Sono disponibili tramite WeGotTickets i biglietti per lo specialissimo concerto che si terrà a Londra al 100 Club il prossimo 27 agosto quale omaggio di colleghi e amici al compianto Louis Moholo-Moholo (1940-2025). Per ora si sa che interverranno Claude Deppa, Steve Beresford, Larry Stabbins, Evan Parker, John Edwards, Alexander Hawkins, Jason Yarde, Francine Luce e Shabaka Hutchings, ma la lista è quasi certamente destinata ad allungarsi. Informazioni presso Ogun e FB.
Louis Moholo-Moholo, a legendary South African drummer, passed away June 13 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was 85. Born Louis Tebogo Moholo on March 10, 1940, Moholo-Moholo formed The Blue Notes with Johnny Dyani, Mongezi Feza, Chris McGregor, Nikele Moyake and Dudu Pukwana, a group that championed free-jazz with an African sensibility during the 1960s and ’70s. The group fled the oppression of South Africa in 1964, eventually settling in the United Kingdom and becoming key members of the British jazz scene of the ’60s. “Louis was more than just South Africa’s greatest living jazz drummer - he was a revolutionary rhythm-maker, a sonic freedom fighter and a keeper of ancestral memory,” said fellow South African drummer Kesivan Naidoo. “He carved sound from silence and turned drums into language, prayer, protest and poetry. Every beat he struck carried the thunder of exile, the ache of home and the joy of resistance. He did not simply play music - he channeled it.”
A family statement noted, “Louis was more than a pioneering musician - he was a mentor and a friend. As a drummer, composer and fearless voice for artistic freedom, Louis inspired generations through his groundbreaking contributions to South African and global jazz. From the townships of Cape Town to the stages of London and beyond, his rhythms spoke of resistance, liberation and the boundless power of creativity.”