Wellington Jazz musician Jake Baxendale Photo: © Anthony Toci
Off the back of his band The Jac taking out the 2021 Tūī for Best Jazz Artist, Wellington-based alto saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale is about to reveal a new suite of compositions based on the idea of 'Fantasia' - a style of musical composition that includes elements of free-form.
Wellington's Lōemis festival has commissioned the Fantasia works, which will be performed by a 10-piece brass-heavy ensemble.
Jake's studied jazz in Berlin and New York City since graduating from the New Zealand School of Music in 2011, but as he told Lynn Freeman he can trace his love of music to his childhood in Golden Bay.
Jake Baxendale is premiering Fantasia on the 18th of June at the Dom Polski Club, Newtown as part of the Lōemis festival in Te Whanganui a Tara.
