Uptownship

Uptownship is a 1989 studio album by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. 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.

Reception

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.'"