Jeff Clyne

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

Life and work

Clyne brought the bass playing mostly even with that allowed him to complete during his military service in a military band from 1955 to 1957, so he 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 bands of Hayes, but also accompanied soloists at Ronnie Scott 's Jazz Club. In 1965 he played with the quartet of Tracey its a classic album Under Milkwood, but then moved with Gordon Beck, John McLaughlin, Tony Oxley and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the direction of free jazz. Between 1969 and 1971 he was a member of the founding members of Ian Carr's Nucleus fusion band, where he increasingly began the bass guitar and was experiencing at the Montreux Jazz Festival as well as at the Newport Jazz Festival. Then he played more with Julie and Keith Tippett, but also with John Stevens amalgam group, with Gilgamesh and Gary Boyle's Isotope before with Pepi Lemer founded the fusion group Turning Point 1976. For this band belonged to the musician Phil Todd, Gary Husband and guests like Allan Holdsworth and Neil Ardley, he wrote many compositions and published with their two albums Creatures Of the Night and Silent Promise. Clyne also accompanied singers such as Blossom Dearie, Annie Ross, Norma Winstone or Annette Peacock and played with musicians like 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 educator, including as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music, the London Centre of Contemporary Music and Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and was with Trevor Tomkins head of More Cleff Summer Jazz Course.

Disco Graphical Notes

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

Lexigraphic entries

• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley: Jazz Rough Guide, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 978-3-476-01892-2