MASEKELA, HUGH

MASEKELA, HUGH. Jazz trumpeter (4 April 1939 in Wilbank [near Johannesburg], South Africa). He attended missionary schools from the age of nine and first studied piano at school. When he was fourteen he was inspired to learn trumpet after seeing the film Young Man with a Horn (1949). He began playing with South African dance bands during his high-school years and toured to major cities. In 1959 he went to London, England, where he studied at the Guildhall School of...