Events

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 […]

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 […]

The Tiptet is a quintet in the classic hard bop style, led by Nick Tipping, bass player and host of jazz and classical programmes on RNZ Concert and National. The ensemble also includes trumpet player Michael Taylor, saxophonist Oscar Laven, pianist Ayrton Foote and drummer Mike Jensen.  As with Nick’s RNZ shows, a Tiptet gig features […]

Founded by long-time Wellington Jazz Club president, Mike Bain, City Jazz is a 7-piece band that has been playing New Orleans-inspired jazz for over 20 years. The band performs at jazz clubs and jazz festivals across the lower North Island. Its core repertoire includes dixieland classics, plus swing numbers emphasising Duke Ellington and Count Basie. […]