Paul John Buckmaster is a Grammy Award-winning

Grammy Award

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 English

United Kingdom

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 artist, arranger

Arrangement

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 and composer

Composer

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.

He began learning the cello at the age of 4 and graduated from the Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

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 at age 16.

He is perhaps best known for his orchestral collaborations

Collaborations

Collaborations may refer to:*Collaborations , a 2002 album by KJ-52*Collaborations , a 2005 album by Sinéad O'Connor*Collaborations , a 2007 album by Jill Scott...

 with Elton John

Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

. He has displayed professional mastery as a cellist but he has also worked as an arranger on various hit songs, including David Bowie

David Bowie

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's "Space Oddity" (1969), and played with Miles Davis

Miles Davis

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 on On the Corner

On the Corner

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, 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)

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...

 for Drops of Jupiter

Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)

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.

Selected discography

• Blood, Sweat and Tears
  • No Sweat

• Bee Gees
  Bee Gees
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  • Odessa
    Odessa (album)
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    (plays cello in "Odessa (City on the Black Sea)")

• Ben Folds
  Ben Folds
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   and Nick Hornby
  • Lonely Avenue
    Lonely Avenue (album)
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• David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
  
  • Space Oddity
    Space Oddity (album)
    -Release history:-7" open reel tape releases:There was only one release of Space Oddity on open reel, in 1972 duplicated by Magtec, North Hollywood, CA 91605. This is a high speed 7.5 ips release...
    
    

• Angelo Branduardi
  Angelo Branduardi
  Angelo Branduardi , is an Italian folk singer and composer who scored relevant success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.- Biography :...
  
  
  • 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)

• Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
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  • Songs of Love and Hate
    Songs of Love and Hate
    Songs of Love and Hate is Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's third album. It was mainly recorded in Columbia Studio A, Nashville, from September 22 to 26, 1970. "Sing Another Song, Boys" was recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. Further recording took place at ...
    
    

• Lloyd Cole
  Lloyd Cole
  Lloyd Cole is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work.-Early life:...
  
  
  • Don't Get Weird on Me Babe

• Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
  • Elton John
    Elton John (album)
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  • Tumbleweed Connection
    Tumbleweed Connection
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  • Friends
    Friends (soundtrack)
    Friends is a project Elton John and Bernie Taupin took on before their breakout success in the United States. Recorded as the soundtrack to the film Friends, it was certified gold on its release on April 6, 1971 in the U.S...
    
    (movie soundtrack)
  • Madman Across the Water
    Madman Across the Water
    Madman Across the Water is the fourth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1971 through DJM/Uni Records. The title song, "Madman Across the Water", was set to be released on Elton John's previous album Tumbleweed Connection. However, it was set aside and would...
    
    
  • Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
    Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
    Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player is the sixth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John. It was released by DJM Records....
    
    
  • Blue Moves
    Blue Moves
    Blue Moves is the eleventh studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1976. It was also his second double album , and his first album released by his own Rocket Records Ltd...
    
    
  • Made in England
  • Songs from the West Coast
    Songs from the West Coast
    Songs from the West Coast is the twenty-seventh studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released worldwide on 1 October 2001. Many critics have said that this album brought John back to his piano-based musical roots. He once again collaborated with long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin....
    
    

• Alexz Johnson
  Alexz Johnson
  Alexzandra Spencer "Alexz" Johnson is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Her debut album Voodoo was independently released on March 30, 2010....
  
  
  • Weight
  • Voodoo
    Voodoo (Alexz Johnson album)
    Voodoo is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alexz Johnson. The album was released on March 9, 2010 through Orange Lounge Recordings and inDiscover Recordings.-Writing and development:...
    
    

• Mika
  Mika (singer)
  Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit...
  
  
  • Life in Cartoon Motion
    Life in Cartoon Motion
    Life in Cartoon Motion is the debut album by singer Mika, produced by Greg Wells and Mika, mixed by Greg Wells, with co-production on two songs by Jodi Marr and John Merchant, released on Island Records on 5 February 2007 in the United Kingdom, and on Casablanca Records on 27 March 2007 in the U.S....
    
