Bryce Benno Rohde is an Australia

Australia

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n jazz

Jazz

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 pianist and composer. He was strongly influenced by George Russell's musical conceptions.

Rohde was born in Hobart

Hobart

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, Tasmania

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. He played jazz in Adelaide

Adelaide

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 early in his career, then moved to Canada

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 in 1953. In 1954 he and two other expatriate

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s plus an American formed the Australian Jazz Quartet/Quintet . The group recorded several albums and toured widely in the United States, then broke up in 1958 following a tour of Australia itself. Rohde led his own quartets in Australia until 1964, and moved to California

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 in 1965. Since then he based himself out of San Francisco, leading his own ensembles at times. Among those Australian musicians with whom he worked extensively are Bruce Cale

Bruce Cale

Bruce Cale is an Australian jazz double-bassist and composer.Cale began studying music at age nine, and worked professionally in Sydney from 1958. He worked with Bryce Rohde from 1962-65, then moved to England, where he played with Tubby Hayes and worked in John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble...

 and Charlie Munro

Charlie Munro

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Discography

• Bryce Rohde Quartet In Concert LP (CBS Coronet, December 1960)
• Straight Ahead! LP (CBS Coronet, mid 1962)
• Para Ti 7" (CBS, May 1963)
• Corners LP (CBS, June 1963)
• Big 'n Bryce LP: Clarence "Big" Miller & the Bryce Rohde Quartet (CBS, April 1964)
• Snowflakes 7" (CBS, June 1964)
• Just Bryce LP (CBS, March 1965)
• The Bryce Rohde Story - Volume 1 LP (44/Phonogram, September 1977: recorded 1960 & 1962)
• The Bryce Rohde Story - Volume 2 LP (44/Phonogram, September 1977: recorded 1963 & 1965)
• More Spring LP (MBS Jazz, 1990: recorded June 1962)