Modular Buildings

Jazz Club

A moody blue-and-red corner block with a jazz trio, a pizzeria, and real character.

4.2/5

Set 10312 · 2023

Pieces2,900

Minifigs8

Year2023

Set number10312

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The verdict

If your mate loves the Modular line and wants something with more personality than pure elegance, this one's an easy yes.

It's the 2023 Modular, packed with eight minifigs, a wood-fired pizzeria, and a proper little jazz stage. It's not the prettiest building on the street and the rooms get cramped, but it's got more charm and storytelling than almost any modular before it.

Best for: Modular Buildings collectors who want character and playful details over clean architecture

The full review

What it is

So your mate's eyeing the Jazz Club, the 2023 entry in the LEGO® Modular Buildings line, and honestly it's one of the more characterful sets on the shelf. This is a 2,900-piece corner building that crams a lot into its footprint: a ground-floor jazz club with a little stage, a wood-fired pizzeria next door, a managerial office, a tailor's workshop, a performer's dressing room, and a rooftop greenhouse on top. It's less about grand architecture and more about telling a story, the kind of building where you keep finding tiny scenes tucked into corners. If your friend likes their sets to have a soul rather than just clean lines, this is right up their alley.

The catch

Now the honest bits. At its original 229.99 dollar RRP it's firmly a grown-up-collector purchase, and since it left shelves at the end of 2025 the price has only gone one direction, so tell your mate to expect to pay a premium now that it's retired. The color scheme is the big talking point: bright blue on the lower floor shifting to dark red above, with an almost neon sign out front. Plenty of people love it, but plenty also reckon it clashes on a classic modular street, so it really comes down to taste. The other real gripe from builders is that the interiors get cramped and cluttered. There's so much stuffed into each room that it can feel busy rather than roomy, and the eight minifigs are all staff, so there's nobody there to actually enjoy the pizza or the music.

Who it's for

Who should grab it? Anyone building out a Modular street who wants a set with genuine personality, and anyone who loves a build full of little references and fiddly, rewarding details. The eight minifigs alone (jazz singer, bassist, drummer, pizza chef, delivery driver, club manager, tailor, and a magician) make it feel alive before you've even placed it. Who should skip it? If your mate prefers the understated elegance of the Boutique Hotel or the real-world grandeur of the Police Station, or if a loud color palette bugs them, this might not be the modular to start with. But as a fun, dense, detail-packed building that scored a solid 4.2 out of 5 from the Brickset community, it's an easy recommend for the right collector, especially one who's been meaning to add some nightlife to the block.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build works floor by floor, and it keeps changing gears in a way that stays interesting. The ground floor is the jazz club itself, all dark azure and dark orange with that little stage, then you move up into the dark-red pizzeria and upper rooms, and finish with the rooftop greenhouse. The pizzeria is a highlight to assemble thanks to the wood-fired oven, which uses a brand-new mudguard mold in a genuinely clever way. Along the route you're piecing together a tailor's shop, an office, and a dressing room, so there's real variety instead of the repetitive wall-stacking some big sets fall into. It's fiddly in the best sense, lots of small flourishes and details to place, which is exactly what Modular fans show up for.

On the parts front there's plenty to like. Two brand-new molds debut here: that Vehicle Mudguard 4x3x2 Round used for the pizza oven, plus a new minifig upright bass for the trio. There are fresh recolors too, including rounded 2x2 corner plates in dark bluish grey and 1x2 half-circle tiles with stud in light grey, and rich pockets of Dark Red, Cool Yellow, Dark Azure, and Dark Orange. Every decoration is printed rather than stickered, which LEGO fans always appreciate, and the minifigs carry loads of metallic printing and a new dual-expression face on the singer. At 2,900 pieces for the 229.99 dollar RRP it lands right in the normal Modular range on price-per-piece, and with two new molds plus a stack of useful recolors, parts collectors get real value out of the box.

Fun facts

01The pizzeria's umbrella print is a deliberate nod to the 1994 set 6350 Pizza To Go, a wink for longtime LEGO fans.
02A poster outside the club advertises a Friday performer playing a LEGO trumpet, referencing a bugle element that had been out of production for around two decades.
03With eight minifigs, the Jazz Club has the second-most of any Modular building, beaten only by the much larger Assembly Square.
04Jamie Berard is considered the father of the Modular line, and the Jazz Club's design (led by Anderson Ward Grubb) drew on the nightlife and music scene of cities like Chicago and New York.