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Hugh Masekela · 1972 · Plus longue plage de l'album (10 min 28), de Caiphus Semenya

Context

Track from Home Is Where the Music Is (also released as The African Connection), recorded on January 15, 1972 at Island Studios in London. Hugh Masekela is reunited there with Dudu Pukwana and makes a double album mixing jazz and Afrobeat, cited by AllMusic among the best of his career.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to South African jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz. Among the origins and influences of South African jazz: Free jazz, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Part of a Whole (1972)
• The Big Apple (1972)
• Maseru (1972)
• Stimela (Coaltrain) (1974)
• Grazing in the Grass (1968)
• Soweto Blues (1976)

Sources

• EN: Home Is Where the Music Is

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