Kgethi Nkotsi is South African Trombone player based in Tembisa, Johannesburg. He started playing the Trombone at the age of 16. Ever since then his first love has been for the Trombone because of the wah-wah sound it makes (a sound by the Trombone when one slurs the note.
He has never looked back. He first started playing the Trombone at the Moses Taiwa Molelekwa Arts Foundation under the guidance of Jerry Molelekwa, the father of the late Moses Molelekwa. A year after he started playing the Trombone he was awarded the opportunity to go to Makhanda for the Standard Bank Youth Jazz Festival where he would be part of several workshops. Consequently, he moved to Durban in 2016 to pursue his music career and study music at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. He has been exposed to a lot of musicians that he has looked up to, and has been fortunate to have played with them and jammed with them too. The likes of Salim Washington, Andlile Yenana, Khaya Mahlangu, Billy Harpe, Steffon Harris, Leon Scharnick and many more. He has shared a stage with the legendary Trombone player Steve Turre.
The Matti Klein Trio
"My soul is like an eternal firework without rest," wrote Goethe. "People get up and drive your funky soul," said James Brown. Somewhere in between these soul brothers oscillates the Matti Klein Soul Trio, the small ensemble with the big sound. "Highly contagious grooves" (Zitty) that "directly reach the heart and mind of the enthusiastic audience" (Mindener Tageblatt) characterize this rather new Berlin band.
With his various vintage keyboards and as MD for the Brazilian soul superstar Ed Motta or with his band Mo 'Blow, Klein earned his reputation as one of the most interesting young groove jazz musicians on the German scene, appearing in renowned clubs like Ronnie Scott's in London, the Blue Note in Tokyo, the Highline Ballroom in New York, as well as at international festivals such as Pori Jazz, Jazz in Marciac and the Leverkusener Jazztage. The man in the smart hat also shared stage and studio with stars like Nils Landgren, Jimmy Somerville, or David T. Walker.
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