"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 13 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Hugh Masekela is rated as an impressive live performer, with many notable strengths. Hugh Masekela concert reviews describe live shows and performances as memorable, eclectic, inventive, joyous, and adventurous.
But on this occasion he strolled on with his old friend the pianist Larry Willis and this pair of grizzled old-timers entertained us royally for 90 minutes.
He has always been an inventive eclectic musician famed in the jazz world for his flugelhorn work but equally celebrated for bringing African music to a global audience.
Partnered only by long-time pianist friend Larry Willis Masekela entranced the Royal Festival Hall with music and yarns about his jazz life and his life as a South African under apartheid.
This was largely because his most recent album Jabulani – recorded as a tribute to all the township weddings he went to as a child and youth – was marred by sentimentality and a lacklustre production.
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