Monday, August 4, 2014

A HUGH MASEKELA TRIBUTE AND MORE (part two )

I admit I am very partial to the trumpet sound whether it is jazz, soul, r & b, or symphony..
Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillesppie, Miles Davis, Donald Byrd and Hugh Masekela..
Hugh is special to me - His South African roots ... That mixture giving soul to the instrument..
So I am taking the summer off from politics and Just -- Want 2 -- Share...





HUGH MASEKELA TRIBUTE POEM

JUST A TASTE --- However the track that gives me soul chills is Hugh's ( B0 Masekela track )
---- My apologies I could find this track on Youtube ---- Check Amazon
and hold tight to your bones the trumpet soul is awesome....


~ HUGH TRIBUTE ~
( TO HUGH MASEKELA – THANK YOU FOR THE SOUL OF YOUR TRUMPET NOTES )
( POEM WRITTEN WHILE LISTENING TO MASEKELA’S TRACK – BO MASEKELA )

SOUL OF  SOUL
THE FLUGEL HORNEST – A TRUMPET NOTE PROPHET
~ GIVING AND BLENDING ~
HIS RIVER SOUL NOTES
FLOWING OVER OUR ACHES AND PAINS
THE HERALDS OF SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE  ~ EMBERS AND FLAMES
NELSON MANDELA AND  STEPHEN BIKO
~ RISE ~
LIFE JEWELS ~ FREEDOM STILL CRY’S
ZULU, amaXHOSA, BHANTU
AFRICAN SUNRISES HARVESTING SUN BAKED SOUL BLOSSUMS

~ HUGH !!!~
~ STRUGGLE IS A GROOVE THANG ~
~ THE TOWNSHIPS AND THE SHANTY TOWNS OF SOUTH AFRICA ~
WHERE URBAN RENEWAL UNDER APARTHAID
WAS THE DUST BLOWN BY BREEZES OF SACRIFICE
~ONCE ~ TWICE ~ THRICE
THE TRINITY OF HUGH’S TRUMPET NOTES
RELEASING US FROM OUR PRISONS OF DESPAIR
~THEY STARE ~ WE DARE ~
TO LET OUR SOULS AND OUR ANCESTORS BONES
~ DANCE FREEDOM THIS NIGHT ~
RIVER, SEA, OCEAN, SKY ~ BIRTH IS WHEN I DIED
THIS VIBRATING GROOVE OF LIBERATION
 BLEEDING ITS DYNAMIC UNIVERSAL PRAYER
INTO THE RESURRECTION OF TRUE BREATHING
FISH AND BREAD ~ ANOTHER  MULTITUDE  FEED
MY MOMMA AND DADDY’S NIGHTS OF PRAYER
~THEIR GETHSEMANE’S TEARS POURED INTO ROCKS OF LIFE’S UNFAIRNESS~
GRANDMOMMA AND GRANDDADDY FORETOLD
‘ IF YOU ARE NOT BOLD IF ENOUGH TO BLEED COURAGE ’’
~ THEN HUSH CHILD ~
~ TOO MANY TOMBSTONES WEEP  FREEDOM SORROWS ~ 
~ SELMA AND BIRMINGHAM AND MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA ~
~ SOWETO, KINGSTOWN AND JOHANESBURG ~
~ AUSCHWITZ AND DACHAU ~
~ THE TRAIL OF TEARS AND WOUNDED KNEE ~
~ SOUL DEDICATED PLEAS ~
~ SACRIFICE  ILLUMINATING IN THE SKY EVERYNIGHT ~
AS A STAR LIT TRUMPET NOTE

HUGH MASEKELA ~ YOU BLACK ARCH-ANGEL TRUMPET SOUL KING ~
I~ LOVE ~ U ~

BY THOMAS N. CORBETT 3RD

TNC3

August 4, 2014