Auckland Jazz and Blues Club

Welcome to the home of jazz in Auckland

Birkenhead RSA, Recreation Drive, Birkenhead.

Please see EVENTS section for weekly concert details and GALLERY for weekly concert photos.

($10 members/$25 non-members - cash only - includes raffle draw for bottle of wine.)

Non-member contact registration required at time of entry.

Restaurant (downstairs) open 5 - 8.30pm. Full bar services.


The club was formed around 1992 to further the interests of jazz & blues music in Auckland.

The club has a membership of around 250 and has regular club nights every Tuesday evening at the Birkenhead RSA.

Concerts start at 7.30pm and finish at 9.30pm with a break at half time. Meals are available before the concert. Full bar service.

Ample off-street parking. Come early to secure your seating.

Each night features a different local or out of town band.. Sometimes an International star makes an appearance.

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Bon Voyage to Julie Mason & Phil Broadhurst

  • Point Chevalier RSA 1136 Great North Road Auckland, Auckland, 1022 New Zealand (map)

BON VOYAGE TO PHIL BROADHURST & JULIE MASON, & FAREWELL TO THE NZ SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
Well known Auckland Jazz musicians Phil Broadhurst & Julie Mason are making their last appearance at the club, prior to their departure for a year in Europe in December 2016.

PHIL BROADHURST is one of NZ's finest jazz pianists, composers, broadcasters and jazz tutors, and has run the Jazz Studies Centre at the NZSM since the year 2000. The first Kiwi to receive the MNZM for services to jazz,  this year Phil won the Tui Jazz Album of the Year Award (for the 4th time) for "Panacea."

PIanist and vocalist JULIE MASON is one of NZ's foremost women in jazz. She has performed all over the globe, including Paris, London, Berlin, The USA, Australia and the South Pacific. She has been a finalist in the Jazz Album of the Year Awards, and recently released her 6th album "Layers of Disguise".

Their concert will also feature a set from the 3 remaining 3rd year students at the NZSM's Massey (Albany) campus. They are vocalists ALLANA GOLDSMITH & KYLIE TODD, and saxophonist THABANI GAPARA. They will perform some 3-part harmony arrangements along with vocalist JULIE MASON. Other ex-students & tutors from the NZSM may also make guest appearances through the evening.

The rhythm section is the very fine ALBERTO SANTARELLI on bass, and Kiwi icon drummer FRANK GIBSON, both former tutors at the NZSM.

Door Charge:
Members $5.00
Non Members $15.00

Earlier Event: September 13
Club Manouche with Kitti Martini
Later Event: September 27
Prima Swing Riot