Important – October Gig now on Sunday 12th. To avoid clashing with the Wellington Jazz Festival the October gig is on Sunday October 12th at the usual 5:00pm to 7:00pm. It will feature Greg Crayford’s ‘Best of the Realm’ musicians and playbook. See you there! Aotearoa musical stalwart Greg Crayford has been running high-quality jazz […]
Capital City Big Band (CCBB) is thrilled to perform for the Wellington Jazz Club — a true cornerstone of live jazz in the capital! CCBB is a dynamic ensemble made up of top professional players, standout community musicians, and emerging young talent from across the Wellington region. Over the years, the band has flourished under […]
A treat to blow the last notes on an excellent year. We have The River City Jazzmen from Christchurch with their authentic brand of Dixieland jazz. Note the earlier time, 3:30-5:30.
April Phillips – April’s Fools – Don’t miss it! April’s Fools are a chic, cool jazz, swing and blues band that will transport you back in time and forward in class. Evoking the smokey, laid-back vibes of dim-lit speakeasy clubs, April Phillips’ smooth and sultry voice is perfectly complemented by some of the capital’s hottest […]
The New Orleans Joymakers is a 7 piece Trad’ jazz band from Auckland. They play swinging music from classic and New Orleans Jazz, through to the Dixieland Music of the Kenny Ball and Chris Barber bands of the 50s and 60s. They play regularly in Auckland and have recently played at the Northern Jazz Club […]
Hannah Griffin, Blair Latham and Norman Meehan have been performing together for many years, playing jazz and original music around Aotearoa New Zealand. For their performance at the Wellington Jazz Club in May 2026 they will present music by Norman – mainly jazz settings of poems by such notables as E E Cummings, Wallace Stevens […]
Greg Rogan and Amity Alton-Lee, collectively known as “Gramity” to their bandmates and musical colleagues, are a husband-and-wife saxophone team, bringing you the classic sound of the twin tenors. Despite being thought of as “interchangeable” in their various bands, Greg and Amity have quite different musical histories: Greg is a talented multi-instrumentalist who has played […]
Wellington Jazz Club Honorary Member, Kevin Clark, has been leading groups in Wellington on piano and trumpet for the past 60 years, in restaurants, jazz joints, jazz festivals, radio programmes, television shows and recordings. Of his three jazz albums, two were awarded Tuis , and one was a finalist. He also released three easy listening jazz-tinged […]
Te Kōkī Big Band One is the advanced jazz ensemble class of the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington, where developing musicians hone their skills through bi-weekly rehearsals, recording sessions, and numerous gigs in Wellington and throughout the country, most recently in collaboration with Orchestra Wellington. The band is assembled through audition of NZSM jazz and […]
The Wellington Jazz Club hosts the annual Te Kōkī Jazz Combo Competition in conjunction with the NZ School of Music. The jointly-organised combo competition provides encouragement, support and performance-experience for young jazz musicians and always delivers a high standard of musicianship. Students compete for best group performances, compositions and arrangements. Members: Free Non-members: Free Students: Free
Neil Billington will be returning to the club in September with his extraordinary harmonica playing. He is known as a leading exponent of the blues but unusually for a player in that style combines this with an equal facility on the especially challenging demands of the chromatic harmonica, the favoured instrument of Larry Adler and […]