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Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela 20 Years of Freedom Hugh Masekela flugelhorn & lead vocals Vusi Mahlasela guitar & lead vocals Francis Fuster percussion Ian Herman drums Mongezi Ntaka guitar Randal Skippers keyboards Abednigo Sibongiseni Zulu bass guitar The program will be announced from the stage. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES 15 ABOUT THE ARTISTS WO OF SOUTH AFRICA ’s poets of freedom and copies in 1968 and made him an international Trenowned musical icons come together to star. He later played an integral role in Paul honor 20 years since the start of democracy in Simon’s tour behind the classic album South Africa and the official end of the Graceland, which was one of the first pop apartheid régime. In a collaborative perform - records to introduce African music to a ance with members of each stars’ band, Hugh broader public. Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela will pay celebrate Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on the struggle and victory in @> Years of Freedom , April 5, 1939 , in Witbank, near Johannesburg. playing some of the most famous protest music Masekela showed musical ability from a and many of their own hits, too. Both artists young age and began playing piano as a child. have been like-minded musical comrades at Inspired by the movie Young Man with a Horn home in South Africa for years and have shared (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character the stage on several occasions; however, this modeled after American jazz trumpeter Bix season marks the first time the two artists have Beiderbecke), Mr. Masekela began to play the toured together. The collaboration began in trumpet. He was encouraged by anti- earnest in October 2014, when they opened Apartheid activist Father Trevor Huddleston, Carnegie Hall’s South Africa Festival, entitled who helped him acquire an instrument. Ubuntu: Music and Arts of South Africa , and At Father Huddleston’s request, Mr. Masekela welcomed special guests Dave Matthews and then received tuition for trumpet playing from Somi to join the stage with them for several Uncle Sauda, who played for the Johannesburg numbers. Mr. Masekela and Mr. Mahlasela re - “Native” Municipal Brass Brand. Mr. Masekela traced an outline of the history of the resist - soon mastered the trumpet and began to play ance to apartheid through some of the most with other aspiring musicians in the memorable songs of the period, including Huddleston Jazz Band—South Africa’s first Mr. Masekela’s “Bring Back Nelson Mandela” youth orchestra. Louis Armstrong sent the and “Stimela,” Mr. Mahlasela’s “When You band a trumpet as a way of supporting their Come Back,” and Johnny Klegg’s “Asimbonanga.” efforts. Mr. Masekela later secured a gig in the Perhaps the most emotional song of the pit band for the musical King Kong . King Kong evening was “Weeping,” which contains the was South Africa’s first blockbuster theatrical melody from “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” (the success, touring the country for a sold-out year South African national anthem at a time when with Miriam Makeba who would later become South Africans could not sing their own Mr. Masekela’s wife. He later formed a band anthem under apartheid). The songs on this with Dollar Brand (later known as Abdullah tour symbolize kindness, respect, unity, and, Ibrahim) called the Jazz Epistles, which be - ultimately, forgiveness. came the first African jazz group to record an LP and perform to record-breaking audiences Legendary South in Johannesburg and Cape Town in late 1959 African trumpeter and early 1960. But life in South Africa was Hugh Masekela is becoming unbearable under the strain of an innovator in the Apartheid oppression. After the 1960 world music and jazz Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 peacefully genres and continues protesting Africans were brutally gunned to tour the world as a down, the South African government banned performer, com - gatherings of ten or more people. Mr. Masekela poser, producer, and escaped South Africa with the help of Father activist. This iconic artist is best known for his Huddleston, who enlisted friends like Yehudi Grammy Award-nominated hit single “Grazing Menuhin and John Dankworth, both of whom in the Grass,” which sold over four million helping get him admitted into London’s PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS Guildhall School of Music. Later on, with the “to get well, to heal”) and with a highly ac - assistance of Miriam Makeba and Harry claimed performance with the London Belafonte, Mr. Masekela was accepted into the Symphony. In 2010, he created Songs of Manhattan School of Music in New York. His Migration , a theatrical tribute to the great first night in New York found him in several songs of migrants across the African continent jazz clubs, hearing Thelonious Monk and that was staged at the Market Theatre in Dizzy Gillespie in one, Charlie