An Open Letter to my wife Mpumi


Artist: Louis Moholo

Label: Ogun

Price: $19.95

Year: 2009
Format: CD

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One of the legends of the South African and British jazz scenes, drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo came to London in the mid-1960s, and has been balancing emotional eloquence, township music's energy and an openness to the wildest of jazz/improv freedoms ever since. This flat-out 2008 set finds the drummer in a powerful septet including UK saxists Jason Yarde and Ntshuks Bonga, his regular pianist Pule Pheto and Francine Luce on vocals. The horns adopt that vocal-choir South African sound over Pheto's splashing runs and Moholo-Moholo's hurtling snare patterns. Hymnal songs are intoned with stately imperturbability over the stormy rhythmic seas beneath - and there are grippingly layered originals from Yarde, full of free-blowing tumults and baritone-sax snortings, while his Thank U 4 2 Day introduces a sinewy, pleading lyricism underpinned by Orphy Robinson's vibes. It's a ragged and jam-like studio set with a raucous live feel - and it confirms Moholo-Moholo's presence on the scene as a blast of fresh air.

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Louis Moholo-Moholo (drums, vocals); Jason Yarde (soprano, alto and baritone saxophones); Ntshuks Bonga (alto and tenor saxophones); Pule Pheto (piano); Orphy Robinson (Vibraphone); John Edwards (bass); Francine Luce (vocals)

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An Open Letter to my wife Mpumi