"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 // JAG

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

JAG

Gabriella Hill - saxophone
Jacques Emery - double bass
Alex Tucker - drums

JAG is Gabriella Hill, Jacques Emery and Alex Tucker. They improvise and play compositions.

The music explores a range of sonic possibilities including textural densities, tension at different volumes and timbral combinations. Written components function as interchangeable pieces which can be rearranged to create frameworks in which improvisation is informed.

https://gabriellahill.bandcamp.com/album/jag-live-at-rockdale

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks