Birth name Lyndon Van Christie Role Bassist Name Lyn Christie | Instruments Double bass Occupation(s) Bassist Genres Jazz | |
'The 13th House' T Purrone, Brignola, Christie, Copeland
Lyn Christie MD, (born Lyndon Van Christie; 3 August 1928) is 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 has 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.
In the 1970s he established a teaching position and eventually became Director Emeritus of Jazz Studies at Westchester Conservatory in New York State.