Story: Jazz and dance bands

More links and websites

• National Jazz Festival

  The National Jazz Festival is an annual event held by the Tauranga Jazz Society since 1963.

• New Zealand Jazz Foundation

  The New Zealand Jazz Foundation promotes jazz appreciation and jazz education.

• New Zealand School of Music: Jazz

  The jazz education programme at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music.

• Wellington Jazz Festival

  An annual event held in Wellington each winter.

More suggestions and sources

• Avery, Ken. Where are the camels? Wellington: Clare Avery, 2010.

• Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

• Hardie, Richard, and Allan Thomas, eds. Jazz Aotearoa: notes towards a New Zealand jazz history. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2009.

• Meehan, Norman. Serious fun: the life and music of Mike Nock. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2010.

• Thomas, Allan. Music is where you find it: music in the town of Hawera, 1946. Wellington: Music Books New Zealand, 2004.

• White, Georgina. Light fantastic: dance floor courtship in New Zealand. Auckland: HarperCollins, 2007.