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CASE STUDIES Hugh Masekela, Jazz Jamaica All Stars and Serious (South Africa / UK)
Hugh Masekela In 2004, Visiting Arts and the Performing Right Society Foundation enabled Serious to bring together a legend of South African protest music, Hugh Masekela, with UK musicians Jazz Jamaica All Stars for a new music collaboration. Jazz Jamaica All Stars, a collective of talents including Denys Baptiste, Andy Sheppard, Soweto Kinch, Juliet Roberts, Orphy Robinson, Guy Barker, Kevin Robinson, Ashley Slater, Annie Whitehead and Alex Wilson, worked with Hugh Masekela during several residency periods in the UK. The creative exchange involved skills sharing, the development of new arrangements and an integrated education project over six months. 130 students from 8 schools and community groups in 4 London Boroughs (Islington, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney) worked with Jazz Jamaica, Masekela and animateur, Richard Frostick, to learn and rehearse South African and Caribbean contemporary vocal music. The young people formed a choir that performed alongside Jazz Jamaica and Hugh Masekela at the Barbican as part of the City of London Festival marking South Africa’s 10th anniversary of democracy. The participants in the project were all empowered by the cross-generational approach which gave young people access to world-class musical role models and professional musicians an opportunity to fulfil their ambitions of working with the musicians of the future. An additional concert at the Barbican for the families and friends of the young people involved had a significant impact on audience development for the centre with all the concerts playing to full capacity. To extend the impact of the collaboration, Serious organised a professional development seminar at the University of the Arts in London for established and emerging musicians and programmed a UK tour for the musicians with a further appearance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Holland.
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