Friday 27 October @ Thomas Dixon Centre

Khito is a Post-modern jazz sextet based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Khito manoeuvre throughout the music of jazz using hip-hop influenced back beats, funk inspired bass lines as well as bebop and soul styled melodies through progressive and improv-based arrangements. Khito’s music is a melting pot of 6 friends music taste who have all centralised around jazz putting in their own flair from many genres. An Instrumentally uncommon band for Brisbane, it consists of Edan Falcon-Green on the Drums, Alex Askew on the Electric Bass, Teabo Fargo on Piano, Evan J. Evans on Vibraphone, Tyger Middleton on Tenor Saxaphone and Olivia Marlton on Alto Saxaphone, the unique orchestration brings uncommon textures to the music. 

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The Brisbane International Jazz Festival will take over the Thomas Dixon Centre on Friday 27 October with a massive line-up of artists across multiple stages. Featuring Brooklyn-based saxophonist Caroline Davis and her adventurous trio Alula, Western Australian collective Quiet Country featuring Harry Mitchell (piano), Ben Vanderwal (drums), Allira Wilson (vocals), Karl Florisson (bass) and Ben Witt (guitar) premiering their new album, Melbourne’s Loose Leaf trio led by Andrew Saragossi as well as some of Queensland’s finest artists – Hannah Macklin, Cigany Weaver, Chris Stover's Imaginary Hybridities (USA), Joshua Hatcher Quartet, Sharon Nobs Trio, Khito, Tyler Cooney Quintet, SHAMIN, and the Theo Parrott Organ Trio.

The event will also kick off with an open rehearsal of the commissioned works of Kayleigh Pincott and Brendan Foster – recipients of the inaugural Lynette Irwin MF Composition Commission.