

https://youtu.be/saAoTPXcPSg

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I stand corrected.

He's not as big a hero as Chris HOUGHTON, though.

 

[Razzoo]

Masekela's sound will probably be more familiar to most people by his trumpet playing on The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock n Roll Star"

https://youtu.be/saAoTPXcPSg

I'm sure he did loads of amazing stuff but this is what I knew about him and what a tune. RIP

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Saw him at the Artists Against Apartheid festival at Clapham Common many many years ago.

 

[marlowe]

Masekela's sound will probably be more familiar to most people by his trumpet playing on The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock n Roll Star"

https://youtu.be/saAoTPXcPSg

Pop Trivia: I've just read that the screaming fans featured on this track were recorded at a concert in Bournemouth (UK) of all places. Well I never. Not really a place that has many musical associations.