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NEW COLLABORATION ‘REJOICE’ WITH TONY ALLEN, OUT MARCH 20th VIA WORLD CIRCUIT RECORDS
23rd January 2020
Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela talked for decades about making an album together. When, in 2010, their touring schedules coincided in the UK, the moment presented itself and producer Nick Gold took the opportunity to record their encounter. The unfinished ... Read more

National Civil Rights Museum unveils Freedom Award winners
17th August 2017

"When we identified these three honorees, we didn't know what was going to happen last weekend"
South African jazz artist and freedom fighter Hugh Masekela (who had a No. 1 hit in 1968 with "Grazing in the Grass"), second-generation activist Bernice A. King (youngest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s four children), and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees (who won a $7 million judgment in a lynching case that bankrupted one of America's largest Ku Klux Klan organizations) will be [Read more]