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"hugh masekela" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"Tasking that. The circle song lull circle changing heart the other son of his on their great stuff to go on with my list. How about the five songs on the you wrote half the record younger than yesterday between girl with no name thoughts and words. Have you seen her face. So you wanna be a rock and roll star. Many people consider that the greatest birds record way to go man. I love that record. I love that track. Thank you very much. I mean i love playing that track and a lot of that is is is mass. Kayla's influence hugh masekela influence on that on rock and roll starting especially on. Have you seen her face. I actually used his keyboard player. Cecil bernard who was from south africa played keyboard on heavy senior. Face barely hear him. But thank you so much. You're very complimentary. Violate late last. But not least bide my time. Beautiful song from your latest record. Which if you guys listeners. Haven't heard it go check it out. Now it's mostly acoustic but us just a heartfelt americana tour de force to me. Wonderful wonderful record man. I would always worried whether tom Liked it or not. I was off tom. I would look at. Tom like an equal but not an equal he was. He was the most humble guy in the world. And i always said this. I said for this guy who occupied Position in music. I would look at him in awe but and i actually asked the engineer ryan. Gosh after the album's done i said. Did tom like this. There's no he loves you record. He just wanted more drums. I understand now. 'cause tom really wanted what i originally showed a few things. He's already doing a folk. How cool he was fine to do anything but I would've plugged in and had the whole setup out there with with Steve for and all guys in a minute. We use the heartbreakers on a couple of those guys around there. Well and i thought that. I read somewhere where he said he wasn't done with you yet. Yeah i wanted to do a rock record with. That would have been fantastic. As i was over the moon when he said that he was a sweet guy. Great guy now. I saw the burrito brothers. I think in seventy one or seventy two. And the only way i could have you tell me that i if you on stage or not was they were sharing the stage where the very eclectic folk psychedelic band called family from england. Were you with abandon. I think i was there in seventy one. I'm trying to figure out a seventy two five win over to with monas- or not i think you did you. Were you ever share. The stage with family from england sounds familiar. Yeah i got to see the the dynamic gram parsons wants end. The whole band those fabulous up remarkable evening. But i am very curious it. It's it's you. You're on record for having introduced graham to any lose. Yeah and how did that come. Those parsons had come back from england. He had been at keith richards house probably almost a year. I think keith or his wife can rename anita. Anita anita think abbott. I think she'd had enough and they said on graham and he came. I ran into him on the. I think marylanders advice. We had done a gig. He knew we were playing. He comes over to sat in with us saying he says. I want to make an album in la I need to find a girl singer. I know just the one while i met. Emmy down in George washington dc. And she sat in with the britos. We're planning cellar door. Yeah so i mean. I just took me an hour to get him to call her. We were in my hotel room. I said call her up. Finally he calls her he says. Can you pick me up at the at the train station in dc. She said no. I don't know you. I've never met you. I'm not going to pick you up down here. Here's where i'm working for the next united. Come over and we'll talk and he did and she went out to. La them very cool well. I didn't do anything but it worked. I mean as best as it could. I mean emmy an emmy had to put up with what i had to put up with it and i was tough sometimes. Sometimes the graham. That's all that was yeah. That was a shame anyway. Well chris can. We go back to your earliest musical adventures back to your bluegrass days. You're mandolin apprenticeship. The scots for i i can never say that the scottsville squirrel barkers that's a dunk twister and the circumstances leading up to joining the birds is the bass player. Even though you'd never play bass before. Well i mean i was playing a squirrel. Barkers was the first ban. I was in and then i got hired into the golden state. Boys dwell in the golden state was vernon gosden and his brother gosden. God you're good. I mean and dawn banjo player so they were about ten twelve years older than i was and i get. I got the job. I don't know how. I was not a good player at all but don hired me. He was the leader of the band and we played together about six seven months. And then they had kids and families bluegrass. You couldn't make a living back in nineteen sixty three. And i got another job With this horrible group called the green grass group which was real close to beverly hillbillies portrayal of somebody from kentucky. You know what i'm saying. That every hillbillies tv show so this band was just not good but it was a hundred bucks a week in a place to stay and we played every night at this club in westwood california but then along comes the beatles in february of nineteen sixty four and of course we also saw that. I got a phone call from jim dixon. Who had been working with on the golden state boys and he said. Do you know david crosby. Let's call them roger right now. Roger mcguigan and gene. Clark said i know who they are. I don't remember. They know them. He said you should come down and listen to them. They're rehearsing every night at world. Pacific studios can you come down late. One night i said come out after my gig. I came down at one o'clock in the morning and heard him sing with one. Guitar may be two acoustic guitars and they were good. They were really good. Singers and jean had written songs. That were very good. It was very beadle. Ask and i had high standards. I had been working with gaza brothers and they were like unbelievably good singers three weeks later. I get a phone call from jim dickson again. He said David crosby was gonna be the base per doesn't want to do what he's not comfortable. Can you play the bass to me two seconds to answer this. I can handle it. I hadn't even held an electric bass you know. I'd messed around on a standard basement. Actually yeah i think i can handle that and i went down the couple of days later and i thought that i was gonna walk into the studio to in the morning and they were set up with drums a amps. Everything full full rock band. And i walk in. Woodwinds plugged into an old epo phone. Amp floor amp on the. He's the only one plug. I plug in with him on the base. Why clark has the drummer has a couple of cardboard boxes cymbal snare and that's it crosby or gene had a an acoustic guitar. Something not real interesting. And i walked in there and i said my god. What is this a skiffle band. You know sure yeah. Washboard yeah lennon gentleman was in a skiffle guy. Yes i couldn't skiffle band. I'd say word i'm okay so i plug in we start playing a Fultz and around on a base trying to figure it out but it we got a sound gone. you know. we didn't know what we were doing. We were all keeping out of folk music. But like i say it was an interesting eye-opener i realized they didn't none of us knew what we were doing. We plugged in and we went from there. Sure and you guys had the opportunity to hear yourselves back. Yeah exactly. We got a taped every night onto tracking but was a great eye-opener. Because you're going. Don't have a blueprint. We're not a garage rock ban. We would do cover songs. We'd do anything. Beatles song to a stone song when we didn't have enough material it's just dealt development quite a good way. I actually think..
