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Louis Moholo
Louis Moholo
Born: Mar 10, 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa
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Styles: World Fusion, African Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Biography: Louis Moholo comes from a musical family and is a self-taught drummer. His band the Cordettes took part in the 1962 Johannesburg Jazz Festival, where Moholo won first prize for drums. After this, Chris McGregor asked him to join the Blue Notes, replacing the original drummer. After leaving South Africa ...Read full biography
Spirits Rejoice!
Spirits Rejoice!
Released: 1978
Label: Ogun
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In 1978, South African expatriate drummer Louis Moholo convened an octet including two countrymen and five Europeans and produced one of the great under-recognized recordings in modern jazz, arguably the ...Read full review
Tern
Tern
Released: 1982
Label: The Orchard
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Originally released in 1983 on the tiny SAJ label (a subsidiary label of the cult fave European free-improv label FMP) but reissued by Atavistic as part of their Unheard Music Series in 2003, Tern is a ...Read full review
More Louis Moholo albums: Main Albums (5)
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