The golden age of dancehalls and big bands will bring back memories for many of us, and that's particularly true for the dedicated members of the Manawatu Jazz Club.
The club is this weekend celebrating 50 years, and invited Newshub along.
Inside the club, the love of jazz is palpable - Manawatu Jazz Club members past and present, reminiscing about the genre's golden years.
"It wasn't about the money; we were just young guys enthusiastic about playing the music," says former club president Colin Brown.
Mr Brown was one of the club's first presidents, and remembers dancehall gigs well.
"The people that were running it would get the nurses to pick them up from the hospital, and if you had the girls there you had the guys; there was no liquor," says Mr Brown.
The club started back in 1966, and regularly made the paper.
Terry Tawharu, the bass player, says it's as exciting as ever, although things have changed over 50 years.
"It's a dramatic change really. I can't keep up with those young fullas now.
"Doing what it took me 40, 50 years to learn - they do it in a few years."
But music, he says, was never a choice.
"Music's in the blood. You talk to most musos - it's what keeps you going, keeps you alive," he says.
The celebration is part reunion and part promotion to get younger musicians involved to ensure another 50 years of jazz.
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