Lyndon Van Christie (3 August 1928 – 28 March 2020[1]) was an Australian-born American-based jazz bassist.[2] He earned a medical degree from Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and, while practising as a physician in Sydney from 1961, played in the local jazz scene until he moved to New York City in 1965.[2]
Lyn Christie | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lyndon Van Christie |
| Born | 3 August 1928 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 28 March 2020 (aged 91) |
| Genres | Jazz, Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, medical practitioner |
| Instruments | |
In New York, he worked as chief medical resident at Yonkers General Hospital (1966–68), continued to play jazz and attended the Juilliard School of Music studying with Homer Mensch (1968–69).[2] Christie played with a variety of fellow jazz musicians including Ahmad Jamal, Jaki Byard, Chet Baker, Paul Winter, Buddy Rich, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Tal Farlow and many others.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He was the regular bass player in harpist Daphne Hellman's trio, Hellman's Angels.[10]
In the 1970s he established a teaching position and eventually became director emeritus of jazz studies at Westchester Conservatory in New York State.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Requiem". Local 802 AFM. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007). "Christie, Lyn (Lyndon Van)". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Balliett, Whitney (24 December 1990). "Harp lady". The New Yorker: 40–44.
External links
edit- Profile, mville.edu; accessed 6 March 2015.