Jazz Articles about Louis Moholo-Moholo

R.I.P. Louis Moholo-Moholo

by Jerome Wilson
August 13, 2025

This program includes the work of the late drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo, the last surviving member of the South African group, the Blue Notes and a great contributor to the British jazz scene. The show also features music by Joe Lovano, John Yao, and Claire Ritter. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Claire Ritter “Soul of the Grass" from Songs ...

Louis Moholo Moholo, Sven Åke Johansson, Olie Brice & Ville Lahteenmaki Trio

by Maurice Hogue
July 14, 2025

The final tunes of this episode of One Man's Jazz are memorials to two of the most important drummers in creative music who passed away within days of each other in June, and they're honoured in this episode. Louis Moholo Moholo and Sven Åke Johansson came from very different places; Moholo Moholo was the last living member of The Blue Notes, the group of musicians who fled South African apartheid to become major players and influences on the English, then ...

Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads (Live in Milan 1979)

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 12, 2022

Registrato (su cassetta) il 25 febbraio 1979 al Teatro Cristallo di Milano, il nastro di questo concerto ha dovuto attendere la bellezza di quarantatré anni, ma alla fine, grazie alla caparbietà e alla dedizione alla causa di Riccardo Bergerone, che dell'odierno CD (in impeccabile digipack a sei facciate) condivide la responsabilità delle note di copertina con Roberto Ottaviano, è oggi disponibile per i nostri lettori e le nostre orecchie. Ed è un'autentica festa, perché, al di là ...

Karl Evangelista: Apura!

by John Sharpe
August 7, 2020

One sure-fire way for up-and-coming musicians to get attention is to convene an all star combo. Though Bay Area-based Filipino-American guitarist (and sometime AAJ scribe) Karl Evangelista follows that route on his fourth album Apura! he makes surprising but astute choices of bandmates by enlisting the services of legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and the British pair of veteran saxophonist Trevor Watts and rising star pianist Alexander Hawkins. As Evangelista explains in the liner notes, the music of early ...

“Bass-ic" Strokes for Discerning Folks

by Maurice Hogue
October 2, 2019

The double bass is rather well-represented in this show. New recordings featuring some great bassists as leaders come from Miles Perkin, Benjamin Hedquist, and Andrew Schiller, while other recordings feature Mario Pavone, Ville Rauhala with Hot Heros, Brett Hirst with Phil Slater, Brad Jones with Tenor Triage, Matt Brewer with Steve Lehman, Giovanni Maier with Cene Resnik, and the formidable John Stevens on Louis Moholo-Moholo's Four Blokes. Playlist Tenor Triage “The Fifth" from Tenor Triage (Ropeadope) 00:00 ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo's Five Blokes: Uplift The People

by John Sharpe
August 21, 2018

At last an album which captures some of the intense excitement, wayward adventure and sheer joy of a group which has wowed audiences at festivals and clubs across Europe and North America. Uplift The People by South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo's prosaically-named Five Blokes was recorded live at London's Cafe Oto in April 2017 and represents an upgrade on Four Blokes (Ogun, 2014) in every sense. The blokes in question include long time collaborators Jason Yarde on saxophones, John Edwards ...

Alexander Hawkins - Louis Moholo-Moholo alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
December 23, 2014

Musicus Concentus Superjazz Firenze, Sala Vanni 21.11.2014

Per il quarto e ultimo appuntamento di Superjazz, di scena a Firenze due musicisti ben distanti tra loro per generazioni, ma assai prossimi per taluni aspetti della loro sensibilità musicale: il giovane pianista britannico Alexander Hawkins e il settantaquattrenne batterista sudafricano Louis Moholo-Moholo.

Hawkins è una delle più apprezzate promesse del momento, oltre che come pianista anche come bandleader; Moholo invece faceva parte di quel manipolo ...