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Hugh Masekela - grrr (1965) {2003 Verve Music Group} **[RE-UP]**

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Date: 3 May 2021 15:37:25
Due to irreparable tape delamination track 3 has been transferred from a disc source. Distortion throughout program is found on the master tape.

Hugh Masekela - grrr (1965) {2003 Verve Music Group} **[RE-UP]**

Hugh Masekela - grrr (1965) {2003 Verve Music Group}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 210 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 82 mb
Genre: jazz, highlife

grrr is the 1965 album by Hugh Masekela. Originally released on Mercury, this is from a CD released by the Verve Music Group on 9 September, 2003.
Hopefully this record is the first in a line of Hugh Masekela's other '60s recordings to be released on CD. The 'Lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga' pairing was all we had to work with until now.

Unlike the two records on the 'Lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga', 'Grrr' is a studio recording, and so it's tighter and the songs are shorter and more concise, even though they were recorded at roughly the same time as the live ones found on '…Ooga Booga'.

Masekela was married to Miriam Makeba during the time of this release and some of the material bears a strong similarity to Makeba's work. Masekela delivers an instrumental version of Makeba's 'Ntjilo-Ntjilo' as well as another song Makeba recorded, 'Phatsha-Phatsha', and it's easy to imagine 'Umaningi Bona' and 'Sharpville' being in her repertoire too. 'Sharpville' is a nifty guitar-driven tune that doesn't seem like an unusual song unless you consider that Sharpville was the site of one of South Africa's bloodiest massacres. Then it becomes a rather odd contradiction, perhaps written by Masekela to celebrate the lives of those who were killed rather than as a funereal dirge.

'Grrr' has an odd sound for a jazz recording. True, Masekela was more than a jazz musician, but rarely will you hear a jazz-based record as poorly recorded as this one. It could be said that it sounds like 'garage jazz' in that the sound quality is very lo-fi but not so much that the music suffers. In fact, I think it adds to the music, giving it a warmth and character that a good amount of jazz lacks due to sterile recording practices. Masekela's music often traded virtuosity for soulfulness and 'Grrr' is a good example of that. The element of the folk song is something that he never left behind, and he wasn't ashamed to wear pop on his sleeve either. However, I do think he took his pop leanings too far in the late-'60s in terms of just covering pop/rock songs and not writing original pop-influenced material ('Grazing In the Grass' excluded). He and Gabor Szabo shared the same disease.

If for nothing else, points are to be given to one of the greatest album covers around. The tiger pup and trumpet are understandable given Masekela's iconography, but the small 'grrr' coming from the pup's face is boss. If it had only been placed lower so that it lined up with the mouth…

Hugh Masekela - grrr (1965) {2003 Verve Music Group} **[RE-UP]**

01. U. Dwi
02. Zulu And The Mexican
03. Emavungweni
04. Ntjilo-Ntjilo
05. Sharpville
06. Umaningi Bona
07. Sipho
08. 'Kwa-Blaney
09. Mra
10. Phatsha-Phatsha
–-
Hugh Masekela-trumpet, arranger
Other musicians unknown

Track 8:
Jonas Gwangwa-arranger replaces Masekela (arranger)

Recorded 1965
Tracks 1, 5, 6, and 10 in April
Tracks 2-4 and 7-9 in May

Produced by Ed Townshend
CD remastered by Jeff Willens at Foothill Digital, New York City

Grrr is a 1965 Mercury date which has very little in the way of identifying information. None of the accompanying musicians are named and Masekela takes the lead throughout. The ten tracks contained within are all in the neighborhood of three to four minutes apiece and the overall sound is in the "highlife" tradition, with bristling and insistent rhythms providing the structure for the jaunty originals. Better and more memorable moments would be just a bit down the road for Masekela, but this set does prove to be an enlightening look at the trumpet man early on.

EAC extraction logfile from 31. August 2006, 15:38 for CD
Hugh Masekela / grrr

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