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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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John Fordham

Louis Moholo-Moholo obituary

Louis Moholo-Moholo on stage at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) arts centre in Berlin in 2017.
Louis Moholo-Moholo on stage at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) arts centre in Berlin in 2017. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images

The inspirational jazz drummer and bandleader Louis Moholo-Moholo, who has died aged 85, made music with fellow South African exiles that brought enthralling new sounds to the world beyond their troubled homeland in the 1960s.

Over six decades in music, he performed with some of the most creative musicians in the jazz of his time. He was as compelling to watch as to hear – cracking out explosive accents with a force that could lift him off his stool, or stroking delicate cymbal patterns like wind rustling in trees.

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