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"hugh masekela" Discussed on Fresh Air
"I made it through but then i made up my mind. I wanted to be in this area. Music do pinned hall theatre and drama and pageantry was just surrounded him when he presented a show. And that's when. I really decided that was what i wanted to do. In the nineteen sixties in the early nineteen sixties. You started to play music inspired by the civil rights movement. Had you become an activist. Then i guess we always have been you know. It was something that you as i people. Ask me that quite often. But i go back to bessie smith black mountain blues and and then to duke ellington with his black brown day. And it's always been there. Hit ledbetter always spoke about the issues and the times that existed and many of the old black folk singers from the south street musicians dealt with it and so to me. it wasn't just. I had an opportunity to say something. And i used them in. Fact the sweet was commissioned by the youth movement of the n. Double acp we premade it here in philadelphia at one of their conventions. That's what it was pre. Nineteen sixty seven. It was it was. we originally commissioned. Do something for the centennial of the emancipates in proclamation. And so that's how it came about. Was it at all risky for you to do politically inspired music. Were were you going to. We did you run into any trouble in getting A recording dates afterwards or or club dates because of your involvement in the civil rights movement. And you know. I don't know i don't think so. I'll tell you what did happen. That was very positive. It sneaked into south africa around it. Was it went to south africa and sneak in it. It's as jazz musicians album until people read the liner notes. Put out by net hint off and the pieces were a comment. 'cause oscar brown's union of course was the lyricist sound on the on the work. It was a comment on the things that happened in charlottesville. The massacre and things like that so when you thousands in south africa Realized that this was not just as simply a jazz album. They banded and hit the upi and ap and became a celebrity record. And it's so more. I anything else in thing i had ever made at that time so something came out of it. Because of that and the musicians from south africa hugh masekela and dollar brand they were listening and buying it and taping it and things like that but it was somme how things turn around see so the freedom sweden wasn't now but i've i've always been an activist. I've got at that time. Of course my children were young. But you're always thinking about you know their future as well and the has to be they're gonna come up and be responsible human beings they have to have education and things like everyone else has and the society has to come a day that so i i guess i've always been an activist because then i wanna thank you very much for joining us today in talking with us. Thank you for being here. Pleasure drummer max. Roach in nineteen eighty-seven speaking with terry gross. We conclude our series of interviews with performers featured in the documentary summer of soul on monday with mavis staples and gladys knight. Let's hear max. Roach and abbey lincoln on freedom day from roaches album. We insist the freedom.
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"With mouthful of marble thin. Charlie parker was playing scales from the saxophone. Book just only scales. Max roots drop bombs. I don't know what is interesting. But powell had no left hand and It was it was criticized but but some of it was valid. I thought you know we. We had a long way to go drummer. Max roach speaking with terry. Gross in nineteen eighty. Seven we'll hear more after a break. This is fresh air. We're featuring interviews with performers who were at the nineteen sixty nine harlem cultural festival depicted in the quest love documentary summer of soul. Let's get back to terry's interview with drummer. Max roach was this the life you had planned on when you wanted to become a jazz musician because you started playing at a time when the big bands roy still around and being a jazz musician meant going on tour with earl hines or cab. Calloway duke ellington one of the big bands. But you actually came of age. You grew right after that you came of age time when it was small groups as you were saying before and the the life just became very different. It did well. I hadn't planned on really becoming Taking jazz music that seriously at the time but the war and all the things that did happen. And then while i was in my senior year at boys high. I'd said i had been. I met this gentleman clock monroe and working his after our club will sunny grid dukes. Great drummer was ill. And the most of the great germans were in the army. Like joe jones in the cabinet et cetera. I could read music so You know Clark kushner in those after spicy played as i said before for Dancy directly cafeteria. And you did all kinds of things and if when you got sick do kelly can call misdemeanor well for a. Did he know a drummer who could play. A show was at the new york paramount. He's got a kid who works club that plays a show and i went down to the paramount long story. She got on the stage and looked at mr grizz music stand. There was no music extent. And no music and i had couldn't play by ear at that time you know is about seventeen so everything was by semester. Ellington see before the curtain came up. He looked at me and so the fright of fear in my face and said keep one island me in one eye on the acts on the stage and i made it through but then i made up my mind. I wanted to be in this area. The music do hauling theater and the drama and the pageantry was surrounded him when he presented his show. And that's when. I really decided that that was what i wanted to do. In the nineteen sixties in the early nineteen sixties. You started to play music inspired by the civil rights movement. Had you become an activist. Then i guess we always have been you know something that you as i people ask me that quite often but i go back to bessie smith at black mountain blues and and into galveston with his black brown and beige and It's always been there. Had ledbetter always spoke about the issues and the times that existed and many of the old black folk singers from the south to street musicians dealt with it and so to me. it wasn't it was just. I had an opportunity to say something. And i use the in fact. The sweet was commissioned by the youth movement of the pm. We premediated here in philadelphia at one of their convention-style was put in nineteen. Sixty was it was it was. We originally commissioned to do something for the centennial of emancipation proclamation. And so that's how it came about. Was it at all risky for you to do politically inspired music were were you going to. Did you run into any trouble in getting A recording days afterwards or club dates because of your involvement in the civil rights movement. And you know. I don't i don't know how i don't think so. I'll tell you what did happen. It was very positive. It sneaked into south africa around it. Was it went into south africa and snake in it was taking out as a jazz musicians album until people read the line in notes. Put out by net hint off and the pieces were a comment because oscar brown of course was the lyricist sounded on the work. It was a comment on things that happened in sharpsville the mask and things like that so when you thousands in south africa Realized that this was not just as simply a jasmine album. They banded and hit the upi and ap and became a celebrity reckitt. And it's so anything else. In thing i had ever made at that time so something came out of it. Because of that and the musicians from south africa like hugh masekela and donald brandy. Were listening and buying it and taping in things like that but it was somme how things turn around see so the freedom. That wasn't but i. I've always been in