Waypeople

Wellington-based saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale brings together a remarkable collective of Aotearoa'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.