Jeff Clyne

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Jeffrey Ovid "Jeff" Clyne (born January 29, 1937 in London ; † November 16, 2009 there ) was a British jazz bassist .

Live and act

Clyne taught himself to play the double bass for the most part, which he was able to perfect during his military service in a military band from 1955 to 1957, so that he then worked with Stan Tracey . In 1958 he joined the Jazz Couriers of Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes . In the following decade he played in various Hayes bands, but also accompanied soloists in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club . In 1965 he recorded his classic album Under Milkwood with Tracey's quartet , but then moved in the direction of free jazz with Gordon Beck , John McLaughlin , Tony Oxley and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble . Between 1969 and 1971 he was a member of the founding line-up of Ian Carr's fusion band Nucleus , where he increasingly used the bass guitar and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival as well as at the Newport Jazz Festival . He then played increasingly with Julie and Keith Tippett , but also with John Stevens' group Amalgam , with Gilgamesh and Gary Boyle's Isotope , before founding the fusion group Turning Point in 1976 with Pepi Lemer . For this band, which included musicians like Phil Todd , Gary Husband and guests like Allan Holdsworth and Neil Ardley , he wrote many compositions and released the two albums Creatures Of the Night and Silent Promise with her . Clyne also accompanied singers such as Blossom Dearie , Annie Ross , Norma Winstone and Annette Peacock and played with musicians such as Lucky Thompson , Zoot Sims , Phil Woods , Jim Hall , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Michael Gibbs , Toots Thielemans , Phil Lee and Tal Farlow . In recent years he has performed with Gordon Beck and John Etheridge .

He taught for many years as a music teacher, including as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music , the London Center of Contemporary Music and as an associate professor at the Royal Academy of Music and was with Trevor Tomkins the director of the Mehr Cleff Summer Jazz Course .

Discographic notes

  • Phil Lee & Jeff Clyne Twice Upon a Time (Cadillac, 1988)

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Independent
  2. ^ Guardian Obituary
  3. ^ Turning Point
personal data
SURNAME Clyne, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clyne, Jeffrey Ovid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2009
Place of death London