Commonwealth Jazz Club is a 1965 music television miniseries which was co-produced in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Premise

Jazz music performances were featured in this six-programme co-production of ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 (Australia), the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 (Britain) and CBC Television (Canada). Each nation produced two half-hour episodes for the series.

Scheduling

In Canada four of the Commonwealth Jazz Club episodes, including both Canadian contributions, were broadcast on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 9 to 30 September 1965.

Episodes

• Australia: (Peter Page director) Graeme Bell
  Graeme Bell
  Graeme Emerson Bell AO MBE is an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader...
  
   and his All Stars
• Australia: (Peter Page director) Don Burrows
  Don Burrows
  Donald Vernon Burrows, AO, MBE is an Australian jazz and swing musician, playing the clarinet, saxophone, and flute....
  
   Quartet with Judy Bailey (piano)
• Canada: (Paddy Sampson producer) Jimmy Dale
  Jimmy Dale (musician)
  Jimmy Dale is a Canadian arranger, composer, conductor, organist, and pianist of English birth. He was active as a music director for both Canadian and United States television during the 1970s and 1980s. He has also composed several film and television scores and written a number of tv theme...
  
   Orchestra and the Sonny Greenwich
  Sonny Greenwich
  Sonny Greenwich was born in Hamilton, Ontario on New Years Day of 1936. He is a Canadian Avant-garde jazz guitarist. He has played in major Canadian and American cities including a concert at Carnegie Hall. He has performed with such 'greats' as Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy...
  
   Quartet
• Canada: (Paddy Sampson producer) Tony Collacott Trio (Collacott piano, Bob Price acoustic double bass, Ricky Marcus drums) and the Rob McConnell
  Rob McConnell
  Robert Murray Gordon "Rob" McConnell, was a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator, and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
   Quartet (McConnell trombone, Ed Bickert
  Ed Bickert
  Edward Isaac "Ed" Bickert, CM is a Canadian jazz guitarist.-Early life:Second youngest of his family, Bickert was born in Hochfeld, Manitoba; his family moved shortly after he was born to Vernon, British Columbia...
  
   guitar, Bill Britto acoustic double bass, Bruce Farquhar drums)
• United Kingdom: (Colin Charman director) Benny Green presenter, The Commonwealth Big Band (Tubby Hayes music director, Bob Burns, Art Ellefson, Freddy Logan acoustic double bass, Ronnie Ross reeds, Ray Swinfield, Gib Wallace trombone, Kenny Wheeler trumpet)
• United Kingdom: (Colin Charman director) Benny Green presenter, Kenny Baker
  Kenny Baker (trumpeter)
  Kenny Baker was born on 1 March 1921 in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire and died 7 December 1999. He was an accomplished player of jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn, and a composer.-Biography:...
  
  trumpet, Tony Coe, Jackie Dougan drums, Spike Heatley acoustic double bass, Dudley Moore piano, Tommy Whittle tenor sax.