Living legend Herbie Hancock is set to light up stages across Australia and New Zealand in October, in his first visit since 2019, promising an electrifying evening from one of music’s most revered names.
We have 2 double passes to give away to the Auckland show!
Enter below by noon, Wednesday 2 October, and tell us your favourite Herbie Hancock tune or album. We'll draw 2 winners on Wednesday afternoon and notify winners directly.
Read MoreCJC Creative Jazz Club Aotearoa is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Arts House Trust, for a Winter Series of jazz, weekly at the historic Pah Homestead, from 10 July 2024.
Read MoreA heartfelt tribute to the late great kiwi jazz pianist, in the Concert Chamber of the Auckland Town Hall, Sunday 17 March 2024
Read MoreSorry for the dirsruption of cancelled gigs. Here’s whats going on, and an ask for help to get through this.
Read MoreThe Wellington Jazz Festival has just published their full lineup for this years festival running 25-29 October featuring international headliners Cecile McLorin Salvant, Gogo Penguin and the Zela Margossian Quintet. They’re joined by local offerings from Rodger Fox Band with King Kapisi, an Amy Winehouse tribute, and commissioned workls from Jake Baxendale, and Kirsten Te Rito, and many more local acts around the capital city, including Aucklanders LacLu, Circling Sun, Yokozuna, and Auckland Jazz Orchestra.
Read MoreCJC Creative Jazz Club is thrilled to be partnering with Oh! Jazz, to show off the best of our New Zealand jazz to subscribers around the world, via their streaming on-demand jazz video service.
We’ll be joining clubs around the globe, in London, Tokyo, Madrid, Sao Paolo, Sydney & Melbourne, as well as organisations like SIMA, and La Fábrica de Arte in Havana, Cuba, all with the same goal of showing off the best of the best their local scene has to offer, and spreading the love of live jazz.
We can offer a special 50% CJC discount to new signups for a limited time only, so get in there, and bring live jazz to your living room!
Read MoreBring a friend for their first time at CJC, and they get in free during May. It’s pretty much that simple, but read on for details!
Read MoreSubmissions for composition proposals for the 2023 Wellington Jazz Festival are open now. Submissions will close at 12pm, Monday 8 May.
In its fifth year, commissions for Aotearoa jazz composers to create new work has become an established highlight of the annual Festival.
Read MoreThere are some great music acts, local and international, in the 2023 Auckland Arts Festival. Check out a few of Ben’s highlight picks, and don’t sleep on getting tickets.
Read MoreWe’re back! Here’s what we need to do to hold events under traffic light RED.
Read MoreHer voice changed everything. Jennifer Hudson is Aretha Franklin in the new movie, RESPECT – only in cinemas August 19.
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.
We have 6 double passes to give away, in person at CJC events on 11 & 18 August, and 2 in an online draw you can enter below.
Read MoreThere’s a brand new gig in town, in one of the oldest operating Auckland restaurants. Tony’s Lord Nelson, with CJC Creative Jazz Club and Link Alliance, brings you live jazz every Friday night from 18 June, with the Roger Manins Trio, 7-10pm.
Read MoreRNZ Concert will broadcast Frank Gibson’s NewBop Quintet, recorded live at CJC in October 2020.
Led by the renowned drummer, the concert features Mike Booth, Pete France, Kevin Field and Cam McArthur.
Tune in Saturday 13 Feb at 8pm on 92.6FM, or listen online.
Read MoreThe Thirsty (Dog) is under new management, and they’ve asked us to help them out with a new series of Funk & Fusion Fursdays, kicking off October 8 with Jungle Fowl. Free entry. What a deal!
Read MoreThursdays now have live jazz, at the newly lauched Wynyard Grill steakhouse, in where else, Wynyard Quarter.
In a relaxed and intimate setting, the nights feature jazz trios led by Keith Price, Ben McNicoll, Caitlin Smith and other guests like La Luna, Roger Manins & more.
Read MoreBe in to win a signed copy of Nathan Haines’ Shift Left on double LP vinyl, in lead up to Shift Left original band reunion concert on 24 August at The Civic, Auckland. Entries close Sunday 18 August.
Read MoreWest Coast jazz visionary Kamasi Washington returns to New Zealand for one very special show at Auckland’s Powerstation on October 10.
Read MoreBe in to win a double pass to La Luna & The Gadjos, Thurs 1 August, at Anthology.
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