activists have got that time. Of course. my children were young. But you're always thinking about you know their future as well and has to be. They're going to come up and be Responsible human beings they have to have education and things like everyone else has and the society has to comedy that so. I guess i've always been an activist because i want wanna thank you very much for joining us today in talking with us. Thank you for being here. Pleasure drummer max roach in one thousand nine hundred seven speaking with terry gross we conclude our series of interviews with performers featured in the documentary support for. Npr comes from this station and from flavio working to help brands deliver personalized email and sms campaigns that drive revenue and create genuine customer relationships at k. l. a. v. i. y. o. dot com slash. Npr and from fx presenting impeachment. American crime story. Ah limited series about the events that led to the first impeachment of a us president in over a century impeachment. American crime story premiered september seven at ten pm on affects. This is fresh air. We're featuring interviews with performers. Who were at the one thousand nine hundred sixty nine harlem cultural festival depicted in the quest love documentary summer of soul. Let's get back to terry's interview with drummer. Max roach was this the life you had planned on when you wanted to become a jazz musician. 'cause you started playing at a time when the big bands were still around and being a jazz musician meant going on tour with earl hines cab calloway. Duke ellington one of the big bands. But you actually came of age. You grew right after that. You came of age in a time when i was small groups as you were saying before and the life just became very different. It did well. I hadn't planned on really becoming Taking jazz music that seriously at the time but the war and all the things that did happen and then while i was in my senior boys high i said i had been i met this gentleman clog monroe and working. His after our club will sunny grid dukes. Great jemma was ill. And the most of the great drummers were in the army like joe jones in the cabinet et cetera. i could read music so You know 'cause in those after our spy she played as i said before for shake dancing cafeteria and you did all kinds of things and When suddenly got sick. Do pelican call misdemeanor. Well four diddy. No a drummer. Who could play a show. Doug was a paramount. He said i got a kid who works club. That plays a show and i went down to the neo paramount. Make a long story. She got on the stage and looked at mr grids music stand. There was no music stand. And no music and i had couldn't play by ear. That time you know is about seventeen so everything was by a semester. Allenton see before the curtain came up. He looked at me and so the fright of fear in my face and said keep one island me one eye on the acts on the stage and.
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"hugh masekela" Discussed on Fresh Air
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"hugh masekela" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Also producing the bob dylan paul simon and garfunkel line. Things but This record We did live at the gate and it broke out after two years. We didn't sixty four hundred sixty six became like the number one record in california. And i wanted to play the i was jazz festival I've been playing as an opening band all the time at the village gate. From time to time. I play the i watch festival tonight. I played over. Fifteen thousand people came and it was like a record attendance. So call my friend. stuart levine Later became my partner and produce. Most of my segment is the place. We should be coming back. So i've quite a big success in california and in nineteen sixty seven recorded a cover of the fifth. I mentioned upper no way and that went into the top thirty and i started traveling all over the country and took vacation and went to see. My sister wasn't university. Lusaka lot of friends and seeing me for seven years came From johannesburg you know the bread leg tape and pieces. And when i came back got a lot of them by conga music and the late l. abreu played with me on grazing in in that the quintet ahead. We went to studio doing that album. Promise of a future We need about four minutes More on the album. You didn't have another song and Ella remember that say lighted very much. Solomon that you always play the play. We should try and do that. 'cause it's simple parts. I just showed the piano play to do and sing for knows the best player. And we did it in one take and Six weeks later was number one You know after that hit in nineteen sixty eight that we were talking about prison in the grass. I think A lot of people lost track of you. You went to africa for for a long time in the nineteen seventies Did did you give up on america for a period there Not really. I mean to sit next to in coming from an oppressed people and and they're having a major success and the level and the brouhaha to which it goes you know and and it's marketplace and of course it was also a period of like i'm anti vietnam war activity and it was like the black power situation and conservative Government had just come in who Have very anti musician. And i've been living in california. And i just felt that peaked but like The the success was irrelevant in juxtaposition. To the position of my people know those are africa was inaccessible to me. I just felt like. I should get back into play somewhere in africa and i was crazy by the music of zairian of gun and guinea nigeria and a few friends. I gave myself an open ticket. Was that a good experience. For what i'm thinking. Is you said when you got to new york. That a lot of the jazz musician so he wanted to play with set to you. Do what's unique to you. Play african music as well. Everyone plays bebop play. What's what's really like your music and there were in africa. Getting reunited with musical with african musical forms. Was that a good experience for you. Kind of growth experience musically various ritual too because was a pilgrimage. I i was from africa but i'd never been there only stayed in township. I've been that'd been too. So i know ones but as different you know i got like i spent seven years where i lived with You know the people of guinea ghana zaire of nigeria gut Gut to learn the languages and You know the slang and the way to walk and talk and just the tradition day and it was a great revelation to me also like from associate political of you get a gut to know What africa's i mean. I've traveled all over senegal. Togo benin evan and was does nothing like seeing it firsthand enough because once it bites you. You always have to go back. I kept making glimpses into the states with african with african ben from west africa hours experiencing. I'm i was absorbing the continent. Thank you so much talking with us. Thank you my interview with you. Masekela was recorded in nineteen eighty eight. He died in two thousand eighteen at.
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"G connection in availability may vary check with carrier. It's been twenty years since the nine eleven attacks that changed our world this week on a story. Co podcast from npr. A look at the legacy of nine eleven through the stories of those closest to it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts on. Npr's how i built this hell. Linda wineman turned her fascination. For the first mac computer into lynda dot com publishing powerhouse that produced thousands of how to videos and sold for a billion and a half dollars subscriber. Listen now this get back to my one thousand nine hundred eighty eight interview with the late south african trumpeter kayla in the us. He's best known for his recording grazing in the grass. Which made it to number one in nineteen sixty eight if you don't think you know that recording. Maybe it will sound familiar because it's.
