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Doug Caldwell

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Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". Douglas George Caldwell MNZM (born 22 March 1928) is a New Zealand jazz pianist, composer and author.[1]

Biography[edit]

Caldwell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1928 and attended St. Bede's College. He began working at Christchurch venue the Winter Garden in the 1940s and later co-founded a jazz club called the Jazz Inn in the 1950s. He studied musical arrangement and composition at Michigan State University in the United States.[1]

In 1992 he became a tutor, and later lecturer, at the Christchurch Polytechnic Jazz School (now the Ara Institute of Canterbury Jazz School).[1]

Caldwell became the first New Zealand jazz composer to be given full writer membership to Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).[2] In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to jazz music.[3]

Discography[edit]

  • The Doug Caldwell trio (Kiwi Pacific,1990) [4]
  • Off the cuff (Kiwi Pacific, 1992)[5]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Christchurch City Libraries. "Doug Caldwell – Musician profiles – Christchurch City Libraries". christchurchcitylibraries.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  2. Jules, J. (2009). A passion for jazz: the Christchurch scene then and now. Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. pp. 46–47. ISBN 9780908668717. Search this book on
  3. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2006". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. Caldwell, D.; Haines, K.; Meagher, T. (1990). "The Doug Caldwell Trio". Te Puna Search. Retrieved 2021-05-14. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. Caldwell, D. (1992). "Off the cuff". Te Puna Search. Retrieved 14 May 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)



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