Performance
Lyn Christie
Lyn Christie is credited on 66 releases across 21 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
66
Pressings credited
21
Albums
7
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Lyndon Van Christie (3 August 1928 – 28 March 2020) was an Australian-born American-based jazz bassist. 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. 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). 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. He was the regular bass player in harpist Daphne Hellman's trio, Hellman's Angels. In the 1970s he established a teaching position and eventually became director emeritus of jazz studies at Westchester Conservatory in New York State.
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Credited work
66 releases · 21 albums · active 1962–2021
- Performance · 87
Studios: Vanguard Studios · The Sign Of Times · Dimensional Sound Studios, N.Y. · Carnegie Hall
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Tal Farlow
- Toshiko Akiyoshi
- The Mike Mainieri Quartet
- Linc Chamberland
- Don Friedman
- Sarah Kernochan
- Peter Thom (3)
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