Experimental music for three bands at once! LCR (Left, Centre, Right) is a madcap ensemble from the mind of saxophonist and composer Callum Passells, featuring three sax/bass/drums 'trios' playing together - sometimes in beautiful harmony, sometimes in intense musical combat.
$45/$35 BUY TICKETS
Acclaimed New York-based guitarist Rory Stuart visits Aotearoa for the first time, performing his original music with Alan Brown & Ron Samsom.
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Acclaimed pianist & composer Jonathan Crayford presents new music in an electric trio, with Wil Goodinson & Max Crook. Always exciting, don’t miss out!
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Wellington saxophonist Jake Baxendale brings together a remarkable collective of Aotearoa’s leading jazz and contemporary musicians for Waypeople, a luminous new album inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s English-language version of the Tao Te Ching. Drawing from jazz, Chinese classical music and improvisation, the project fuses lyrical storytelling with meditative textures and powerful ensemble interplay.
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Junglefowl bring a clucking funky bunch of tunes from the mind of Mostyn Cole, with Dixon Nacey, Alan Brown & Elijah Whyte, blending blend their talents to create a musical concoction of edgy guitar hooks and quirky organ lines with crispy poultry goodness.
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We’re back! In a great new space! And we’re kicking off with hard-swinging, New Caledonian organist extraordinaire Michel Benebig, along with Roger Manins, Finn Scholes, Michael Howell, and Ron Samsom. Be there for the beginning of our next chapter!
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Friends, collaborators, and mainstays of the New York jazz scene, Matt Penman and Aaron Goldberg present original music in a piano trio format, in Auckland for one night only! Do not miss out!
$75 / $55 BUY TICKETS
Always anticipated, UNWIND returns to CJC on their 2026 NZ tour. Saxophonist Hayden Chisholm visits home from Europe, reuniting with Norman Meehan and Paul Dyne, for a one-off Auckland concert at Lewis Eady piano showroom in Epsom.
$45 / $35 BUY TICKETS
Join us for a special live recording event at Kenneth Myers Centre. Olivier Holland’s GJAZZ5 Algeria/India Fusion brings together jazz and world music masters: special guest Djamel Laroussi on guitar/vocals meets Indian tabla from Manjit Singh, and drummer Stephen Thomas, for a unique collaboration of some of the rhythmically richest musical cultures on the planet.
$35/$25 BUY TICKETS
Three-time GRAMMY nominated saxophonist and composer Troy Roberts is one of the most in-demand musicians on the New York jazz scene. After a sell-out performance in 2022, he returns for a special one-off CJC event!
TICKETS SOLD OUT!! STANDING ROOM DOOR SALES AVAILABLE FROM 7PM
Alan Brown brings back his organ-driven funk trio, with Dixon Nacey and Elijah Whyte, for a special CJC event! Don’t miss them!
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Ben Lerner, Nick Jansen and George Greenhill’s trio has become a mainstay of the Sydney jazz scene. Having studied in New York, and with several members relocating there, this may be your first and only chance to hear this great band, as they tour Australia & NZ to promote their debut album “Play Trio” Don’t miss out!
$40/$30 LIMITED DOOR SALES TONIGHT!
Aussie saxophone titan Tim O’Dwyer, and drummer Darren Moore, present Love Cry - Ecstatic Ballads for Broken Hearts, with locals Jeff Henderson, Tashi Stewart, Sean Martin-Buss and Eamon Edmundson-Wells, with opening act DAFT HORNS.
$15 General Admission BUY TICKETS
Internationally acclaimed clarinetist Adrian Cox, presents “Makin’ Runs” - delving into alternative ragtime repertoire from the early jazz era, aiming to capture and express the timeless essence of the music, with “Honey” Boulton on guitar, and bassist Alex Gilson.
Don’t miss a rare opportunity to hear a master of this style!
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Drummer Maximillian Crook presents House of Green Branches - original folk-inspired music with a sense of place and nods to ECM, ambient, & avant-garde - with a hotshot band of Lukas Fritsch, Joe Kaptein, Robin Baek & Tyler Diprose.
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Inspired by Herbie Hancock's 90s album The New Standard, guitarist Keith Price brings arrangements of re-imagined popular tunes, with Na'amah Cheiban, Francesca Parussini , Michael Nash, Tyler Diprose, and Maximilian Crook.
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Auckland saxophonist Felix Hayes-Tourelle brings a new group of exceptional musicians together.
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We’re breaking our own rules and inviting Jonathan Crayford back to preview music from his forthcoming album, recorded in New York with Ari Hoenig and Fima Ephron. Those large rhythm section shoes will be amply-filled by local Toms: Thomas Friggens and Tom Dennison, for this special encore performance.
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Sorry, due to some last minute challenges, there is no CJC on 19 March. We’re back next week!
Two masters together, performing recently composed and recorded music.
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Manjit Singh’s Indian/Jazz fusion group Takadimi returns to CJC, with special guest Shalu Garg on Sitar.
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Drummer Jeff Garus pays homage to the organ groups of the great Jimmy Smith (& others) with Ryan Tomov, Adrian Brown and Tyler Diprose.
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In what has become a beautiful tradition, Unwind returns to CJC with Ember, their new album on Rattle Records, plus some old favourites! Featuring Hayden Chisholm, Norman Meehan, Paul Dyne, and special guest Julien Dyne on drums. At times delicate, resonant, contemplative, and always special… not to be missed!
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Pianist Lucas Kewell returns home, bringing some friends he’s met through his studies in Switzerland to meet his old friends from Aotearoa: Zoltan Fekete from Hungary on drums, and Slovenian vocalist Neža Ozinger, are joined by locals Toby Barrett on sax and bassist Tyler Diprose.
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Join Trioglodyte, Jeff Henderson, Chris O'Connor & Eamon Edmundson-Wells, with special guests Allana Goldsmith, Rosie Langabeer, Sean Martin-Buss, and Rāhana Tito Taylor as they romp and frolic through classics of the season and new compositions which split the seams of familiar tropes.
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Original recording bassist Gene Perla remembers Elvin Jones’ seminal post-Coltrane album, “Live at The Lighthouse” with a stellar band featuring Aussie saxophonist Andy Sugg, Roger Manins, Kevin Field and Mark Lockett.
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A special ‘returning home’ concert from an exciting European jazz duo: Kiwi pianist Alex Ventling is back again with British drummer, Phelan Burgoyne, as they tour their much awaited album, ‘The View’.
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Drummer George Brajkovich metaphorically steps from behind the kit, to lead his own band at CJC for the first time, with pianist Jonathan Crayford, Frank Talbot and Toby Barrett on saxes, and Wil Goodinson filling out the bass.
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Waypeople juxtaposes contemporary jazz and songwriting with ancient Chinese wisdom in a musical journey through the words of the Tao Te Ching. Sung by Chelsea Prastiti, and anchored by the guzheng of Jia Ling, composer Jake Baxendale leads a stellar ensemble of Callum Passells, Dan Hayles, Johnny Lawrence and Cory Champion.
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Pianist, composer and vocalist Julie Mason brings a set of original music to CJC, with a hot band of Mike Booth, Steve Sherriff, Mostyn Cole and Steve Cournane.
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Due to a prior booking in venue, there is no CJC gig on 6 November.
Wellington saxophonist, and Fullbright Scholar recently returned from California Institute of the Arts, visits CJC for the first time! With local luminaries Callum Passells, Bethany Britten and Ron Samsom.
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Award-winning Welington composer and guitarist Callum Allardice returns to CJC with a trans-Tasman quartet, to celebrate his new album.
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