{"id":4960,"date":"2012-02-17T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:23:38","slug":"hugh-masekela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/hugh-masekela\/","title":{"rendered":"HUGH MASEKELA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4961\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/HUGH-MASEKELA-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/HUGH-MASEKELA-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/HUGH-MASEKELA-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>H<\/strong><strong>UGH MASEKELA<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Jabulani<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Razor &amp; Tie]<\/p>\n<p>As far as most Americans are concerned, Hugh Masekela was a one-hit wonder who scored a fluke pop chart-topper in 1968 with his jazzy take on the grooving \u201cGrazing in the Grass,\u201d and hasn\u2019t done much since. In truth, the South African trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist has been recording and performing steadily for some five decades now\u2014and if his public profile isn\u2019t as high as it once was, his music is no less stirring. For <em>Jabulani<\/em>, Masekela revisits the South African township wedding songs of his youth, music that heralded happy times ahead and ultimately influenced his buoyant style. While the words may not register with Westerners, the jubilation suggested in the album\u2019s title shines through. In recent years Masekela has reclaimed the African rhythms he at times abandoned in favor of a more pop-oriented direction, and his skills as a jazz improviser remain strong, even if his emphasis now is more concentrated on his gruff vocals than his horn. \u2013J. Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUGH MASEKELA Jabulani [Razor &amp; Tie] As far as most Americans are concerned, Hugh Masekela was a one-hit wonder who scored a fluke pop chart-topper in 1968 with his jazzy take on the grooving \u201cGrazing in the Grass,\u201d and hasn\u2019t done much since. In truth, the South African trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist has been recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3032,3110,3111,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}