Lyn Christie
Birth nameLyndon Van Christie
Born(1928-08-03)3 August 1928
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died28 March 2020(2020-03-28) (aged 91)
GenresJazz, Classical
Occupation(s)Musician, medical practitioner
Instrument(s)

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]

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

  1. ↑ "Requiem". Local 802 AFM. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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.
  • Profile, mville.edu; accessed 6 March 2015.
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