cover image: Hugh Masekela holding up the trumpet, admiring the touch, shine and shape

Hugh Masekela holding up the trumpet, admiring the touch, shine and shape

1956

DM2003011721:SAED:SOCIAL:PERSONALITY:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:ENTERTAINMENT:PERSONALITY:1956 - Hugh Masekela, Great Jazz Trumpeter - Hugh holding up the trumpet, admiring the touch, shine and shape. Hugh Masekela still a teenager, toured Southern Africa in the African Jazz Show and, in 1959, he led the brass section of King Kong. He went to London and later to the States, where he studied music and married Miriam Makeba. (Photograph by Drum photographer © BAHA) neg T250 caption taken from the fifties book
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Drum / Drum Social Histories / Bailey's African History Archive / african.pictures
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APN32773
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APN32773
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South Africa

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