Paul DYNE
Paul is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and highly regarded jazz musicians and teachers.
He was brought up in Timaru in a musical family with an appreciation for jazz, and had the good fortune to attend the only school in the southern hemisphere to have a brass band, in which he learned to read music. His first instrument was the harmonica, then he taught himself to play guitar, recorder and piano before picking up the clarinet.. Throughout his school and university years he played clarinet and sax in various bands before stumbling upon an old double bass in a university cupboard.
While teaching in Canada from 1970 until 1980, he played with a number of top Canadian musicians and US jazz legends, such as Sonny Stitt and Pepper Adams. From the late 80s through 2002 Paul was Head of the Jazz programme at Massey/NZSM. He led the team that produced the first Bachelor of Music (Jazz) in New Zealand and was (together with Norman Meehan) the first Associate Professor in Jazz in New Zealand.
In the 80s he teamed up with drummer Roger Sellers, a strong musical partnership that lasted 23 years. The pair played on numerous radio programmes and recordings, his Paul’s Shelter of the Ti Tree, a finalist for a Jazz Tui Award in 2006.
Other notable recordings include collaborations with taonga puoro master Richard Nunns (Hikoi/Journey), drummer John Rae and guitarist Al Campbell (Storm in a Teacup), pianist Jonathan Crayford and drummer Roger Sellers (Our Own Sweet Way), and more recently pianist Norman Meehan and alto saxophonist Hayden Chisholm in the group Unwind (Unwind and Orange).
