• Timeline

  • 1960’s
  • 1970’s
  • 1980’s
  • 1990’s
  • 2000’s
  • The Early Years

• Latest Updates

  09/01/09 - Cape Town pianist Kyle Shepherd writes about his work with Louis 2009,

  03/01/09 - Happy New Year - Lots of photos courtesy of Riccardo Bergerone - see '71, '80, '04, & '06, (more to come) New articles by Danny Halperin ’67, : Essex Uni Mag, '68,: Closing of 'Ronnie's Old Place''68,: Val Wilmer '70,

  31/12/08 - Five photos from Newcastle, thanks Rik Walton - '88, '89,

  30/12/08 - Interview with Louis by Gary May, originally appeared in the French Magazine 'ImproJazz' - May 2005,

  30/12/08 - A poster for a Louis Moholo-Moholo concert in Rome - 2007,

  17/12/08 - Two great photos of Louis from Italian photographer Enzo Saba - 2007,

  16/12/08 - The closest to an autobography of Chris McGregor - from an application for a Cultural Grant -’66, ,

  15/12/08 - A review of the Blue Notes by Dave Kennard -1966

  15/12/08 - Interview in Drum with the Blue Notes on Durban beach - '64,

  14/12/08 - Eight musical excerpts from 'Freedom of the City 2001', thank you Martin. 2001,

  11/12/08 - Five articles/reviews by Canadian journalist Bill Smith from Coda Magazine, including a fantastic interview with Chris McGregor from 1966, see also '70, , '73, '77, & '80,.

  11/12/08 - My first (I hope of many) sound samples of a CD - thanks ReelRecordings.

  11/12/08 - 1964 Article written by the journalist Howard Lawrence for "The New African" '64,

  10/12/08 - '85, '86, have been updated with new photographs courtesy of Denis Dalby.

  10/12/08 - A bibliography started - any additions welcome.

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An Introduction to the Site

This site is to celebrate the lives of five wonderful musicians who exiled themselves from South Africa in the 1960s.

In alphabetical order those men were, Johnny Dyani - bass; Mongezi Feza- trumpet, Chris McGregor - piano; Louis Moholo - drums and Dudu Pukwana - sax. 
There were others who left South Africa around that time. Some are mentioned regularly in the following pages, some have great web sites already devoted to them, like Abdullah Ibrahim. Others, such as Harry Miller will have special pages on this site devoted to them.

There was one more ‘Blue Note’ who came over to Europe with them, Nick Moyake, sadly he soon returned to South Africa, and died prematurely of a brain tumour.

The site is still very much in development and may take many years to mature fully. I have used record sleeves, newspaper reviews and articles, and am slowly attempting to find the authors and designers etc. to get permission to use their work. Should you own the rights to any item used, please contact me and I trust we can come to an amicable arrangement. This is a completely non profit making site, with no revenues received or expected.

There will of course be errors and omissions. Should you spot any and should you have any extra information, photos, club/festival venue flyers etc. please let me know. All additions will be acknowledged.

Many thanks, Mike Fowler

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