Alex Hitchcock Trio (UK/AUS) // Steve Barry Quartet

"Monday Night Confessions" is a weekly show presenting original jazz/improvised music. Run out of Church Street Studios in Camperdown, Sydney, we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

20th October 2025 - Alex Hitchcock Trio (UK/AUS) // Steve Barry Quartet

Alex Hitchcock Trio

Alex Hitchcock - saxophone
Cam Undy - bass
Alex Young - drums

Alex Hitchcock is a London-born saxophonist, composer, arranger, and producer based in New York. He draws inspiration politically as much as musically from artists in the radical tradition of Black American music, including Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Hazel Scott, Ma Rainey, and Max Roach.

Since emerging as a leader, Hitchcock has released four solo albums to widespread critical acclaim. The Guardian described him as a “virtuoso” saxophonist, while BBC Jazz World hailed him as “leading the charge in terms of new jazz music being created in the UK.” His work has been featured on the BBC, France Musique, WDR, JazzFM, Worldwide FM, and in leading publications such as Downbeat, MOJO, Jazzwise, Musica Jazz, Stereogum, and Uncut.

Steve Barry Quartet

Steve Barry – piano
Tom Avgenicos – trumpet
Cam Undy – bass
Alex Young - drums

Barry’s quartet music seeks to explore the terrain between the concrete and the abstract, complexity and lyricism, the old and the new, while drawing on muses from urban systems to the satire and magical realism of Vonnegut, Calvino, and Allende. Unfurling forms and shifting rhythmic sands are grounded in familiar melodicism, and punctuated by the ensemble's distinct improvisatory voices and buoyant interactive agility.

Dr Steve Barry is the Program Leader for Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Hailed by Loudmouth Magazine as “one of Australia’s most inventive and accomplished composer/improvisers”, his 2023 album In the Waves with jazz luminaries Eric Harland and Will Vinson was awarded 4.5 stars in the Weekend Australian, and praised by the Sydney Morning Herald as “...the finest instalment to date of the pianist’s bristling musical intelligence, rhythmic mutability, melodic flair and compositional gifts.”

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks