Jake Baxendale WAYPEOPLE (NZ) // Adam Halliwell (MEL)

"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.

6th July 2026 - Jake Baxendale WAYPEOPLE (NZ) // Adam Halliwell (MEL)

Jake Baxendale WAYPEOPLE

Jake Baxendale - woodwinds
Chelsea Prastiti - voice
Jia Ling "Jessie" - guzheng
Luke Sweeting - piano
Maximilian Alduca - double bass
Tim Geldens - drums

Wellington-based saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale brings together a remarkable collective of Aotearoa and Australia's leading jazz and contemporary musicians for Waypeople, a luminous new album inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s English-language version of the Tao Te Ching. Drawing from jazz, Chinese classical music and improvisation, the project fuses lyrical storytelling with meditative textures and powerful ensemble interplay.

Featuring Chelsea Prastiti (voice), Jia Ling “Jessie” (guzheng), Jake Baxendale (woodwinds), Luke Sweeting (piano), Maximillian Alduca (double bass) and Tim Geldens (drums), Waypeople transforms the timeless Taoist philosophy of harmony, balance, and paradox into sound. The result is a work of shimmering beauty — grounded in jazz but alive with the rhythm of ancient poetry and the pulse of contemporary life.

Adam Halliwell

Adam Halliwell -flute/guitarsynth/shruti/vocals
Flora Carbo - Saxophone/winds
Ollie Cox - Sample and Percussion

Italian folk songs inspired by a quasi-Italian upbringing. Experimental instrument techniques, out dated midi technology, pop sensibilities, plain song bardisms weaving between organic song forms and modal improvisation. 

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks