Out Of Africa – An in-depth trip throughout world music and global beats from an African perspective!! As an intro for this show, we kick off with Cochemea (“All My Relations”) …we then travel to the blues by the Bongo Ikwe, from Nigeria…as some say, the blues came from Africa,...
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The new episode of Rendez-Vous à Bobo is a rendez-vous “from the archives” with the late great Hugh Masekela. Lucas Keen interviewed Masekela back in 2006, when he was just starting out in radio. Featured album of the month is Indaba Is out now on Brownswood Records + Some well known and...
Hard to believe that such a dire and dramatic year could inspire such an abundance of remarkable albums. Or maybe, on the contrary, the multitude of emotions sparked by the pandemic and our new life’s circumstances might have been the main reasons why musicians were able to write, record and...
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With the very recent passing of Tony Allen, this set of recordings has special significance. He and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela had been planning on making a record together for years and in 2010 this finally was about to become a reality. Producer Nick Gold got the two titans...
04/04/2019 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Etuk Ubong presents: Hugh Masekela At 80 The Jazz Cafe, London
On 3rd January 2018, one of the world’s finest and most inspirational horn players died. After a career of changing music, and not just in his homeland of South Africa, Hugh Masekela was sadly taken from the world of jazz. Having been a figure of defiance throughout apartheid, and a...
18/11/2018 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm A celebration of the life and music of Hugh Masekela Southbank Centre, London
10/11/2017 - 19/11/2017 10:00 am - 11:59 pm EFG London Jazz Festival 2017
- 12:00 am - 12:00 am Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis Barbican Centre, London
12:00 am - 12:00 am Hugh Masekela And Larry Willis Royal Northern College Of Music, Manchester