Svirchev: Can you talk about why you started to play music?
Louis Moholo-Moholo: This is something is embedded in me, I couldn’t say why or tell you how, but my ears are too big. There was a British contingency in the Simonstown army base. There was a radio station for the army guys. My father used to play this British radio station. You could hear Ted Heath, Big Sid Catlett, Charlie Parker. I liked what I heard and later I found out that it was jazz. I loved it and still love it today.
Unfortunately, I didn’t go to school for music. I’m self-taught. I tried to go to music school but was chased away from the University of Capetown during the apartheid years. I tried to apply there and the guy wouldn’t even let me get into the premises. But I taught myself and have no regrets at all.
Being born in South Africa, I had all the equipment, all that I needed to be put in a straight line. I’m happy now that I never took that knowledge university baseline, because I took the broadest line I could get.
Louis Moholo In Memoriam
Cita tomada de la entrevista a Louis Moholo en Misterioso, Apropos of Creative Music realizada por Laurence Svirchev en 2005 y publicada en la web en 2011. Fotografía de Joan Cortès tomada en la actuación de Louis Moholo – Canto General, el 20 de octubre de 2007 en el 19ème Festival Jazzèbre, en el Théâtre Municipal de Perpignan (Francia).
Cita: © Laurence Svirchev (2005)/ Misterioso, Apropos of Creative Music (publicado en 2011)
Fotografía: © Joan Cortès, 2025
Más información sobre Al Foster
https://aloysiusfoster.com/
https://tomajazz.com/web/?s=al+foster&submit=Search
Descubre más desde Tomajazz
Suscríbete y recibe las últimas entradas en tu correo electrónico.