The Reza Khota Quartet live at Kwa Sec is the next attraction at the Jazz in the Native Yards live gig on Sunday 25 October 2020 at Kwa Sec Ny 138 no. 52 Gugulethu at 4pm.
The quartet features Khota on guitar, saxophonist Buddy Wells, Nicholas Williams on bass and drummer Jonno Sweetman.
The Reza Khota Quartet will play original compositions by Khota. Over the last twenty years, Khota has established himself as a guitarist with far reaching abilities. In this time, he has played regularly and recorded with the Shane Cooper Quintet and Kesivan and the Lights. The latter ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall, New York in 2014.
Khota is part of the new wave of South African jazz that seeks to think anew, what is possible as a composer and improviser in the post-apartheid. The Reza Khota Quartet released its second album – Liminal, in 2019. Khota was an artist in residence at the University of Western Cape’s Centre for Humanities Research from 2015-2018.
Numerous collaborations
Over the last three years he has collaborated with musicians from Toronto, India and Sweden. He also features on recordings with Mandla Mlangeni’s TRC, Abraham Mennen, and the Insurrections Ensemble. He recently performed with the Insurrections Ensemble in India at festivals in Goa and Kochi.
The gig is supported by Concerts SA in collaboration with The Gugulethu-Seaboard CAN Partnership, one of Cape Town’s first inter-neighbourhood responses to the pandemic. Five percent of ticket sales will be donated to The Gugulethu-Seaboard CAN which has supported 2000 highly vulnerable households in Gugulethu through food vouchers, community kitchens, gardens, and the delivery of water, soap and protective gear.
What: Reza Khota Quartet live at Kwa Sec
Where and when: Kwa Sec, Ny 138 no. 52 Gugulethu at 4pm on Sunday 25 October 2020
Tickets: 060 960 8935
The Reza Khota Quartet will also gig a livestreaming performance at the Penny Lane Studios on 15 November 2020. Click here to book online
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