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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MIKE MURANE QUINTET (CANCELLED)

  • Birkenhead RSA Recreation Drive Auckland, Auckland, 0626 New Zealand (map)

We regret to advise that this concert has been CANCELLED.

We will re-book the Mike Murane Quintet for a future concert.

VOXNOVA will now perform on 18 March.

The Mike Murane quintet is a collaboration of friends that bring you their fresh interpretations of standards and modern jazz arrangements of popular tunes.

They will delight you with their creative and spontaneous interplay.
Mike Murane on vocals is well known in the Auckland jazz scene having played with many of Auckland’s top line artists. He has a polished and swinging vocal style that’s ideal to the standards made popular by Sinatra and Bennett.

Niduk Wijetilleke on piano is a graduate from Berklee College of Music in USA and arrived in New Zealand in 2016. Since then he has widely performed as a solo pianist and with groups. His sophisticated approach to jazz makes him a much sought after performer.

Aaron Coddel is a versatile freelance musician and a photographer. Being highly sought after, he has played electric and acoustic bass for jazz greats such as Cleo Laine, Mark Murphy and saxophonist George Coleman. Additional engagements include hip-hop artist King Kapisi, singer Annie Crummer, iconic
New Zealand band Hello Sailor and blues outfit Chicago Smoke Shop.

Steve Sherriff has performed with the RNZN band, Rodger Fox Big Band, Auckland Jazz Orchestra, Blue Train and John Key’s Strange Fruit and has toured with Natalie Cole, Eartha Kitt, Johnny Dankworth, Cleo Laine and Randy Crawford. He has also performed in stage shows including West Side Story,
Anything Goes, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Hot Shoe Shuffle.

Jason Orme graduated from P.I.T at the Musicians Institute, Los Angeles in 1988 receiving an honours diploma. He is a highly sought after drummer who has worked with a number of popular Auckland bands and bandleaders such as Rodger Fox, Nairobi Trio, Phil Broadhurst & Julie Mason, Trudy Lile’s ‘Mojave
Group’ & album and Nathan Haines.

Members $10 cash
Non-members $25 cash
No EFTPOS.
Non-member contact registration required at time of entry.

Earlier Event: March 18
VOXNOVA
Later Event: March 25
NICK JONES