| The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Hugh Masekela |
| Cover: | The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela - album cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | December 1968 |
| Recorded: | November 1965 |
| Venue: | The Village Gate, New York City |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | MGM SE-4468 |
| Producer: | Tom Wilson |
| Prev Title: | Africa '68 |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | Masekela |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela is a 1968 live album by South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela.[1]
The album was released by MGM Records label, which Masekela left several years ago.[2] 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.[3] 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".
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..."[4] 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."