WJF Andrew Faleatua Trio presented by WJC

Name: WJF Andrew Faleatua Trio presented by WJC
Start: 2025-10-16T08:30:00+13:00
End: 2025-10-16T09:30:00+13:00
Location: Cuba Barbers

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 08:30 am to 09:30 am

UTC+13:00

Location

Cuba Barbers | Wellington, WG

The Wellington Jazz Cooperative opens its Wellington Jazz Festival Popup club with the Andrew Faleatua Trio. Featuring: Andrew Faleatua (piano, fahūfagu), Seth Boy (double bass), and Isitolo Alesana, who plays both ukulele and traditional Samoan percussion instruments.
Andrews' ensemble will present a series of original compositions developed during his time as the 2024 Jazz Composer-in-Residence at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. These works reflect a compositional approach shaped by both the harmonic and improvisational sensibilities of contemporary jazz pianists such as Brad Mehldau, Robert Glasper, and Aaron Parks, and the rhythmic, melodic, and resonant qualities of indigenous Samoan music, drawn from my own cultural heritage. This synthesis seeks to articulate a distinctly Pasifika jazz sound. This performance marks the live debut of the full suite of compositions, which have been recorded and are set to be released later this year.