Ernest Mothle

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Ernest Mogotsi Mothle (born December 2, 1941 in Lady Selborne , Pretoria ; † May 2, 2011 ) was a South African jazz musician ( double bass , electric bass , vocals ) and composer .

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Mothle attended St. Peter's College in the Johannesburg district of Rosettenville and played there like Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa in the Father Huddlestone Band . With Francis and Cornelius Kekana and Gabriel Tladi, he founded the vocal group Dominoes in 1959 , in which he played bass. He was then a musician on the African Jazz and Variety Show . In 1969 Henry Sithole brought him into his Heshoo Beshoo Group , with which he also recorded the LP Armitage Road . He also played in Gibson Kene's musical Manana - The Jazz Prophet and was involved in subsequent productions Lifa and Sikhalo Plays .

In 1972 he went to Europe, where he played in Julian Bahula's band Jabula from 1974 , but also recorded with Mike Oldfield ( Ommadawn ). He also played with Jim Dvorak in the group Joy (album of the same name in 1978 for Cadillac). From the late 1970s he belonged to the bands of Dudu Pukwana . In the early 1980s he was a member of the Trevor Watts Drum Orchestra and Moire Music . From 1981 he was a member of Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and performed with her at the Moers Festival (1981, 1988) and the Willisau Jazz Festival (1988). From 1986 he made regular guest appearances in Germany with the Jazz against Apartheid project led by Makaya Ntshoko and John Tchicai . In 1989 he toured Europe with Winston Mankunku . He has also contributed to several Working Week recordings , Robert Wyatt's Nothing Can Stop Us, and Talk Talks Laughing Stock .

In 1995 he returned to South Africa, where he taught as a music lecturer at Tshwane University of Technology. With his own group he is also documented on the DVD Acoustic Africa (2004). In 2007 he played with his quartet at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival . He died in early May 2011 of complications from diabetes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ Hugh Masekela biography
  3. ^ Yvonne Huskisson, Sarita Hauptfleisch: Black composers of Southern Africa 1992, p. 8
  4. ↑ Heshoo beshoo Group
  5. ^ C. Walton Unsung: South African Jazz Musicians under Apartheid 2007, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Mothle, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mothle, Ernest Mogotsi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lady Selbourne , Pretoria
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2011