Lyn Christie
| Lyn Christie | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lyndon Van Christie |
| Born |
3 August 1928 Australia |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Bassist |
| Instruments | Double bass |
Lyn Christie, MD, (born Lyndon Van Christie; 3 August 1928) is an Australian-born American jazz bassist. He earned a medical degree from Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and, while practicing as a physician in Australia, played in the Australian jazz scene until he moved to New York City in the mid-1960s.
In New York, he initially worked as a medical doctor, continued to play jazz and attended the Juilliard School of Music. Christie has played with a variety of notable jazz musicians including Ahmad Jamal, Jaki Byard, Chet Baker, Paul Winter, Buddy Rich, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Tal Farlow and many others.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
In the 1970s he established a teaching position and eventually became Director Emeritus of Jazz Studies at Westchester Conservatory in New York State.
External links
- Profile, mville.edu; accessed 6 March 2015.
References
- ↑ Eugene Chadbourne,Lyn Christie profile, allmusic.com; accessed 6 March 2015.
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, by Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler, New York: Horizon Press, 1976.
- ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; First Edition, two volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Press, 1988.
- ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
- ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second edition. Three volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Publishers, 2002.
- ↑ International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory;. Eighth edition, Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1977.
- ↑ Biographical Dictionary of Jazz, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1982.