Hugh Masekela - Tomorrow (1987)
BAND/ARTIST: Hugh Masekela
- Title: Tomorrow
- Year Of Release: 1987
- Label: Warner Bros.[9 25566-2]
- Genre: Jazz, Afro Cuban Jazz
- Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
- Total Time: 52:23
- Total Size: 320 MB(+3%) | 124 MB(+3%)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Bring Him Back Home (4:40)
02. Mayibuye (6:26)
03. Ke Bale (5:30)
04. London Fog (7:22)
05. Everybody's Standing Up (4:48)
06. Bird on the Wing (6:56)
07. Something for Nothing (5:52)
08. Serengeti (3:18)
09. Stimela (Coal Train) (7:31)
personnel :
Hugh Masekela - horn, percussion, producer, trumpet, vocals
Don Freeman - flute, keyboards, producer, saxophone, synthesizer
Francis Fuster - congas, percussion
Patricia Knight, Sonti Mndebele, Tu Nokwe, Beverley Skeete, Tsepo Tshola - vocals
Billy Lovelady, Banjo Mosele - guitar
Mark Millington - tenor saxophone
Clive Mngaza, Richard Stevens - drums
Aubrey Obert Oaki - bass
Michael Osapanin - trombone
John Selolwane - guitar, backing vocals
Michael Timothy - keyboards, synthesizer
Mopati Tsienyane - drums, vocals
Still in exile from his homeland, Hugh Masekela leaves no doubt where he would rather be in this carefully produced, majestically swinging, techno-pop-jazz album that leans heavily in the direction of Soweto. Masekela often performs sophisticated takes on three-chord township jive, leading the massed vocals with his own coarse yet evocatively blunt voice, while leaving himself just enough room to peel off a few patented, repeated-note trumpet licks and double-tracked flugelhorn statements. Later on the record, the keys turn minor but the high-tech verve is still there. The key track is a fine version of Masekela's signature tune of the '80s, "Bring Him Back Home," which became prophetic in the next decade with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison (though the "walking hand in hand with Winnie Mandela" bit didn't last long). From the vantage point of London, Masekela expresses homesickness in "London Fog," celebrates the imminent fall of several of the world's petty dictators in "Everybody's Standing Up," and in general lets us know that he's gonna be back home soon. His backup band, Kalahari, and a quartet of vocalists share Masekela's passion -- and the outcome of this chemistry is one of Masekela's best albums of the last 20 years.~Richard S. Ginell
01. Bring Him Back Home (4:40)
02. Mayibuye (6:26)
03. Ke Bale (5:30)
04. London Fog (7:22)
05. Everybody's Standing Up (4:48)
06. Bird on the Wing (6:56)
07. Something for Nothing (5:52)
08. Serengeti (3:18)
09. Stimela (Coal Train) (7:31)
personnel :
Hugh Masekela - horn, percussion, producer, trumpet, vocals
Don Freeman - flute, keyboards, producer, saxophone, synthesizer
Francis Fuster - congas, percussion
Patricia Knight, Sonti Mndebele, Tu Nokwe, Beverley Skeete, Tsepo Tshola - vocals
Billy Lovelady, Banjo Mosele - guitar
Mark Millington - tenor saxophone
Clive Mngaza, Richard Stevens - drums
Aubrey Obert Oaki - bass
Michael Osapanin - trombone
John Selolwane - guitar, backing vocals
Michael Timothy - keyboards, synthesizer
Mopati Tsienyane - drums, vocals
Still in exile from his homeland, Hugh Masekela leaves no doubt where he would rather be in this carefully produced, majestically swinging, techno-pop-jazz album that leans heavily in the direction of Soweto. Masekela often performs sophisticated takes on three-chord township jive, leading the massed vocals with his own coarse yet evocatively blunt voice, while leaving himself just enough room to peel off a few patented, repeated-note trumpet licks and double-tracked flugelhorn statements. Later on the record, the keys turn minor but the high-tech verve is still there. The key track is a fine version of Masekela's signature tune of the '80s, "Bring Him Back Home," which became prophetic in the next decade with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison (though the "walking hand in hand with Winnie Mandela" bit didn't last long). From the vantage point of London, Masekela expresses homesickness in "London Fog," celebrates the imminent fall of several of the world's petty dictators in "Everybody's Standing Up," and in general lets us know that he's gonna be back home soon. His backup band, Kalahari, and a quartet of vocalists share Masekela's passion -- and the outcome of this chemistry is one of Masekela's best albums of the last 20 years.~Richard S. Ginell
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