Lyn Christie information

Lyn Christie
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
Instrument(s)	Double bass; electric bass; keyboards;

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]

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]

^ "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.

[1] "Requiem". Local 802 AFM. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

[Feather_1-2] 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.

[3] Eugene Chadbourne,Lyn Christie profile, allmusic.com; accessed 6 March 2015.

[4] The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, by Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler, New York: Horizon Press, 1976.

[5] The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; First Edition, two volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Press, 1988.

[6] The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

[7] The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second edition. Three volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Publishers, 2002.

[8] International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory;. Eighth edition, Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1977.

[9] Biographical Dictionary of Jazz, by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1982.

[Hellman-10] Balliett, Whitney (24 December 1990). "Harp lady". The New Yorker: 40–44.

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