
Artist
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela is a jazz artist from South African. 62 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · South African · Best jazz albums
- 62
- Releases
- 1968–2026
- Active years

Artist
Hugh Masekela is a jazz artist from South African. 62 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · South African · Best jazz albums

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Home Is Where the Music Is
1972 · 10 tracks

Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela
2000

Still Grazing
2004

Sixty
2000

Grrr
2003

The Promise of a Future
1968

We Are One
2011

Home
1982

Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela
1978

Notes of Life
2010

The Boy's Doin' It
1975

Beatin' Aroun de Bush
1992

Jabulani
2012

Uptownship
1989

I Am Not Afraid
1974

You Told Your Mama Not to Worry
1977

Masekela
1969

Colonial Man
1976

Reconstruction
1994

Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa
2026

Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz
2026

The Emancipation Of Hugh Masekela
2026

Is Alive And Well At The Whisky
2026

The Americanization Of Ooga-Booga
2026

Hugh Masekela's Latest
2026

The Best of Hugh Masekela
2024

Siparia To Soweto
2023

Rejoice (Special Edition)
2021

No Borders
2016

Greatest Trumpet Jazz Hits
2015

Pure Sounds of Africa
2015

Playing at Work (Re-Worked)
2013

Playing @ Work
2012
Hugh! The Best of Hugh Masekela
2010

Hope (Live)
2009

Phola
2009

Best Of/20th Century
2006

The Chisa Years 1965-1975 (Rare and Unreleased)
2006
Almost Like Being In Jazz
2005

Black To The Future
2005
Revival
2005

Liberation - The Best Of
2003

The Collection
2003

Greatest Hits
2000

The Best Of Hugh Masekela On Novus
1999

The Lasting Impressions Of Ooga Booga
1996
African Breeze : 80's Masekela
1996
Hugh Masakela & the Union of South Africa
1994
Hope
1994

Mbongeni Ngema's Sarafina! (Original Stage Show Recording)
1992
Tomorrow
1987

Main Event Live
1978
Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz
1973

Slow Bones (Cool Cats Mix)
Single · 2026

We've Landed (Cool Cats Mix)
Single · 2026

We've Landed (Matthew Herbert's Absence Dub Remix)
Single · 2026

The Meeting Place (Soca Version)
Single · 2023

Dingolay
Single · 2023

Mango Tree
Single · 2023

The Meeting Place (Amapiano Version)
Single · 2023

Tapera
Single · 2019

Win The World
Single · 2010
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (born 4 April 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He is the father of American television host Sal Masekela. Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14, after seeing the film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modeled after American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke), he took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peter's Secondary School. Huddleston asked the leader of the then Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masekela the rudiments of trumpet playing. Masekela quickly mastered the instrument. Soon, some of his schoolmates also became interested in playing instruments, leading to the formation of the Huddleston Jazz Band, South Africa's first youth orchestra. By 1956, after leading other ensembles, Masekela joined Alfred Herbert's African Jazz Revue. Since 1954, Masekela has played music that closely reflects his life experience. The agony, conflict, and exploitation South Africa faced during…