Louis Moholo is a South African jazz drummer who began his career in Cape Town in the late 1950s and became active in the 1960s with ensembles that fused township jazz with modern and free-jazz idioms, later continuing his career after relocating to Europe. His drumming combines driving polyrhythms, a strong sense of swing and free-improvisational techniques rooted in South African musical traditions, and over decades he transitioned from township-based styles into the European free-jazz and improvisation scenes, playing a role in cross-cultural jazz exchanges.
