Louis Moholo

Louis Tebugo Moholo ( born March 10, 1940 in Cape Town, and Louis Moholo - Moholo ) is a South African jazz drummer.

Life

Moholo first played in the late 1950s with Early Mabuza, the Chordettes, and then until 1963 when Ronnie Beers The Swinging City Six. As a member, founded by pianist Chris McGregor The Blue Notes, he emigrated with this band at the Jazz Festival in Antibes in 1964 to Europe. After a stay in Zurich, the musicians in London settled. Together with Johnny Dyani, Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana and Chris McGregor he inspired the British jazz scene. He was a member of McGregor's influential free jazz big band Brotherhood of Breath and the group Spear of Dudu Pukwana.

Moholo was 1971 again briefly to South Africa and found there the first edition of his Spirits Rejoice together. Later he founded the group Viva -La -Black and later The Dedication Orchestra, which further maintained the traditions of the Brotherhood of Breath. His first album under his own name was Spirits Rejoice ( Ogun Records, 1978), which is a classic example of a successful collaboration between British and South African jazz soloists and in addition to compositions by him and other band members also Todd Matshikizas Wedding Hymn ( from the musical King Kong ) and Fezas You Is not Gonna know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me contains. In the early 1970s he was also a member of the Afro - rock band assegai.

Moholo has played with many musicians from the area of ​​the free jazz and improvised music, first with Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd, then for many years in the trio of Mike Osborne and with Irène Schweizer and Rüdiger Carl, then with Peter Brötzmann and Harry Miller. Again and again he played next with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Keith Tippett, Elton Dean, but also with Misha Mengelberg, Tristan Honsinger, Curtis Clarke, Sean Bergin and John Tchicai and at the Church in Frankfurt am Main with the Merseburg cathedral organist Hans- Günther Wauer. The captured on CD collaboration with Cecil Taylor has not consolidated.

In recent years, he often appears under the name Louis Moholo - Moholo on ( Sesotho Moholo = great, old; Moholo - Moholo = very large, very old). In September 2005 Moholo returned from exile back to South Africa and lives in Cape Town, where he has built now has its own big band ( Hear our Heart's Vibrations ).