CJC News

The 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.

CJC 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!

Bring 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!

Submissions 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. 

There 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.

We’re back! Here’s what we need to do to hold events under traffic light RED.

There’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.

RNZ 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.

West Coast jazz visionary Kamasi Washington returns to New Zealand for one very special show at Auckland’s Powerstation on October 10.