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…