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"App on grazing. Grass was one of the biggest songs on the planet. Father realized it was this real hunger for black americans could feel and see taste. What would be like to be. African masekela played piano before learning to play trumpet when we spoke in nineteen eighty eight. I asked him about hearing jazz when he was growing up. No you know from the ten of centuries of africa dragged bands and reviews and dixieland bands because those are big industrial boom with the discovery of all the minerals and As a result. I would say that the great onslaught was experienced from the international money community and they brought their vic trawlers and Records with them and the instruments and Those radio and all that so the africans Cheap labor force but also people who who had years for music had access to instruments that were brush benz and they were like black bottom joints and shebeens and Municipal halls where a whole lot of bands played in the in south africa. Today when you walk around this guy's called jelly roll off buddy bolden Sach mall or duke account in like we grew up with duke ellington solid and cab calloway. And louis armstrong buddy boulton and jelly roll morton and king. Oliver played on a lot of bands. When when you were growing up nine. One of the band's you played in was the first black show that authorities allowed and mixed races To see what was that experience life. I've played in african jazz variety. When giant african variety variety delight a big touring review of sixty people. You know Miriam joined the year after i did. But it had all like the singing stars of south africa and it also groups like the woodpeckers who are like across between a realm and blues group maybe in the high lows you know the four freshmen with a time ship thing and was a comedian. That was beginning. A guy who Could sing like nat king cole. One guy could sing. Like and is all i big stars but incident towns like in cape town which was like a very liberal town than In durban they would allow Mixed crowds but it would be so far from the townships anyway that Only i would say like People who had caused access to transport because the townships about fifteen to twenty miles out of town would be able to come in a lot of people who had like what i'd call permits because when you're black and south africa you had to have a pass to be in a urban area of wide area after nine o'clock in the evening and he'd have to a night pass a letter signed by your boss employee musician and then so it didn't make it very easy but i don't think there was ever excitement in south africa in token being you know Sort of a token member of an integrated concert antiquated this and that because the reality of the place has always been a africa's. I basically oppressed that. Africans are very clear when they focus on what they want and. I don't think it's so much to integrate with people as much as to be as free as them and be able to have a choice just like all free people have you know. When for instance they morality act was was was Cut out in south africa where people are not supposed to make glove across color line and when they took the thought they'd be like a big onslaught of interracial coupling another but people have basically ignored it because i think that it encompasses The our vision of what freedom is about or what the freedoms are bud. My guest is trumpeter and composer kayla. When you left south africa you left on a music. Scholarship to study in england and america how you able to get the scholarship and i should ask you. I did. Did you plan on leaving for good. Did you want to get out of south africa for good when you accepted that scholarship. Well when i was the dean years movie but the great big by the big called young men with on character and At that time. I was in boarding school and the school belong to a community of monks from england called the community of the resurrection of which travel huddleston. Which is bishop trevor. Huddleston now his head of anti-apartheid And defense an aide you know it's In england was a chaplain and the superior of This community and they worked in health wealth and education among africans and he was also kind of who'd lum priest and i was going through a very rough time with authorities at the boarding school and i was called to him and he said what do you really want to do. Because he's young too explicit father so movie called the hunt and if i can get a trumpet i'll never anybody again. So he went to the local store and Studied number fifteen pounds is a guy who might come and steal this haunt if we can make a deal and buy bite for him and of course. The rest was history but from there on. I got into like You know. I was already passed swing and what was a very big that You know grown up with my aunts and uncles and my parents are all very very. Because the breakable. Seventy s. And i got into bebop so by the time was fifteen sixteen hours playing with them but ganga bands and ms lego groups like african jazz did went on the road and township jazz and then jazz groups and modern jazz concerts in mostly dance bands. But i started to become a student of bebop and that pulled me more. And more intellect on intellect figuring that i had such a deep love for. I mean i had enjoyed dizzy. Gillespie the injured. Louis armstrong and you know trump does before but people like miles davis and fats navarro and like clifford brown especially just blew me away and i said well i have to be able to go where these guys can learn to play like that and i knew that of course. The main destination was new york. I mean those people in johannesburg Were jazz Collectors tell you. Charlie parker was playing any states on this date in. Who'd been based on it'd be on drums. Someone who are really very deep into it and they could get along with all the songs. Well when you got to america and you actually had some access to the people who who you've been listening to for so long. Were you able to play with them and did did. Did you are rhythms. Which were kind of african-based jazz work well with with. There's when i got yo was really a hot. You know be will play but everybody in the all the musicians that i met especially dizzy and bella funder said well you know a whole lot of people can do what you doing you know as far as bieber is concerned. But there's something else that you have from your home and if you can Sort of Come to marriage with what you know. What do you have traditionally on a just culture from your home with what you know the musically you might come up with a hybrid of your own head. People might be tend onto. We're listening to my nineteen eighty-eight interview with the late. South african trumpeter humza kayla one of the musicians featured in the concert documentary summer of soul which streaming on hulu. We'll hear more of the interview after a break. This is fresh air this message comes from. Npr sponsor total wireless. Which helps you stay connected and turn your experiences from good to amazing with the best devices network and savings. When you move to total wireless you can get an unlimited plan. Starting at twenty five dollars a month that includes five g. available in twenty seven hundred plus cities capable device and sim required terms and conditions at total wireless dot com. This message comes from. Npr sponsor samsung with the samsung galaxy. Z fold three five g. See more and do more with the ultimate foldable screen. That puts a workspace theater and game room. Right in your pocket. 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"Miss. The saturday ed's draw. It's all lit de with hugh dog get around much anymore. Thought i'd visit the club as far as the joe's good and barrett with you. I don't get around much anymore. yes paddy last. Why stir up memories owned dates.
