ICYMI: Jazz drummer with the Blues Notes who brought enthralling new sounds from South Africa to the wider world in the 1960s
The inspirational jazz drummer and bandleader Louis Moholo-Moholo, who has died aged 85, made music with fellow South African exiles that brought enthralling new sounds to the world beyond their troubled homeland in the 1960s.
Over six decades in music, he performed with some of the most creative musicians in the jazz of his time. He was as compelling to watch as to hear – cracking out explosive accents with a force that could lift him off his stool, or stroking delicate cymbal patterns like wind rustling in trees. Continue reading…
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