He was hearing the songs he and the Jazz Epistles would cover in South Africa played by their original composers. Indeed, from his very first night in New York, when Dizzy Gillespie took him under his wing, Masekela was meeting and seeing the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach and John Coltrane.

'The astonishing thing about my uncle is the breadth of the relationships he had,' says Mabusha. But New York offered more - not least of all, the chance to learn from and interact with his boyhood music heroes. Shortly after the Sharpeville Massacre, he'd left South Africa and headed to London. 'Hughie,' as he was affectionately called in the US, came to New York in 1960, encouraged by Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte.

When he arrived in New York, Masekela had brought with him the famed trumpet that he'd received from Louis Armstrong, via Father Trevor Huddleston, as detailed in his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Hugh Masekela performs live on Augin New York City.

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