Friends (Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis album)

2012 studio album by Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis

Friends

Studio album by Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis

Released

15 June 2012 (2012-06-15)

Studio

Pretoria, South Africa

Genre

Jazz

Length

59:25

Label

House of Masekela HOM001

Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis chronology

Jabulani
(2012)

Friends
(2012)

Playing @ Work
(2012)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Telegraph

Friends is a collaborative album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American jazz pianist Larry Willis. The album is the sequel to Almost Like Being in Jazz released in 2005. Recorded in Pretoria, Friends premiered in Cape Town at the Mahogany Room in April 2012. It is a four-piece album, a 39-track boxset reworking of American jazz standards, released on the new record label, House of Masekela.

References

Hewett, Ivan (9 June 2015). "Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis, Barbican, review: 'royally entertaining'". The Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
Effinger, Shannon J. (1 May 2012). "Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis: FRIENDS". revive-music.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
"Friends: Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis warm up the Music Circuit". Design Indaba. designindaba.com. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
"Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis: FRIENDS Past Performance". jazz.org. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
"Hugh Masekela, Larry Willis – Friends". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

External links

Official website

v t e Hugh Masekela
Studio albums	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)
Compilation albums	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)
Live albums	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)
Singles	"Up-Up and Away" "Grazing in the Grass" "Skokiaan"
Books	Still Grazing (2004)

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