| Uptownship | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Hugh Masekela |
| Cover: | Uptownship - album cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Recorded: | November 1988 – July 1989 |
| Studio: | Evergreen Studios (New York City), Quantum Studios (Jersey City, NJ), Baby Monster Studios (NYC), RCA Studios (NYC) |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 01:01:26 |
| Label: | Novus Records 3070 |
| Producer: | Hugh Masekela, John Cartwright, Morris Goldberg, Rick Rowe |
| Chronology: | Hugh Masekela |
| Prev Title: | Tomorrow |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Beatin' Aroun de Bush |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Uptownship is a 1989 studio album by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela.[1] It was recorded in New York City and Jersey City, and released via Novus Records label. It was his last album in exile before the end of apartheid.
Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic noted: "The title of this New York City-recorded album suggests a combination of township jive and uptown Gotham soul and energy, but what we get is some of the former and little of the latter. Here, Masekela alternates South African-inflected pop/jazz with lugubrious covers of a couple of U.S. soul tunes ... and a Bob Marley anthem, 'No Woman, No Cry.'"