Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival: Jenna Cave Sextet // Gabriella Hill, Eric Tsai, Jacques Emery & Daniel Raymond

"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.

27th October 2025 - Jenna Cave Sextet // Gabriella Hill, Eric Tsai, Jacques Emery & Daniel Raymond

Jenna Cave Sextet

Jenna Cave (composer & vocals)
Yutaro Okuda (guitar)
Tom Avgenicos (trumpet/flugelhorn)
Loretta Palmeiro (saxophones, clarinet)
Hannah James (double bass)
Alex Inman-Hislop (drums)

Commissioned and released by ABC Jazz, 'Grief, Hope, Love' is a suite of 6 songs composed by Jenna Cave in the twelve months after the suicide of her husband in 2022.

With themes of hope and resilience in the face of loss and despair, these songs became an outlet for Cave to articulate, process and express her raw emotional states during the early stages of grief, including her sheer gratitude for the love and joy that still existed alongside her pain. In this performance Cave will perform the works accompanied by a selection of Sydney’s finest musicians who were featured on the album. Honest and uncompromising, compassionate and tender, embracing both past and future, this is music that speaks from heart to heart.

https://jennacave.bandcamp.com/album/grief-hope-love

Gabriella Hill, Eric Tsai, Jacques Emery & Daniel Raymond

Gabriella Hill - saxophone
Eric Tsai - guitar
Jacques Emery - double bass
Daniel Raymond - drums

The Gabriella Hill Quartet is Eric Tsai, Jacques Emery, Daniel Raymond and Gabriella Hill.

Using Gabriella’s compositions as frames for improvisation, her distinctive sound as a composer and band leader steers the music into areas where songless improvisation merges with conventional composition.

Gabriella’s most recent compositions seem to be driven by greater harmonic detail with a nuanced focus on the density and dynamic range afforded by the instrumentation of a jazz quartet.

The use of seemingly repetitive harmonic and rhythmic cycles are contrasted with fluctuating and sporadic improvisation, which at times creates a sense of the music being perpetually undefined yet marked by moments of improvised and compositional clarity.

This will be their very first performance as a quartet.

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks