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In patching together a program of Hugh Masekela's MGM recordings onto a single overstuffed CD, Verve took the original The Americanization of Ooga Booga album, leapfrogged over its successor, Next Album, and coupled it with the third MGM LP, The Lasting Impressions of Hugh Masekela. That made good sense since the two albums originate from the same live date at the Village Gate, recorded when the trumpeter was still in the process of making an impression in the U.S. Masekela is full of wild, sputtering, high-rolling exuberance, developing some of his familiar signature trumpet riffs, freely exploring South African rhythms, harmonic sequences, and chants, and mixing them with soul-jazz at a time when hardly anyone else would bother (the mixture of township jive and jazz works especially well on "U-Dwi"). He also ties into Brazil with a fine rendition of Jorge Ben's "Mas Que Nada" and assimilates Coltrane into his bloodstream with a tribute called "Mixolydia." In general, the Americanization tracks are the picks of the crop (Impressions, after all, had been compiled in 1968 to cash in on Masekela's surprise number one single, "Grazing in the Grass"). With the rhythm section of Larry Willis on piano, Harold Dotson on bass, and Henry Jenkins on drums, this music still holds up marvelously today.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Miriam Makeba, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Miriam Makeba, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Miriam Makeba, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
HERBIE HANCOCK, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Val Valentin, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - David Greene, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reice Hamel, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Larry Willis, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Hugh Masekela, Cornet, Flugelhorn, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Reice Hamel, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Henry Jenkins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Dotson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jorge Ben, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Miriam Makeba, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Hugh Masekela, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Larry Willis, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Hugh Masekela, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Hugh Masekela, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tom Wilson, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Caiphus Semenya, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Hugh Masekela, MainArtist - Tom Wilson, Producer - Alan Salenga, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
In patching together a program of Hugh Masekela's MGM recordings onto a single overstuffed CD, Verve took the original The Americanization of Ooga Booga album, leapfrogged over its successor, Next Album, and coupled it with the third MGM LP, The Lasting Impressions of Hugh Masekela. That made good sense since the two albums originate from the same live date at the Village Gate, recorded when the trumpeter was still in the process of making an impression in the U.S. Masekela is full of wild, sputtering, high-rolling exuberance, developing some of his familiar signature trumpet riffs, freely exploring South African rhythms, harmonic sequences, and chants, and mixing them with soul-jazz at a time when hardly anyone else would bother (the mixture of township jive and jazz works especially well on "U-Dwi"). He also ties into Brazil with a fine rendition of Jorge Ben's "Mas Que Nada" and assimilates Coltrane into his bloodstream with a tribute called "Mixolydia." In general, the Americanization tracks are the picks of the crop (Impressions, after all, had been compiled in 1968 to cash in on Masekela's surprise number one single, "Grazing in the Grass"). With the rhythm section of Larry Willis on piano, Harold Dotson on bass, and Henry Jenkins on drums, this music still holds up marvelously today.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:39
- Main artists: Hugh Masekela
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz
© 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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