Paul Buckmaster

Paul John Buckmaster (born in 1946, London, England) is a Grammy Award-winning English artist, arranger, conductor and composer.

He began learning the cello at the age of 4 and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music at age 21.

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 helped Miles Davis with the preparation of On the Corner. He was involved in the studio sessions which he did the arrangements for but Miles would often just ask him to hum bass lines and rhythms and then the musicians would then just take off. The arrangements he wrote were often used as a starting point which were then transformed until what was being played bore no resemblance to what he had written. This was in keeping with the Stockhausian approach that Buckmaster had been discussing with Miles in the weeks leading up to the session.

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