Bruce Cale is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n jazz

Jazz

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 double-bassist and composer.

Cale began studying music at age nine, and worked professionally in Sydney

Sydney

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 from 1958. He worked with Bryce Rohde

Bryce Rohde

Bryce Benno Rohde is an Australian jazz pianist and composer. He was strongly influenced by George Russell's musical conceptions....

 from 1962-65, then moved to England, where he played with Tubby Hayes

Tubby Hayes

Edward Brian "Tubby" Hayes was an English jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known for his tenor saxophone playing in groups with fellow sax player Ronnie Scott and with trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest British jazz instrumentalists.- Early life :Hayes was born...

 and worked in John Stevens

John Stevens

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's Spontaneous Music Ensemble. After obtaining a scholarship

Scholarship

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, he attended the Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 starting in 1966 and remained in the U.S. until 1977, where he played with Ernie Watts

Ernie Watts

Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...

 and John Handy

John Handy

John Richard Handy III is an American jazz alto saxophonist.-Biography:In the 1960s, Handy led several groups...

 among others. While in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 1974, he composed the piece Iron Cross for the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Los Angeles Philharmonic

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. Upon his return to Sydney in 1977 he led a small ensemble with a shifting lineup which included, at times, Roger Frampton

Roger Frampton

Roger Frampton was an Australian jazz pianist, saxophonist, composer, and educator. Based in Sydney, he played a major role in shaping the evolution of Australian jazz...

, Bob Bertles

Bob Bertles

-Career:A self taught musician, Bertles began his performing career in 1956. In the late 1950s and early 60s Bertles was a member of the developing modern jazz scene that grew out of venues like the Mocambo in Newtown and the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Sydney's Kings Cross.Active in clubs, on TV, as a...

, Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow is an Australian jazz composer, multi-instrumentalist: especially tenor, alto saxophone, soprano saxophonist, baritone saxophone and flute....

, Charlie Munro

Charlie Munro

Charles Robert Munro was a jazz reedist and flautist born in New Zealand but based chiefly out of Australia....

, Phil Treloar

Phil Treloar

Phillip Maurice Treloar is an Australian jazz drummer, percussionist and composer. In an extensive career devoted to creative pursuit Treloar has addressed himself to the problems of relationship found at the intersection of notated music-composition and improvisation...

, Alan Turnbull

Alan Lawrence Turnbull

Alan Lawrence Turnbull, is a jazz drummer and freelance professional musicianAlan Turnbull was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1943...

 and Tony Buck

Tony Buck

Tony Buck is a drummer and percussionist. He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music , becoming involved in the Australian jazz scene....

 as sidemen. He led his own Bruce Cale Orchestra through the 1980s, recording three albums with the group. In 1981 he studied for a period in the U.S. with George Russell, and also premiered a double bass concerto

Concerto

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, performing as the soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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. He concentrated on composing from 1988 to 1995, then returned to jazz in the latter half of the 1990s.