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"I'm terry gross. And this is fresh air. This message comes from. Npr sponsor samsung with the samsung galaxy. Z fold three five g. Work smarter not harder and from virtually anywhere on this powerful multifaceted phone that makes multitasking a breeze schedule meetings and seconds or reference and added multiple docks at the same time. And now would their revolutionary. Espen you can jot down notes while video calling no paper necessary. Five g connection and availability may vary check with carrier. Let's get back to my nineteen ninety-six interview with bb king one of the musicians featured in the concert documentary summer of soul which was released earlier this summer and a streaming on hulu. The film documented the nineteen sixty nine harlem cultural festival and the changes it represented in black culture and politics over the summer of sixty nine. The festival presented a series of free concerts featuring top soul hornby gospel jazz and blues performers. When we left off we were listening to. Bb king's record three o'clock blues. It was his first record. That went to number one on the charts. How did that record. Change your life while the changed. My life in many ways one thing financially. Because i had been making about sixty dollars a week at this radio station. And i would go out and pick cotton. I would drive trucks and tractors. I did everything to try to make ends meet if you will. House music wasn't taking care of when i made Three o'clock blues. I started then to get guarantees. Maybe like four five hundred dollars a day. When i played out and that made a big difference just defense rather as far as financially speaking because then i could hire more people to work with me. May life easier could get a driver to keep from having to drive all the different places by myself and my wife. And i was able to live better able to pay the band better. I was able to do many things that i hadn't been able to do prior to that and of course my Popular too much much more popular. If you will. And i just started to fill them that. I was a real entertainer in the mid sixties. I guess it was a lot of the rock. Qataris started emulating you. I mean you became a god to some of them Mike bloomfield eric clapton. And that helped introduce your music to college audiences and then you started playing the college circuit in addition to the places. You'd already been playing. What was it like for you to start playing the college circuit. Did you feel like Did feel very different to you. Did you feel like you needed to change anything about your performance style was or anything you're doing that didn't seem to translate yes. I was frightened. That i here i am high school dropout and i'm going to be playing college audiences Yes i felt that. I should wear hot hat and fred astaire or net coal swab. Yeah but i remember. After three o'clock blues. I had a manager. My manager said do not go to new york trying to be net cold or anybody else that's trying to be slick because there are people that sweeping the floors that much better than you'll ever be so the best thing for you to do is go there and be b b king. What good is saying three o'clock blues saying this song that you sing the way you sing. He said now all these other people can do all of those other things. But the can't be you as you can be you and that i've tried to keep from then until now i have met over the years a lot of people who've worked with you or toured with you and It's just not possible to get anybody to say a bad word about you. I mean your reputation is of somebody who treats everybody around him really well with a lot of respect always fair financially and in other ways as well. And i'm just wondering if that's something that you consciously set out to do if they're if i'm not just trying to be nice here i mean i think it's just it's just a kind of a fact that you're known for this and i wonder if you think of yourself just naturally mister nice guy or if it's something that you've you've felt really obliged to do and have been very conscious about doing There are some things that i've read that i truly believe in. I believe that one should treat others as he wanted to be. Treated and That's one of the things. I try to live by. If you will is trying to be fair to people. I want them to be to me. One of your recordings that i particularly love happens to be recording with the duke ellington orchestra recording of. Don't get around much anymore right. I mean you don't even play tar on this. It's so strange it's such a. It's such a unusual recording. I had a field of sing with the ellington orchestra and frightening guitar. I don't think i was afraid to try. The saying and then trying to play guitar would have been just too much but today. I'm from more familiar with a lot of the standard tunes. And i would like to try and play the melodies instead of singing bb king. It's really been such a delight to talk with you. Thank you very very much for your time thank you. You're very kind to talk with..
Fresh Air
"hugh masekela" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Loser sunrise. And you've got a response very much. So silent boy seemed like it was a very big guy you know is is is not very clear. Look little red like and he was a very big felon at that time. I weighed about one hundred and twenty seven and he He he stood about six six feet or more. And looking down on me. You know like You better seeing right in. I said yes. We ended up getting your own radio. Show as well as your own gigs in memphis when you're on the radio one of the things that we had to do was was seeing right and then seeing a jingle for peptic kahn which was what a kind of cure all remedy yes peptic con was Tonic that was to be good for whatever ails you and we sold a lot of it. And i think a lot of it had to do. I didn't learn until much later that it was twelve percent alcohol so a lot of older people bought it especially church people about a lot of the only way to drink and be legit. Well i want to say that. But i do know that they bought it. I used to ride the trucks on the weekend with a saleman and people would stand in line. Saw like going to a concert movie. No wanna get to another record recorded in nineteen fifty two. You're twenty six. This is a recording of three o'clock blues. It had been a hit a few years before. Folsom This was your first number one record on the r&b charts. I you coming into your own here. Don't you think as a stylus. I'm very happy. Gotta know that. Somebody told me that i have a hit record very happy to hear that. I think that's music to each performance ear to hear that they have a top selling record.
