The Nelson Jazz Club Big Band will be playing at the Ruby Bay Community fundraising event on Sunday February 26. This is a community fun event to raise funds for the renovation of the local Hall…at the same time endevouring to achieve “strengthening our community” principles. The band will be playing from 3:00pm to [...]

The Nelson Jazz Club Big Band will be performing at Motueka on Monday February 6 – Waitangi Day. The Band will be playing from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Hotel Motueka, 77 High Street, after the conclusion of the Motueka River Raft Race – where homemade rafts will be negotiating 7 kilometers of the Motueka [...]

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The Nelson Jazz Club Big Band will be playing at the Golden Bear Brewing Company in Mapua on 27th November 2011.  The venue is well known for its hand crafted beers, Mexican food and great ambience. The gig starts at 3:00pm.  No cover charge.  See you there…. Golden Bear Brewing Company

  The Nelson Jazz Club Big Band – styled after the great bands of the Forties and Fifties – is a traditional stage band that plays syncopated written arrangements with improvised interludes. Most people will be familiar with Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, but Big Bands have been popular since the dawn [...]

?Come and dance the night away with the NJC Big Band. Live at the boathouse. FRIDAY MARCH 11 from 7pm. Cafe will be open from 5pm. $5 cover charge on the door Children Free

Our own Big Band experience with a repertoire focused around the great music written especially for a large ensemble. The Nelson Jazz Club Big Band is the latest incarnation of a group of jazz enthusiasts who wanted to pursue their musical interests in a large ensemble setting; a traditional stage band playing syncopated written arrangements [...]

The Nelson Jazz Club Big Band – performing at The Playhouse May 30th 2008. “There was a full house and we had to play two encores before an appreciative audience let us off the stage”, says Band Leader, Mike Delceg.

This is the elusive pic from 1959 Robbie Bruce, Noel Evans, Dave [Bruno] Lawrence, Dave Thompson, BRS. VIC “A” social on the Terrace, 1959. Submitted by Brian Smythe.

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