Khumbula (Remember) is an album by drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and pianist Stan Tracey.
[1][2][3] Prior to the recording session, Moholo-Moholo and Tracey had not played together for thirty years, and had never performed as a duo.
"[5] John Eyles of All About Jazz stated that the musicians "sound as if they have been improvising together all their lives, so fluent is the music," and noted that Moholo-Moholo "retains his ability to turn on a sixpence when required, instantly responding to Tracey, and creating the impression of telepathy.
"[6] Writing for The Guardian, John Fordham described the recording as "completely in-the-moment music-making," and remarked: "Tracey sounds at times like a man trying out a punchline on a fellow-conversationalist who barrels on without hearing it... Moholo, by contrast, sustains a hissing, simmering kind of rhythmic trance rather than a groove, depriving Tracey of his usual narrative shapes.
But the pianist responds to the challenge with typically economical ingenuity.