Jazz Articles about Louis Moholo-Moholo

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Mike Osborne Trio: The Willisau Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 1, 2009

Avrete sicuramente sentito parlare del Jazz Festival di Willisau, straordinaria quanto entusiasmante rassegna elvetica curata sin dalla sua nascita dal deus ex-machina Niklaus Troxler (architetto e grafico di illuminata intelligenza). Negli anni Settanta, praticamente ogni concerto o ogni iniziativa collegate a questo festival erano immediatamente riconosciute quali veri e propri eventi. Di recente, la Ogun britannica, ha ristampato su CD (aggiungendovi due bonus track tratte da un altro set, originariamente non presenti sul vinile), la registrazione del concerto tenuto il ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Mike Osborne Trio: All Night Long

by Sid Smith
April 20, 2008

First issued in 1976 and now making its CD debut with a sumptuous 26 extra minutes, what hits you from the opening moments of this live album is the full-blooded passion and commitment to every single note.

That isn't too much of a surprise, given that Mike Osborne was undoubtedly one of the most formidable sax players to emerge from the fertile grounds of British jazz in the late 1950s and 1960s.

A glance at many of the key groupings ...

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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 ...

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Louis Moholo: Bra Louis - Bra Tebs / Spirits Rejoice!

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2006

Il jazz di Louis Moholo negli anni sessanta e settanta era una sintesi tra la libertà espressiva del free storico e le radici profonde della musica africana. E tale è rimasto negli anni successivi, come testimonia il disco in esame, che ricorda il suo sessantacinquesimo compleanno. Questo meraviglioso doppio CD celebra il passato ripubblicando Spirits Rejoice!, l'album più noto (e forse più bello) della sua discografia, e riafferma il valore della sua musica con Bra Louis - Bra Tebs, un ...