Colonial Man | ||||
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Studio album by Hugh Masekela | ||||
Released | 30 January 1976 | |||
Recorded | c. 1975–76 in New York and Chicago | |||
Studio | Capricorn Studios (New York), Good Vibrations Studios (New York), The Hit Factory (New York), Regent Sound (New York), Curtom Studios (Chicago). | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Casablanca NBLP-7023 | |||
Producer | Hugh Masekela | |||
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |
Colonial Man is the eighteenth studio album by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. It was recorded in New York and Chicago and released on 30 January 1976 via Casablanca Records label. His songs "Vasco Da Gama" and "Cecil Rhodes" are dedicated to African anti-colonialism. Compositions "Colonial Man" and "A Song for Brazil" were re-released on CD in 1998 on Verve Records as part of The Boy's Doin' It.