Fresh Air
"hugh masekela" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Of sharecroppers. What was the work that you had to do. Well i was in a regular when i was about seven chop cotton. I picked cotton hip to plant it. I did everything that The grownups do and that's mostly The work had to do with cotton was the king if you will of The produce and mississippi delta. When i was growing up peanuts maybe later and soybeans later but cotton still is today one of the main producers that's raised in mississippi delta. What was the financial arrangement between your family and the plantation. Owner well sharecropper meant to be exactly what they say. Share cropper but generally the boss that owned the plantation. Did all of the paperwork if you will. He was the cpa He sold the produce that you raised for example family of maybe five or six would have maybe a hundred acres to to work and maybe they would make twenty twenty five bales of cotton and it was all dealt with through the plantation owner and at the end of the year say late December before. Christmas maybe two weeks. So that's when we do what they call supplement and this is all done through the trust of the plantation. Owner other words sharecropper had nothing to do with it except what was Told to him that had to do with this. his earnings. For example the gem you earned after paying me back. The advances i gave. You may twenty five bills of cotton and cotton brought Maybe five thousand dollars bail and you owed being say twenty five time that except maybe two thousand dollars. So here's your eighteen hundred you you know. You grew up on a plantation then. Left it to go to memphis which is where you started. Really playing music professionally. It's a great story. How you left the plantation. You were driving a tractor. Problematic track. There that had had problems with after ignition. So when do you turned off. The tractor walked out of the tractor and the tractor started jumping on. Its own rammed into the barn. The exhaust pipe got crushed or broke off broke off And and you're afraid of how much money you though the plantation frayed that i would be killed even worse. Well he'd never kill anybody. But i don't mean it that way but scared to death you know like if you Imam cooked cake. And you decided that You know you're going to get a pizza and you drop it. You know and spills on the floor brand new kick made for the family. You would feel that mom is gonna surely you get out of it. Well that's the way. I felt that the the time that the tractor When it backfired you know and ran out into their Scared me half that. So i panicked left left Hitchhike to memphis going from india. Nola to memphis then was like oh to me like leaving chicago going to Philly that that's the way it seem at the time. So i was scared to death. I left hand. State for a while and communicated back with my family and my cousin book lights and gone back. Then take your less. Take take you madison. So i finally went back. And mr barrot was a very nice guy a man that i admired so much. I wish i could be a lot more like him. You know the good thing is too. Is that this. The accident forced you to leave the plantation. Maybe you wouldn't have left if it was no no no. I had planned to leave you. Do yes i had planned to leave at work with. A group called Saint john's gospel singers. And we thought we very good and believe it or not. I thought we was getting close to being like the sole stairs. You know sam cooke you got it. The golden gate quartet that was The peer grim travellers and many other quartets that we admired and wanted to be like. I'm we've you know kind of good opening act for some of them. And i'd wanted leave two three years before that however i had asked the guys A couple of years before the to leave you know let's go. Let's i believe we're ready. And each time the crops would be bad or something like that and somebody would have an excuse. Well we didn't do so well this year. Let's try it again next year and i was about fed up with hearing that was about ready to go anyway. Memphis like when you got there. What impresses you the most i was like. Oh let's say you lived in cairo. Illinois move to chicago. Wow that's what memphis was like. Wow how great big city. I'd never been in a city that lies before and did you feel like hey. This city is mine. Or did you feel like i don't belong here. No i felt that it was a place of learning. Because i was lucky. My cousin a white lived there. And i had a chance to meet a lot of people when i came to memphis and i would go down. Bill street And hear all these fine musicians playing especially on the weekends memphis with solid like again Chicago ended the major metropolitan areas. People was coming through going east or west Other words were sudden like A meeting place. If you will port for people traveling from different place so i had a chance to meet a lotta great giants in the business jazz. And otherwise so i i felt it was something or place rather that i could learn blues. Man sonny boy williamson had a radio show and you to memphis king biscuit time and you went up to him and asked to sing on the program. I it seems to me like a. You must have had the courage to just come in like that well before. I left an indian ola. My hometown in mississippi. I used to hear sonny boy over in helena. Arkansas would come on air each day. Twelve fifteen and For about fifteen minutes for the king biscuit company. And i felt that that i knew i miss saw the like watching Tv or listening to you. Personally listen to you feel that they can trust you. Fill that they really know you. You become like on naming the family. So that's the way. I felt when i met him. I did know him but um seemed to me. I had known him all this time. So when i got to memphis he was in west memphis Which is across mississippi river in arkansas. I went over. And i felt. I guess i would have been hurt very badly. Had he not talk with me he let you sing on his show. Yes he did. I guess he said a guy got this much nerve and i'm very only looking I think one of our joe hunter song ivory joe hunter familiar with was a A great songwriter. Great musician he made a lot of tunes one One or two that you probably have heard Anyway i sing one of his tunes called.
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"hugh masekela" Discussed on Fresh Air
WBEZ Chicago
"hugh masekela" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"I saw this footage and instantly um, I got I'll be honest with you. I got scared because I was like, Wow, you guys are really trusting a first time driver. To tell to correct not only to make a movie, but really correct history and you don't get you don't get a second chance to correct history. Like I have to make history, not even telling it, but I have to make it and have to make it right. So you know there's this. This is my goal kick. I have to that ball has to go in the net. Quest, Love and I urge you all to see Summer of soul If you haven't already who knew Stevie Wonder? Could drum Egyptian filmmaker 18 Armin and film critic Guy Lodge are my guests today? So for me watching summer of soul was the gift that kept giving Just when you thought there couldn't be another historic music performance on that stage, Mavis Staples arrives the fifth dimension, as Lauren said there. Signed the family stone, Hugh Masekela, But more than that, the fact that these artists weren't recognized and celebrated as we now celebrate them. There was a kind of cultural apartheid going on. I felt, um guy. What were your thoughts? Yeah, there really was because I was thinking about how I was born in the eighties. So But even then I knew about Woodstock from when I was a child. You know, it was kind of Baked into the culture. Everyone knew that Woodstock and my parents kind of it was a Touchstone for them, and I asked my parents actually when I saw some of so it's like, Have you ever heard of These things. They're both into music, and they were like No. And I told them who was there like we wish we had, uh And I said, it's revelator in that respect, But what I really like about the film is that It makes this very powerful comments on black Eurasia and the way certain culture kind of Rises to the surface. Historically uncertain culture does not, um But it makes this entirely implicitly through the kind of vitality of the footage and trust the audience to make that. Connection. It's not a lecture. It's It's a celebration. Um And it's done entirely archival, which I think is incredible. And what's with with a few talking heads watching the army life? Yeah, and I think what is Was so clever about getting quest love to direct because, as he says, in that clip, he's seen the fairly unlikely choice. But I think having a musician direct that footage and Edit that footage is it's edited and filmed like music. It's got that rhythms. Yes, totally exhilarated. He said that you know when he was afraid it was just think of it like you're about to program or curator DJ set. And how would you put it together at the heart of summer of soul is Passion in a sense to tell a forgotten story. 18 other Forgotten stories that you want to tell as a filmmaker, a lot of forgotten stories here In Egypt, For example, there was a book that I really love that was written in English by an Egyptian writer. It was written in the sixties and and the straighter only wrote this book and committed suicide afterwards. And this book is like a very good military peace. And at the same time it's not recognized here because it was just like six or seven years ago only translated in Arabic. This is like a book that I would really like to adapt or to make an on screen. One day the book is called Beer in the Super Club. The author's name is what he really He was studying the history of Egypt through the eyes of minority. So beer in the snooker club. Great cheese, isn't it? It's great. You're listening to the arts and on the BBC World Service. I'm Nikki Baby, sometimes as a broadcaster, you have to shrug off the need to be cool when you meet impressive people, and just tell them that you're a fan. Well. Recently, The BBC's Antonio Quirk had the chance to do just that. Whilst interviewing movie star Jude Law about his latest film the Nest, She shared her appreciation for one of his earlier films. 