Still Grazing: The Musical Journey Of Hugh Masekela
by Hugh Masekela /
2005 / English / EPUB
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Hugh Masekela is a giant of jazz and a pioneer in bringing the
voice and spirit of Africa to the West, but his wild and moving
tale transcends the world of music. A South African exile, he
landed in New York, where he was adopted by bebop heroes like Dizzy
Gillespie, and soon fell, headfirst, into the raucous swirl of
1960s America. During the thirty-year pilgrimage that followed, he
stumbled into adventure after adventure, whether battling Don King
over the Rumble in the Jungle concert, finding himself on the wrong
side of revolutions all over West Africa, loving some of the most
beautiful and volatile women in the world, or battling for the
destruction of apartheid. When he finally returned to a free South
Africa, he found the strength to confront the personal demons that
tracked him around the world and discovered a new measure of peace
at home. Unfolding against one of the most inspiring political
transformations of the twentieth century, this is the engrossing
chronicle of a remarkable, one-of-a-kind musical life.
Hugh Masekela is a giant of jazz and a pioneer in bringing the
voice and spirit of Africa to the West, but his wild and moving
tale transcends the world of music. A South African exile, he
landed in New York, where he was adopted by bebop heroes like Dizzy
Gillespie, and soon fell, headfirst, into the raucous swirl of
1960s America. During the thirty-year pilgrimage that followed, he
stumbled into adventure after adventure, whether battling Don King
over the Rumble in the Jungle concert, finding himself on the wrong
side of revolutions all over West Africa, loving some of the most
beautiful and volatile women in the world, or battling for the
destruction of apartheid. When he finally returned to a free South
Africa, he found the strength to confront the personal demons that
tracked him around the world and discovered a new measure of peace
at home. Unfolding against one of the most inspiring political
transformations of the twentieth century, this is the engrossing
chronicle of a remarkable, one-of-a-kind musical life.