Pops Mohamed Mixed Old And New To Reinvent South African Music. Ismail Mohamed-Jan – better known by South African jazz fans ...

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was variously and ...

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The Center for Advanced Study and the University of Illinois Press hosted panelists Darius and Catherine Brubeck, who pioneered the first jazz education program in apartheid South Africa. The Brubecks ...

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Analysis - Ismail Mohamed-Jan - better known by South African jazz fans as Pops Mohamed - has passed away at the age of 75.