Jazz on Concert

Herbie Hancock opened the Wellington Jazz Festival last night with a demonstration of just about all the things jazz can be: traditional, experimental, cerebral, emotional, physical, intellectual -… Read more

Music commentator Kirsten Johnstone walks us through what to expect from the Wellington Jazz Festival (June 5 - 9), including some unjazzy jazz tunes from Rafiq Bhatia and Ghost-Note Read more Audio

Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock is in New Zealand this week to open the Wellington Jazz Festival. He talks to Jim Mora about what led him to music in the first place, what he's most proud of, and why some… Read more Video, Audio

Nick Tipping features the headline acts from the 2019 Wellington Jazz Festival, including Herbie Hancock, Alicia Olatuja, Lex French, and Ambrose Akinmusire in this episode of Inside Out. Read more Audio

Herbie Hancock is among the artists on the just-announced lineup for the Wellington Jazz Festival 2019. RNZ Music jazz specialist Nick Tipping appraises the artists playing at this year's event. Read more Video

Barney McAll and Bella Kalolo live at St Peters on 9 June 2018 as part of the Wellington Jazz Festival. Read more Audio

Enjoy this tribute concert for long-time RNZ jazz broadcaster Haydn Sherley, hosted by the Wellington Jazz Club at Meow bar, with Nick Tipping as MC. The Paul Dyne Quintet plays some of Haydn’s… Read more Audio

Wellington jazz pianist Anita Schwabe and her quartet impress with swinging sounds from her album, Eat Your Greens. Read more Audio

Smashingly off-beat melody, humour, beauty and swing abound, capturing the spirit of Thelonious Monk. Read more Audio

Slip into the sublime sound of LA-born singer Gretchen Parlato, who brings her sultry, bossa-nova inspired vocal styling and four-piece band to Wellington for her first ever New Zealand appearance. Read more Audio

Grammy Award winning, genre bending jazz guitarist Bill Frisell played at the Wellington Opera House last week as part of the Wellington Jazz Festival. He speaks with fellow guitarist Elliot Childs… Read more

Brace for impact with these futuristic space-jazz pioneers. Fusing jazz, Afro-beat and electronica, The Comet is Coming are your soundtrack to an imagined apocalypse, with members King Shabaka… Read more Audio