Almost Like Being in Jazz
2005 studio album by Hugh Masekela
Almost Like Being in Jazz | ||||
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Studio album by Hugh Masekela | ||||
Released | 7 June 2005 (2005-06-07) | |||
Recorded | 15–17 October 2004 | |||
Studio | Bernie's, (Los Angeles, California) | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 1:01:30 | |||
Label | Chisa Records CHCD01 | |||
Producer | Stewart Levine | |||
Hugh Masekela chronology | ||||
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Almost Like Being in Jazz is a studio album by South-African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela.[1][2] The album was released on 7 June 2005 (2005-06-07) via Chisa Records label.[3] The album consists of 12 jazz standards. The album was also released as a double LP via Straigthahead Records. In 2012, the album was followed-up with the sequel record Friends.[4]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "You'll Never Know" | Harry Warren, Mack Gordon | 5:47 |
2. | "Answer Me, My Love" | Carl Sigman, Fred Rauch, Gerard Winkler | 4:43 |
3. | "Don't Explain" | Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday | 7:00 |
4. | "It Never Entered My Mind" | Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers | 3:31 |
5. | "Paper Moon" | Billy Rose, Harold Arlen | 4:55 |
6. | "Betcha By Golly Wow" | Thomas Bell | 4:37 |
7. | "Midnight Sun" | Lionel Hampton | 5:29 |
8. | "I Remember Clifford" | Benny Golson | 3:44 |
9. | "Smile" | Charles Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner | 4:26 |
10. | "You Don't Know What Love Is" | Don Raye, Gene DePaul | 5:44 |
11. | "My Ship" | Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill | 4:20 |
12. | "Presente De Natal" | João Gilberto | 7:19 |
Total length: | 1:01:30 |
Personnel
Band
- Hugh Masekela – flugelhorn
- John Heard – bass
- Lorca Heart – drums
- Larry Willis – piano
Production
- Scott Sedillo – engineer
- Bernie Grundman – mastering
- Stewart Levine – producer
References
- ^ "Hugh Masekela: Almost Like Being In Jazz". Dusty Groove. dustygroove.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ "Hugh Masekela – Almost Like Being In Jazz". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ "Hugh Masekela: Almost Like Being in Jazz". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ "Friends: Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis warm up the Music Circuit". Design Indaba. designindaba.com. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
External links
- Official website
- v
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- Trumpet Africaine (1962)
- Grrr (1966)
- Hugh Masekela's Next Album (1966)
- The Emancipation of Hugh Masekela (1966)
- Hugh Masekela's Latest (1967)
- The Promise of a Future (1968)
- Africa '68 (1968)
- Masekela (1969)
- Reconstruction (1970)
- Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa (1971)
- Home Is Where the Music Is (1972)
- Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz (1973)
- I Am Not Afraid (1974)
- The Boy's Doin' It (1975)
- Colonial Man (1976)
- Melody Maker
- You Told Your Mama Not to Worry (1977)
- Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela (1978)
- Home (1982)
- Techno-Bush (1984)
- Waiting for the Rain (1985)
- Tomorrow (1987)
- Uptownship (1989)
- Beatin' Aroun de Bush (1992)
- Notes of Life (1996)
- Black to the Future (1998)
- Sixty (2000)
- Time (2002)
- Revival (2005)
- Almost Like Being in Jazz (2005)
- Phola (2009)
- Jabulani (2012)
- Friends (2012)
- Playing @ Work (2012)
- No Borders (2016)
- Rejoice (2020)
- The Best of Masekela (1969)
- Stimela (1994)
- The Best of Hugh Masekela on Novus (1999)
- Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela (2001)
- The Collection (2003)
- Still Grazing (2004)
- The Chisa Years: 1965–1975 (Rare and Unreleased) (2006)
- The Americanization of Ooga Booga (1966)
- Hugh Masekela Is Alive and Well at the Whisky (1967)
- The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela (1968)
- Main Event Live (1978)
- Hope (1994)
- Live at the BBC (2002)
- Live at the Market Theatre (2007)
- "Up-Up and Away"
- "Grazing in the Grass"
- "Skokiaan"
- Still Grazing (2004)