Lyndon Van Christie (3 August 1928 – 28 March 2020) was an Australian-born American-based

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

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 Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones; July 2, 1930 – April 16, 2023) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. For six decades, he was one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. He was a NEA Jazz Ma ...

, Jaki Byard,

Chet Baker Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". Baker earned much attention and ...

Paul Winter Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He is a pioneer of world music and earth music, which interweaves the voices of the wild with instrumental voices from classical, jazz and world music. The ...

, Buddy Rich,

Toshiko Akiyoshi is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, sh ...

, Tal Farlow and many others.''Biographical Dictionary of Jazz,'' by Charles Eugene Claghorn (1911–2005), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:

Prentice Hall Prentice Hall was a major American publishing#Textbook_publishing, educational publisher. It published print and digital content for the 6–12 and higher-education market. It was an independent company throughout the bulk of the twentieth cen ...

, 1982. 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.

References

External links

Profile
mville.edu; accessed 6 March 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, Lyn 1928 births 2020 deaths University of Otago alumni Australian jazz double-bassists American male double-bassists Australian medical doctors Australian expatriates in the United States Place of birth missing 21st-century double-bassists 21st-century Australian male musicians 21st-century Australian musicians Male jazz musicians 20th-century double-bassists 20th-century Australian male musicians 20th-century Australian musicians