Alumni of the Rodger Fox Big Band

Chris White , (saxophone) MD Van Morrison and Film Composer

Vanessa McGowan , (bass) Tattletale Saints and respected women-in-music blogger

Matt Penman, (bass) Joshua Redman, John Schofield, Wayne Shorter and the SFJazz Collective

Greg Tuohey , (guitar) Berklee scholarship winner, Flipside and Joe Pug

Mat Fieldes , (bass) Joe Jackson, Ornette Coleman and Steve Vai

Godfrey de Grut, (saxophone) Tertiary lecturer and Silver Scroll winner for “Misty Frequencies”, ELEMENOP, Boh Runga, Tui winner for “Came a Wierd Way"

Mike Booth , (trumpet) Tertiary lecturer and composer, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Cats Away

Aaron Nevezie, (guitar) Co-Owner Bunker Studios, New York.

Mike Young, (trombone) NZ Music Commission

Lauren Ellis, (drums) University of Southern California studying with Peter Eskine, Richter City Rebels.

Nick Granville, (guitar) Alex Sipiagin, Kurt Elling, Chris DeBurgh, Delta Goodrem, Ronan Keeting, Mike Stern, Joey Defrancisco, the NZ Symphony Orchestra.

Andrea Lisa, (guitar) Kurt Whalum, Jonathan Bulter, Ben Sheppard.

Neville Hall, (saxophone) Peking Man with Margaret Urlich, 2018 ISCM World Music Days in Beijing, performed by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Nick Tipping, (bass) Radio NZ Broadcaster.

Craig Walters, (saxophone) Mike Nock, Michael Bublé, Harry Connick Jnr, Franki Valli & The Four Seasons, The Temptations, Rene Geyer, Marcia Hines, Tina Arena, James Morrison & the Sydney Jazz Orchestra.

Peter Blake, (keyboards) NZ music history through his television work in the 1970s and 1980. Grunt Machine, Ready to Roll, wrote the TVNZ news theme.

Liam Ryan, (keyboards) Narc, Midge Marsden, Manager National Youth Jazz Competition Tauranga