Paul Buckmaster
Paul John Buckmaster (born in 1946 London) is a Grammy Award-winning English artist, arranger and composer.
He began learning the cello at the age of 4 and graduated from the Royal College of Music at age 16.[1]
He is perhaps best known for his orchestral collaborations with Elton John. He has displayed professional mastery as a cellist but he has also worked as an arranger on various hit songs, including David Bowie's "Space Oddity" (1969), and played with Miles Davis on On the Corner, for which he also did the arrangements.
In film, Buckmaster composed the original score for Terry Gilliam's science fiction hit "12 Monkeys," (Universal, 1995), which starred Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt.
Buckmaster won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for Drops of Jupiter.[2]
[edit] Selected discography
- Blood, Sweat and Tears
- No Sweat
- Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
- Angelo Branduardi
- Angelo Branduardi '74 (production and arrangements; also composer of Eppure chiedilo agli uccelli)
- Branduardi '81 (strings arrangement in La collina del sonno)
- Chitinous Ensemble
- Chitinous (Compositions and arrangements)
- Lloyd Cole
- Don't Get Weird on Me Babe
- Shawn Phillips
- Contribution
- Collaboration
- Second Contribution
- Faces
- Rolling Stones
- Sticky Fingers ("Sway" and "Moonlight Mile")
- Carly Simon
- No Secrets (three tracks)
- Hotcakes
- Rodney Franklin
- You'll Never Know
[edit] External links
- Christian Düblin: Interview with Paul Buckmaster on Xecutives.net
[edit] References
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Paul Buckmaster: Biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p60589. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ "Drops of Jupiter > Charts & Awards > GRAMMY Awards". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r524969. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