1990 Nines. The talented Mr Ripley directed by Anthony Minghella. And one scene in particular between the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude where they're both listening to jazz. I remember that they really, really well first of all. Anthony was very, very Attuned to making Everything is real as possible. So we had this smoke filled Replicated record shop in the back street of Rome somewhere. Remember it was boiling hot because I think it was late August we were filming. I mean, I've been learning a saxophone for three months so saturated in jazz anyway, we had both jazz blasting all day long. I'm Phillip Hideaway. Of Somehow playing the psychological drama of the same Other parts with the other actors without them, really knowing it, and they hope I'm not. I'm not trying to stoke some issue here because there was it was never done in a way. That was mean. But He was always He was always slightly off with math, and he did it with a lot of love, But he teased my a lot. And looking back, having worked with him again, Philip again. I realized what he was really doing was sort of playing Freddie, Um Freddie gets Ripley a hard time the whole time. And so there was a lot of that coming on off camera. And Matt is the greatest gracious gentleman who I remember just sort of laughing along with it. So I remember that was going on around me, which made me laugh. It's very interesting looking back. Because I was Able, almost without knowing it to step into the skin of Dickie because I was sort of living Dickie's life. I couldn't believe my good fortune of being an accompanying the cost with such wonderful actors on such a wonderful film. I was in Italy learning to sail and playing the saxophone and so In a way that sort of beams of joy that were coming out of decay at all times were very much me realizing I was still having the time of my life. Really, and looking back. I was so and I guess what I'm saying, and all those three little snapshots is that there was a lot of authenticity. And again with on reflection. You know, that's one of the greatest things you can sort of trying to achieve in film, because it is capturing lightning in a bottle. And if you can create moments like that, and it gets captured, then I think people really Pick up on it. You still play the saxophone, dude? Well, my son started learning. And I mean, no. Yeah. Yes, I can. I picked it up a year ago like it's still blow out a couple of tunes. Mm Antonio.
The Ready State
"hugh masekela" Discussed on The Ready State
"And you're not helping brown no problem and that's how i started surfing and i was lucky that these kids were all really good surfers. They weren't they didn't just serve. They were they were surfers like they lived for it. They were second second generation in their family type surfers and they were super passionate about it but i think they also kind of took for granted what it was that they did buy for me. It was just like massive wildlife discovery getting it. That late opened me up to like spiritual metaphysical portions of myself. That i did not know existed and i really attacked it with my whole heart. Kid let me a wetsuit. Another guy's dad gave me an old beat up surfboard. He actually loaned it to me. And then i never gave it back and they were all right. Keep it and that was it. And you're talking about the spiritual and the metaphor the metaphysical like real things. But my carl's junior experience. When i moved to southern california was the green burrito. You remember that place. yes jason. Yeah it was very it was an adjacent food situation. So you mentioned briefly and i really would love to learn a little bit about your dad. I know he passed away a couple years ago. And i'm sorry about that but i think he was a legendary musician from south africa. And i have a feeling he influenced you in many ways. So i'd love to just have you tell us a little bit about him. In fact one of our friends was just here at the studio doing some work and we said we were going to talk to you. And he's like any to that other masakela and and he was like. Oh my god. Oh my god and also just to add tack on another question. Do you think his own activism around south african apartheid has influenced your activism more. How has how has it a great two-parter thank you for the for the two piece. My dad was hugh masekela. A legendary trumpeter flew a horn player singer and activist by default. He was a political exile of south africa during the apartheid regime. In came here in the late fifties went to school. The manhattan school of music started playing with miles davis mingas. And you know. All the greats of that era ended up having a huge career as he fused modern bebop jazz. At the time with his traditional south african music that he was raised with and created helped to create the sound called music but while he was experiencing all this success he could not go home he could not share it with his family because he spoke out against apartheid in a way that if he'd gone back to south africa he risked being jailed for life or killed and it was real. He had plenty of other friends that both had happened. What was amazing about my father in for me growing up Earliest relationship Earliest relationship memories with my father was spent in the jazz club with him at like five six years of age like my dad had me on the weekends. Instead of taking me to the park we went to the club at night as a youngster. I would be in in the club. He'd be plan like jazz sets which would be one of eleven and then another one like one thirty and we'd leave the club at like three thirty in the morning. sometimes i'd be asleep. Boots fell asleep to his music. I got to spend my time watching him. Performance story retail and musically. What he did was he took people on a journey that made them feel what south africa was. The tasted like what it smelled. Like what it sounded like an he told stories about this this very brutal regime. This government that was rooted in a in a very genius in brilliant execution of racism by law. And i say brilliant because it worked it worked too well that you know four or five million dutch and british people were able to subjugate you know. Twenty five million native south africans to the point. Where like you needed. Let's say. I wanted to come down. Where where are you guys located. North of san francisco or like you didn't get didn't give up zip code never if i wanted to come and see you in marin i would need a passport and a reason why i would be walking the streets of marin and someone could stop. Anyone could stop me. And ask to see my papers in if it was deemed illegitimate that i was there. I sure wouldn't be there for leisure. I would be working for someone in the area. Then i would be arrested. Jailed never seen. If i buy my family if if they chose to do so beaten all those type of things that was what my father existed and it was worse than that i was just kind of one of the the light laws if you will and so. I got to watch my dad really passionately story. Tell what he was fighting for like he was happy to have in excess but he was also longing to go home and people didn't believe that apartheid was going to end anytime soon. Most people didn't know what it was politically. It was uses a football. The united states at the time during under the reagan administration absolutely supported the south african government and try to make it sound sound like apartheid was something that was good for the african people. And you know the tropes of like you know these people are. They're just trying to keep their people safe etcetera etcetera when behind the scenes like it was genius and it wasn't until the late eighties because of the awareness of people like my father and other artists. Paul simon did a great job with his graceland album which my dad played on to help amplify that people start be like. Hey wait a minute. This is bad you know and then it would start being on the news and people started seeing the man in which africans were being slaughtered at the hands of the government and it started to change and as soon as soon as my dad knew he was able to go home safely he moved back to south africa in one thousand nine hundred and lived there until he died in two thousand eighteen. You continue to travel make music around the world but he. He went home so to answer your question. My father was never silent when it came to oppress people and racism and just general imbalances in how we see people and so for me. Yeah would it be easier if i kept my mouth shut. Yes perhaps always convenient. there'd be convenient for sure. Yeah it'd be more convenient. But i would also be miserable in that way. Yeah and especially in the last few years some of the The blatant imbalances in barriers to entry for people being able to live their best lives exists in some of the spaces. I plan than it's my job to give. Some perspective hopefully be able to open minds begin some dialogue and help people shift into the idea of opening and expanding landscape so that we can celebrate the joys of living at this level as together as possible and that idea unfortunately gives the shit out of some some people. I.
