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.
[10] In the 1970s he established a teaching position and eventually became director emeritus of jazz studies at Westchester Conservatory in New York State.