Mingus and Johannesburg and featured Mr. Masekela as Max Roach at a second, and John Coltrane at a the Lead Storyteller. The piece was yet another third. It was clear that New York would be the facet of his continued efforts to protect and perfect place to pursue his jazz aspirations nurture South Africa’s musical and cultural while studying classical trumpet at school dur - heritage, which was nearly snuffed out during ing the day. the Apartheid era. It made its U.S. début at the Mr. Masekela was deeply affected by his Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in life experiences and consequently made October 2012. music that reflected his experiences in the In April 2010, he received the Order of harsh po litical climate of South Africa during Ikhamanga from South African President the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. Masekela’s music Jacob Zuma, his nation’s highest civilian portrays the struggles and joys of living in honor. When South Africa hosted the 2010 South Africa, and voices protest against slav - World Cup, Mr. Masekela performed at the ery and dis crimination. opening ceremony concert, broadcast world - Mr. Masekela has collaborated with numer - wide for millions of people, and played his in - ous artists in the United States, Africa, and fectious and celebratory “Grazing in the Europe, including Miriam Makeba, Dizzy Grass.” As part of ESPN’s coverage of the Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Herb Alpert, Fela World Cup, Mr. Masekela and his son Sal Kuti (in Nigeria), and Franco (in the Congo). Masekela (an ESPN Sportscaster) hosted a se - Renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey chose a ries of video documentaries entitled Umlando: piece by Mr. Masekela to create a work for his Through My Father’s Eyes . In February 2011, world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Mr. Masekela joined the rock band U2 on Theater. Mr. Masekela also co-created the stage in Johannesburg to a crowd of almost Broadway smash musical Sarafina , which in - 100,000, the biggest concert the band has ever troduced the sounds and passion of South played. February 2012 brought the release of African music to theater audiences worldwide. Mr. Masekela’s Jabulani on the Listen 2 Africa Mr. Masekela’s work as an activist raised in - Series record label. From the Zulu word ternational awareness of the South African meaning “rejoice,” Jabulani recalls several gen - government’s restrictive Apartheid policies. In erations of music from wedding ceremonies the 1980s Mr. Masekela’s hit song, “Bring Him in South Africa. Back Home,” became an anthem for the Free Twenty-five years after Mr. Masekela first Nelson Mandela movement. In the 1990s, collaborated with Mr. Simon on the Graceland Mr. Masekela finally returned home to South album and tour, the two icons reunited on a Africa and renewed the musical ties to his Hyde Park Stage in July 2012. The anniversary homeland and the sounds and rhythms of celebration included the original Graceland Central and West Africa, in particular the band, as well as Ladysmith Black Mambazo mbaqanga style. In 2004, he released his auto - and reggae star Jimmy Cliff. biography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey The following year saw the launch of of Hugh Masekela , a stunning memoir that is Mr. Masekela’s own record label, House of both heartbreaking and hilarious. Hugh Masekela. The first recording on this In 2009, Mr. Masekela celebrated his 70th label is a four-CD box set Friends , which fea - birthday by releasing the CD Phola (meaning tures Mr. Masekela and American pianist CAL PERFORMANCES ABOUT THE ARTISTS Larry Willis performing American song and records—James Brown, Motown, the classic jazz standards. Also released in 2013 Commodores—and whatever South African was Playing@work, featuring his longtime and African recordings they could find— band: bassist Fana Zulu, keyboardist Randal Mahotella Queens, Mahlatini Queens, Miriam Skippers, Cameron Ward on guitar, and Makeba, Dark City Sisters, Fela Kuti. Young drummer Lee-Roy Sauls. Mr. Mahlasela and his neighborhood friends Celebrating 50 years in the music industry formed a little band and started making music and his 75th birthday, Mr. Masekela returned of their own, inspired by the recordings to the United States in March 2014 for a ten- they heard wafting out of the shebeen . city tour dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mr. Mahlasela built his first guitar from fishing Mandela. Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated his line and a cooking-oil can and taught himself 75th birthday with three nights of music from how to play. In 1976, Mr. Mahlasela’s political Friends , and he closed the tour on his actual education began as he witnessed the devas - birthday with Paul Simon at the Rose Theater. tating massacre of more than 200 black South In the finale, Mr. Masekela performed “(Bring Africans in the Soweto Uprising.
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