Jazz Articles about Louis Moholo-Moholo

Louis Moholo-Moholo / Dudu Pukwana / Johnny Dyani / Frank Wright: Spiritual Knowledge And Grace

by Sid Smith
May 31, 2011

Accidents are part and parcel of any kind of improvised music. Such occurrences can be fickle things with a capacity to make or break a situation. So, when Chris McGregor was prevented from joining the first night of a Dutch tour by The Blue Notes in 1979, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Dudu Pukwana and Johnny Dyani embraced the accidental non-appearance of their pianist colleague and took to the stage. Another accident, though admittedly much happier one, was the presence ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo Quintet: London, UK, March 17, 2011

by John Sharpe
May 5, 2011

Louis Moholo-Moholo QuintetThe VortexLondon, UKMarch 17, 2011 As George the besuited MC said in his introduction, when you saw the lineup you knew this was not one to miss. And the packed audience at north London's Vortex was testament to the fact that his view was widely shared. Even though South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo remains a frequent visitor to London since relocating to his homeland on a permanent basis, his visits are still something ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo Duets With Marilyn Crispell: Sibanya (We Are One)

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
December 1, 2008

Only once in a great while does a recording come along that influences my thoughts on creativity, sound and spirituality in music. Sibanye (We Are One), duets with Louis Moholo-Moholo and Marilyn Crispell, is one of those recordings. Confronted with the racist oppression of apartheid in South Africa, Moholo-Moholo immigrated to Europe in 1964 and became a significant influence on the direction of jazz and creative music in Great Britain and throughout Europe. Now at the age of ...

Louis Moholo: with the Chris McGregor Trio and Marilyn Crispell

by Clifford Allen
November 28, 2008

When the Blue Notes--pianist Chris McGregor, drummer Louis Moholo, bassist Johnny Dyani, trumpeter Mongezi Feza and altoist Dudu Pukwana--brought their mixture of bebop and kwela from South Africa to England in 1967, it didn't take long for the quintet to join forces with some of the more adventurous players in London, a mutually beneficial climate that allowed them to take in freedoms which echoed their wayfaring experiences. The Blue Notes were more collective than their billing as a “Chris McGregor ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo: Duets With Marilyn Crispell

by Nic Jones
November 9, 2008

Here's one meeting of refined minds that doesn't result in complacency. Drummer Moholo-Moholo, (known formerly by just the single surname) and pianist Marilyn Crispell have put in countless hours fashioning music from out of nothing other than the moment. They bring that wealth of experience to bear here in music which is by turns joyously unpredictable and provoked into being by the imperative of that moment.

The opening “Improvise, Don't Compromise" reads like a manifesto commitment, albeit one far less ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo

by Marc Medwin
June 13, 2007

"It's all about freedom man," says drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and the softness in his voice belies and underpins the experience behind his words. “It becomes really important, the most important thing in the world, especially after all I've been through."The telephone connection to South Africa is not great, from where Moholo-Moholo speaks, where he was born and has again made his home since 2005. It has indeed been a long journey, Moholo-Moholo having left his homeland in 1964 ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo/Stan Tracey: Khumbula (Remember)

by John Eyles
June 13, 2005

There was a ripple of surprise last year when Stan Tracey and Evan Parker's Suspensions and Anticipations was released, on Parker's own Psi label. These eleven free improvisations presented a rarely-seen side of Stan Tracey. True, he had recorded free improvisations with his quartet as early as 1964, but the meeting with Parker took him deeper into improv territory than ever before. In the event, the album was best summed by Parker's own closing comment on the recording, “Amazing!