Reza Khota Quartet live at Lucky Bean restaurant
The Reza Khota Quartet will perform live on Sunday, 27 April, at Lucky Bean restaurant in Melville featuring Buddy Wells, last year's Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year for Jazz, Shane Cooper and drummer Jonno Sweetman.
Based in Cape Town, Reza has been part of groups at the forefront of the new jazz sound in South Africa including Babu, the Shane Cooper Quintet and Kesivan and the Lights and his own quartet. He has also collaborated with pianist Jill Richards in contemporary avant-garde ensembles playing music by Francois Sarhan for works by celebrated South African artist William Kentridge, and more recently with world-renowned sound artist Francisco Lopez.
Debut album launch
Reza recently undertook an artist residency in Switzerland collaborating with the Swiss guitarist and composer Beat Keller. The guitar duo recorded a work by Christian Wolff entitled 'Microexercises' which is released on the Wandelweiser label. They also toured Norway and Switzerland performing this music as part of the Edge of Wrong Festival.
Reza is now launching Transmutation - his debut CD as a bandleader of the Reza Khota Quartet. Consisting of eight instrumental pieces, four of which are his own, one by bassist Shane Cooper as well interpretations of music by John Mclaughlin, Jimi Hendrix and Bela Bartok. The album was self-produced and is being released independently.
For more info, go to www.rezakhota.com.
Event details:
Date: Sunday, 27 April at 7pm. Booking is essential.
Price: R100 for the performance. (Meals will be billed separately and the performance is not an option without a meal.)
Venue: Lucky Bean, 16, 7th Street, Melville
Contact: +27(0)114825572 or info@luckybeanrestaurant.co.za
