{"id":96557,"date":"2025-06-14T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=96557"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:50:29","slug":"louis-moholo-1940-2025-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/louis-moholo-1940-2025-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Moholo (1940-2025) In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Louis<\/p>\n

Svirchev: Can you talk about why you started to play music?<\/p>\n

Louis Moholo-Moholo: This is something is embedded in me, I couldn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t go to school for music. I\u2019m 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\u2019t even let me get into the premises. But I taught myself and have no regrets at all.<\/p>\n

Being born in South Africa, I had all the equipment, all that I needed to be put in a straight line. I\u2019m happy now that I never took that knowledge university baseline, because I took the broadest line I could get.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Louis Moholo In Memoriam<\/h3>\n

Cita tomada de la entrevista a Louis Moholo en Misterioso, Apropos of Creative Music<\/a> realizada por Laurence Svirchev en 2005 y publicada en la web en 2011. Fotograf\u00eda de Joan Cort\u00e8s tomada en la actuaci\u00f3n de Louis Moholo – Canto General, el 20 de octubre de 2007 en el 19\u00e8me Festival Jazz\u00e8bre, en el Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Municipal de Perpignan (Francia).<\/p>\n

Cita: \u00a9 Laurence Svirchev (2005)\/ Misterioso, Apropos of Creative Music (publicado en 2011)
\nFotograf\u00eda: \u00a9\u00a0Joan Cort\u00e8s<\/a>, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre Al Foster<\/h3>\n

https:\/\/aloysiusfoster.com\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/?s=al+foster&submit=Search<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louis Moholo falleci\u00f3 el 13 de junio de 2025. En Tomajazz le rendimos un homenaje con una cita y una instant\u00e1nea de Joan Cort\u00e8s. Descanse en paz el baterista sudafricanoContin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31927,17853,24822,15517,1038],"tags":[32197],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","has-excerpt","post-96557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-in-memoriam","category-joan-cortes","category-articulos","category-textos","category-contenidos","tag-louis-moholo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250613-Ls-Mhl-Joan-Cortes-20ctb07-19Jzzbr07-Prpgn.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7800,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wolfgang-haffner-straight-to-the-point-interview-by-arturo-mora-rioja\/","url_meta":{"origin":96557,"position":0},"title":"Wolfgang Haffner: Straight to the point. 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