The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela

{{Infobox album

| name = The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela

| type = live

| artist = Hugh Masekela

| cover = The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela - album cover.jpg

| border = yes

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| released = December 1968

| recorded = November 1965

| venue = The Village Gate, New York City

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = MGM SE-4468

| producer = Tom Wilson

| prev_title = Africa '68

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = Masekela

| next_year = 1969

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|title=Hugh Masekela – The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/lasting-impressions-of-hugh-masekela-mw0000992493|website=Allmusic|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=30 April 2016|first=Bruce|last=Eder}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|date=27 May 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&dq=The+Encyclopedia+of+Popular+Music+-+hugh+masekela&pg=PA1202|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|page=1203|accessdate=26 April 2017}}

|rev3 =The Penguin Guide to Jazz

|rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Cook|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Cook, Richard|page=862|url=https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/862/mode/2up|accessdate=21 August 2020 |language=en}}

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The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela is a 1968 live album by South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela.{{cite web|title=Hugh Masekela: Hugh Masekela Is Alive and Well at the Whisky|url=https://www.discogs.com/Hugh-Masekela-The-Lasting-Impression-Of-Hugh-Masekela/release/1164597|website=Discogs|publisher=discogs.com|accessdate=30 April 2016}}

Background

The album was released by MGM Records label, which Masekela left several years ago.{{cite web|title=Hugh Masekela - Biography|url=https://www.amoeba.com/hugh-masekela/artist/116209/bio|website=Amoeba Music|publisher=amoeba.com|accessdate=13 July 2017}} It was recorded at The Village Gate, New York City, in November 1965 during the same sessions as The Americanization of Ooga Booga and released as a separate album in December 1968.{{cite web|title=DISCOGRAPHY: 1955-1969|url=http://www.dougpayne.com/hmd5569.htm#EMANCIPATION|publisher=dougpayne.com|accessdate=30 April 2016}} In 1996 Verve Records released a CD named The Lasting Impression of Ooga-Booga, which included tracks from The Americanization of Ooga Booga and five tracks from the present record without "Child of the Earth".

Reception

A reviewer of Dusty Groove stated: "One of Hugh's best albums for MGM – with some tracks that are longer than his late 60s pop tunes, and which feature him stretching out more in a soulful mode, hitting some fuzzy Afro funk grooves that are very nice! Hugh's soulful trumpet is in fine fine form..."{{cite web |title=Hugh Masekela: Lasting Impression Of Hugh Masekela |url=https://www.dustygroove.com/item/12276?sf=Hugh+Masekela&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=Hugh+Masekela&sort_order=artist |publisher=Dusty Groove |accessdate=16 January 2019}} Bruce Eder of AllMusic wrote: "The remainder of Hugh Masekela's winter 1965 Village Gate set sat in the can for three years, until 'Grazing in the Grass' became a hit in 1968 on the Uni label. Then the label rushed out with the six-track Lasting Impressions of Hugh Masekela LP, which was a match musically for its predecessor, The Americanization of Ooga Booga."