Buell Neidlinger

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Buell Neidlinger (born March 2, 1936 in New York City , † March 16, 2018 in Whidbey Island , Washington ) was an American double bass player , cellist and university professor .

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Neidlinger, who grew up in Westport , Connecticut , was taught the cello as a child. As an adolescent, after taking lessons from Walter Page , he played bass in various jazz bands, but also jammed with the Chicago pianist Joe Sullivan . At Yale College he had his own band with Roswell Rudd , but also played with the musicians of Fats Waller , Rex Stewart , Vic Dickenson , Coleman Hawkins , Eddie Condon and Johnny Windhurst . On the advice of Max KaminskyIn 1955 he moved to New York, where he worked as a bass player in Conrad Janis ' band . From 1956 he played with both Herbie Nichols and Cecil Taylor , with whom he was involved in various formations in recordings from the early 1960s. He also worked with Billie Holiday , Steve Lacy , Gil Evans and Jimmy Giuffre , but was also hired by Gunther Schuller for his third-stream productions. As a studio musician, he accompanied Tony Bennett on the recording of I Left My Heart in San Francisco .

With a Rockefeller scholarship , he dealt intensively with the new tonal language of New Music and performed works by John Cage , Mauricio Kagel , George Crumb and Sylvano Bussotti . After working with the American Symphony Orchestra , he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf in 1967 .

In the phase of the establishment of the jazz course, he was first a university lecturer at the New England Conservatory ; In 1971 he moved to the California Institute of Technology . In Los Angeles he was also involved in recordings with Jean-Luc Ponty and Frank Zappa ; he also worked for Barbra Streisand , Frank Sinatra and the Beach Boys . On the initiative of Neville Marriner , he was principal bassist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for eight years; at the same time he worked since 1973 as the first bass player in the Warner Brothers studio orchestra . He also produced the guitarist Leo Kottke and formed a bluegrass band called Buellgrass . He then took up a number of jazz records again, some of which were released on the K2B2 label he founded together with tenor saxophonist Marty Krystall . He has also recorded with Anthony Braxton , Charles Gayle and John Bergamo and Ivo Perelman . In 2009, Basso Profundo was released, an album with previously unpublished recordings of contemporary works that he had recorded as a bassist with chamber music ensembles between 1964 and 1976.

He had two children with his wife, bassist Margaret Storer; since 2000 he spent his twilight years on Whidbey Island and concentrated again on playing the cello.

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  1. ↑ Feather / Gitler and Kunzler give Westport as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael J. West: Bassist and Cellist Buell Neidlinger Dies at 82 . JazzTimes , March 18, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Neidlinger, Buell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American double bass player (also cellist) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2018
Place of death Whidbey Island