Auckland Jazz and Blues Club

Club Management

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.

($15 members/$25 non-members - cash only - includes raffle draw for bottle of wine.)

Optional $2 raffle - $60 cash prize.

Non-member contact registration required at time of entry.

Restaurant (downstairs) open 5 - 8.30pm. Full bar service.


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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ANDREW LONDON TRIO

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

Mostly known for his quirky original songs which poke a gently irreverent stick at the prejudices, obsessions and weird little foibles of mainstream Kiwi culture, Andrew London’s roots lie in jazz and blues, with a particular penchant for something known as Western swing, once called ‘the bastard child of jazz and country music that neither would invite into their home’.

His songs have contributed to popular trio Hot Club Sandwich, country band The Cattlestops, the Too Many Chiefs quartet and numerous other collaborations at jazz, blues, folk, country and arts festivals from Queenstown to Auckland, Melbourne to Norfolk Island and Sydney to Saudi Arabia. The enforced isolation of the Covid lockdown saw the duo rearrange his entire repertoire to suit, with the results viewable on eight 40-minute Youtube episodes called ‘Live at The Lon-dons’.

His songs and recordings have gained 4-star reviews in Downbeat magazine (the World’s long-est-running and most widely read jazz magazine), provided soundtracks to movies (Second-Hand Wedding, No Ordinary Sheila, No Petrol, No Diesel), been nominated for Tui awards and contrib-uted to National Radio’s Greatest Song Ever Written and a Correspondence School English Syl-labus.

Partner Kirsten supports as bass-player and occasional lyric-prompt, and even delivers a reper-toire of her own culled from the Peggy Lee, Julie London and Doris Day songbooks.

The Duo is joined for this performance by local champion of the saxophone, Mark Hobson.

andrewlondon.co.nz
andrewlondon11@gmail.com
021496766

Members $15 cash
Non-members $25 cash
No EFTPOS
Non-member contact details required at time of entry.

Earlier Event: September 16
MICHEL BENEBIG