Uptownship
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Released1989
RecordedNovember 1988 – July 1989
StudioEvergreen Studios (New York City), Quantum Studios (Jersey City, NJ), Baby Monster Studios (NYC), RCA Studios (NYC)
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| 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 | 1:01:26 | |||
| Label | Novus Records 3070 | |||
| Producer | Hugh Masekela, John Cartwright, Morris Goldberg, Rick Rowe | |||
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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.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | [4] |
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.'"[2]
