(Louis Moholo-Moholo)
In association with Concerts SA, iSupport Music Business
presents master drummer Louis Moholo and his band a Seaman’s Corner in
Hammarsdale.
“The great South African drummer’s fires still burn brightly
at 74. He’s making some of the great jazz of his time”—The Guardian.
Born in Cape Town, Moholo-Moholo formed The Blue Notes with Chris
McGregor, Johnny Dyani, Nikele Moyake, Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana, and
emigrated to Europe with them in 1964, eventually settling in London, where he
formed part of a South African exile community that made an important
contribution to British jazz.
Full of fireworks and passion, Moholo-Moholo’s cutting edge
approach also has great meditative power. He was a member of the Brotherhood of
Breath, a big band comprising several South African exiles and leading
musicians of the British free jazz scene in the 1970s and is the founder of
Viva la Black and The Dedication Orchestra. His first album under his own name,
Spirits Rejoice on Ogun Records, is
considered a classic example of the combination of British and South African
players. In the early 1970s, Moholo was also a member of the afro-rock band
Assagai.
Veteran South African drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo
returned to his homeland in 2005 and will revisit anthemic and freewheeling
improvisations that will be delivered during September (Heritage Month) by an
exceptional assemblage of young and old at sought-after performance venues in
South Africa and abroad. His line-up will consist of Andile Yenana on keys,
Mandla Mlangeni on trumpet, Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Sisonke Xonti saxophone and
Ariel Zamonsky on double bass.
Moholo-Moholo can be seen this evening (September 3) at
18h00 at Seaman’s Corner, C568 Dimba Road, Unit 3, Hammarsdale. Tickets R30 at
the door
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