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I've been playing music by and with Louis Moholo non stop since Friday evening ... glad I got to hear him in person a few times (w/Irene, w/Four Blokes, w/Tippettses & MinAfric Orchestra ...). Thanks so much for sharing your story and thoughts and insights @ep1str0phy 🖤

In 2007, I saw Louis Moholo perform in Japan with Japanese pianist Yoriyuki Harada and Henry Grimes, and it was an incredible performance. I also saw him perform with Tristan Honsinger. Grimes, Honsinger and now Moholo all have passed away now. RIP.

One for All “Incorrigible” Jazz Legacy Productions cd Bass – John Webber Drums – Joe Farnsworth Piano – David Hazeltine Tenor Saxophone – Eric Alexander Trombone – Steve Davis Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Jim Rotondi

I've been trying to process for a few days. As I have mentioned in the past, my wider family were South Africans who left or were forced to leave in the 1960s as part of the same wave as the Blue Notes, in the wake of Sharpesville and Rivonia.  For my parents' and grandparents' generations, the members of the Blue Notes were standard names. People whom they knew by sight and (in an either more or less limited way) socially. Even my father, never a jazz fan or a member of jazz-adjacent politically engaged circles (at least once he had come to England), could name them all.  I think Moholo was the last of the Blue Notes. In truth, I maybe never fell deeply in love with their music, and, as I say upthread, I was not aware that he was still alive. Nonetheless, it is very sad news, part of the passing of those generations that had so much heart and integrity. Of the surviving members of my family my aunt and a cousin-once-removed, both on my father's side, are perhaps the last who knew him (the more hardcore SACP / jazz fan family members who were closely involved in those circles pre-emigration are long since dead). I have long since stopped notifying them of deaths, as it is getting too personally painful for them.  Apologies for the egotistical post, but it is going to be a sad few years, as all the remaining legends pass. 

Going to be a hot one. Taking advantage of the cool of the early morning for some listening. First off Grateful Dead, Winterland, San Francisco, CA (3/20/77) disc 1   612×407 44.2 KB   From the “Enjoying the Ride” box set.   300×300 22.9 KB