Paul Buckmaster
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Paul Buckmaster is an artist, arranger, and composer. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Elton John, but he has also worked as an arranger on various hit songs, including David Bowie's "Space Oddity", and has played with Miles Davis, on On the Corner.
Born in London, England, Paul was taught the cello from age 4. At age eleven, he won a cello scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Buckmaster played and composed in a number of jazz and progressive music groups including the Third Ear Band, Nucleus and Suntreader. In 1969 he helped arrange Bowie's first hit song, "Space Oddity".
Buckmaster met Miles Davis in 1969 and began to study with him in New York City in 1972. He appears on one Davis album: He wrote arrangements for and played electric cello on On the Corner.
He began working with Elton John in 1970, helping arrange his second album, Elton John, and initiating a collabrative effort that exists to the present day. In addition to the aforementioned artists, Buckmaster has arranged music on albums by The Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Mott the Hoople, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Faith Hill, Backstreet Boys, The Darkness, Keith Urban and Celine Dion.
More recently, Buckmaster won a Grammy Award as Best Arranger for the sweeping string arrangement of Train's 2001 song "Drops of Jupiter". He was brought back for the band's following album, My Private Nation.
External links
- [Paul Buckmaster Web page]
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