The Ready State
"hugh masekela" Discussed on The Ready State
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Being the most influential parts of his life at the age of sixteen. You felt at home on a surfboard at eight. He find him sitting at bird land in late night. Jazz sessions with his father and miles davis. It's this unique life experience which paved the way for him. Not only to become the face of espn's x. games but also a musician himself recording underneath the alias. Alica sam that's masekela backwards. His recently launched podcast what shapes us explores he and his guests human experiences who they are what drives gives them joy. It's this mission to highlight people and places through a mold breaking lens and redefine culture. He's the co founder of stoked mentoring an organization dedicated to mentoring at risk youth through action sports and the host of hyundai's series. The un adventures on tastes made network and twenty twenty salama was also welcomed on the board of directors for burton snowboards as a general adviser. Salama welcome to the podcast. My friend thank you for having me. It is a high honor to sit with you on this friday midget right to the burning question. Everyone has which is. I feel like your ears aren't very good backside one. That's because you're the second adult size man who actually back squats and muscle mass. I mean that's the kind of thing on you on the internet. You know what it's the truth and baxter's have been the bane of my existence since time just because everyone has a thing that they that they're not that is like their achilles heel like tony hawk. I forget there's a trick that he can't do the watts he's like yeah. I can't i just can't grab my boy that way. That's why i always with this win all but Yeah back are. I think it's just too much mass going on the lack of quad dominance just makes it hard for me to get back there. What i love. Is i just saw dominance. Kelly now wants to be your best friend forever. You said quad dominance and quad. Dominance is something that we say around the yard is that because you you don't you're too quad dominant or you wanna be quad dominant like that guy's quad dominant check out the quad dominance on that woman i was one squad dominant and then i learned how to recruit everything that was going on behind me and became a better athlete and so yeah now. The the quad dominance has ended. We have so much to to start with. But let's take a slightly different tack for second because a quick bio of you which everyone is heard. And i think you're living under a rock if you haven't been involved in action sports and all of the advocacy that you've been doing for a minute. Don't think you're gonna skip over all those questions coming back on me on a but you have seen the evolution of these will call. I don't actually sport is in the right word. Lifestyle sports.
The Vibe Juice Podcast
"hugh masekela" Discussed on The Vibe Juice Podcast
"He date from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety. Nine do do do. Do do doo. Doo. dum dum dum doo doo. Doo doo doo doo time. No okay. okay Doc doc Dr jeffrey vanna white okay. The theory is he dated time. Daily daily started this show with her and the other woman. Yeah that's george. Debra brown was married in nineteen dated dying. They would benign the air they live together. I think for a while real talk. Yeah let's happy controversial at the time. Yeah because when they did the two women cop partner. Cagney lezo right. That's right that that was already controversy. It was and then. I saw her And you know. And she talked about in his her husband without not having but her man is sitting there it which was clancy right. Yeah i remember that. I like win a nigga the house and now and you you is other woman is trying to play. You know the old partner. The cop partners right is one of them. I think one of them was a lesbian so she got up got a little stevie wonder so on that we're going to close but i wanted taught in the next time we come back. I wanna say a movie that i did see and we'll talk about it In the upcoming podcast but somersault and let me just tell you just a little bit until summer. Sol- was A film it was recorded nine. Nine hundred sixty nine but it's set in a basement on a shelf somewhere in harlem for fifty years now and this was a big concert while woodstock was going on. There was summer soul and then nobody heard anything after so but the lineup included abbey lincoln. Hugh masekela gladys knight and the pips. Willie bobo mongo santamaria. Stevie wonder sly and the family stone nina simone staple singers. Bb king fifth dimensions. David roughened mahalia jackson. Up in a way. And did i say staples singers. Yeah so make sure. Did you People you don't make sure you check out quest love. This is all to quest. Love big up in my beautiful you to a am a beautiful blue lose marilyn mccoo all right y'all so anyway so that's been Episode thirty three of the jews may third thirty three. My band is thirty. Three three thirty four coming up. Y'all so thanks for tuning in be sure to like subscribe share and check out another week he's lack.
All Things Considered
Afrobeat Drummer Tony Allen Died of Heart Attack in Paris
"Drummer Tony Allen is widely hailed as one of the founders of afrobeat alongside his longtime musical partner Philip boutique the seventy nine year old Allen died Wednesday evening in Paris of heart attack NPR's honest ideas he'll guess has this appreciation sitting behind his drum kit Tony Allen used his whole body to lay out intricate poly rhythms with all four limbs Ellen didn't begin playing drums until he was eighteen years old but just months later he became a professional musician Alan met Fela Kuti in the early nineteen sixties and the Lakers Nigeria and in nineteen sixty nine the forms the legendary bands the seventy no one was injured the band's drummer he was its musical director blaring horns and soaring vocals often with highly political lyrics over driving through in nineteen seventy nine and in part because he felt he wasn't being recognized and compensated for his contributions but he continued to be a musical adventurer dipping into everything from Afro funk electronica his last album was released only last month it's a collaboration with the late south African trumpeter Hugh Masekela some of Tony Allen's own music was explicitly political but he believed in rejoicing in the small things of life too as he told NPR in two thousand ten CellaVision is everybody does we would look at it is like this every day we said it's a message he delivered through his exuberant music for more than five