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.

($10 members/$25 non-members - cash only)


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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COUSIN ALICE

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

WELCOME BACK to the Auckland Jazz and Blues Club operating under red light COVID restrictions.

It is important that the Auckland Jazz and Blues Club provide our members and visitors with a safe community in which they can enjoy our company. Our host the Pt Chevalier Memorial RSA has a Vaccination Policy to operate which requires all staff, volunteers, contractors, performers and visitors over the age of 12 to be vaccinated.

It is regretted that this will cause exclusion for some of our members and visitors, but the reality is that the Government has mandated that we operate under red or orange settings in the traffic light system which requires a vaccination policy.

On entry please wear your mask. Pt Chevalier Memorial RSA will

  • check in the 100 people limit (this includes their staff and visitors, our Jazz Club band and club visitors)

  • check your My Vaccine Pass on paper or phone if over the age of 12. They may ask to verify using photo identification.

  • invite you to scan the QR code or sign in for Covid-19 tracing.

  • remind you to wear your mask and maintain 1m distancing especially at the bar and

    kitchen.

    At the Jazz Club reception desk

  • please keep a 1m distance and we encourage you to wear a mask.

  • please present your membership card for $5 cash entry

  • visitors pay $15 cash and must sign their name and a contact phone number to enter

    the Jazz Club.

    At the Jazz Club

  • Please consider others by wearing a mask and maintaining distancing

  • Food and beverage service has to be collected by the customer.

COUSIN ALICE

Cousine Alice - vocals

Sam Swindells - guitar

Peter Koopman - double bass

Peter France - tenor saxophone

“Think Tom Waites meets Peggy Lee & Marianne Faithful” - Jools Holland

Cousin Alice’s unique singing and playing is gritty, heartfelt and sweet, delivered with humour and a captivating personality. She seduces audiences with her smokey voice and antique banjo-ukelele playing, backed by the finest International Jazz and Blues Musicians.
Holding the crowd in the palm of her hand, be it a large music venue or intimate cabaret club, Cousin Alice is a magnetic performer. A talented singer/songwriter, she performs a collection of jazz standards, pop, nostalgia, blues and her own original work, including “Kukerichoo” , a number one hit in South Korea. Based in London but raised in New Zealand, of Barbadian/Welsh/English/Sephardi parentage, she draws on a rich infusion of Maori, Polynesian, Carribean and Calypso culture.

Live performances have been embraced around the world in Australia, Canada, Caribbean, UK, Europe, Mexico, USA and Ireland. Her residencies include the famous Café de Paris, Brasserie Zedel, Boisdale’s of Canary Wharf and Belgravia, and The National Theatre Foyer Stage on London’s South Bank. She’s swung through many a ballroom, banquet and bar,The Savoy, Hampton Court Palace,The Groucho Club, Berkeley Square Ball,The Times/BFI London International Film Festival,The Canary Wharf Jazz Festival along with an eclectic mix of London nightclubs -The Ram Jam Club, Ray’s Jazz Cafe, the sequined underworld of the Voluptè Lounge, 1920’s themed Black Cotton Club, Soho’s Black Gardenia, Passing Clouds and Stranger Than Paradise.
Her albums and EPs (below) All in a Day, Pour Me, Made in Rio, Live at Boisdales, Under Blue Skies and After Hours are available on Apple Music, Amazon and Spotify.

“Jazz glamour... She’s swing... she’s gorgeous !” - Diva Magazine

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Members $5
Non-members $15






Earlier Event: December 7
MIKE WALKER QUARTET and friends
Later Event: January 18
BEN FERNANDEZ and friends