    

• Harry Nilsson
  Harry Nilsson
  Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...
  
  
  • Nilsson Schmilsson
    Nilsson Schmilsson
    -Personnel:* Harry Nilsson – piano on 1 5 8 10, vocals, Mellotrons on 2 4, organ on 3, harmonica on 8, electric piano on 9* Jim Gordon – drums on 1 2 5 8 9, percussion on 7 9* Klaus Voormann – bass on 1 5 6 8, rhythm guitar on 2 9, acoustic guitar on 4...
    
    
  • Son of Schmilsson
    Son of Schmilsson
    Son of Schmilsson is the eighth album by Harry Nilsson. Nilsson was being pressured to produce a follow-up album similar to his 1971 breakthrough, Nilsson Schmilsson, but, instead, he cut a more eccentric album....
    
    

• Amanda Palmer
  Amanda Palmer
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  • Who Killed Amanda Palmer
    Who Killed Amanda Palmer
    Who Killed Amanda Palmer is the first solo album by American musical artist Amanda Palmer.The album was largely recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with collaborator Ben Folds and was released on Roadrunner Records...
    
    

• Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips is a folk-rock musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s.Phillips has recorded twenty albums and worked with musicians including Donovan, Paul Buckmaster, J. Peter Robinson, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bernie Taupin, and many others...
  
  
  • Contribution
  • Collaboration
  • Second Contribution
  • Faces

• Quatermass
  Quatermass (band)
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  • Quatermass
    Quatermass (album)
    Quatermass is an album by British progressive rock band, Quatermass, first released in May 1970. It has been described as "a keyboard dominated chunk of heavy progressive rock.....
    
    

• Rolling Stones
  • Sticky Fingers
    Sticky Fingers
    -Personnel:The Rolling Stones*Mick Jagger – lead vocals, acoustic guitar on "Dead Flowers", electric guitar on "Sway", percussion*Keith Richards – electric guitar, six & twelve string acoustic guitar, backing vocals...
    
    ("Sway
    Sway (The Rolling Stones song)
    "Sway" is a song by the English rock 'n roll band The Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. It was also released as the b-side of the "Wild Horses" single in June 1971. This single was released in the US only...
    
    " and "Moonlight Mile
    Moonlight Mile (Rolling Stones song)
    "Moonlight Mile" is a song from The Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers.Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Moonlight Mile" is widely considered to be one of the Rolling Stones' most underappreciated ballads. Recording began in March 1970 at Stargroves. The song was the product of an...
    
    ")

• Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work...
  
  
  • No Secrets
    No Secrets (Carly Simon album)
    Reviews for No Secrets were mixed. Robert Christgau, writing in Creem, rated the album a B-, which signifies "a competent or mildly interesting record that will usually feature at least three worthwhile cuts." He stated that "if a horse could sing in a monotone, the horse would sound like Carly...
    
    (three tracks)
  • Hotcakes

• Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
  
  
  • Chinese Democracy

• 10,000 Maniacs
  10,000 Maniacs
  10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups.-1981–1993:...
  
  
  • Our Time in Eden
    Our Time in Eden
    Our Time in Eden is a 1992 album by 10,000 Maniacs, the last studio album featuring original lead singer Natalie Merchant. The album featured her future replacement Mary Ramsey on viola on such tracks as "Stockton Gala Days," "Jezebel," and "How You've Grown." Singles from the album were "These Are...
    
    

• Third Ear Band
  Third Ear Band
  Third Ear Band evolved within the London alternative and free-music scene of the mid 1960s.-History:Members came from The Giant Sun Trolley and The People Band to create an improvised music drawing on Eastern raga forms, European folk, experimental and medieval influences...
  
  
  • Music from Macbeth
    Music from Macbeth
    Music from Macbeth is a 1972 album by progressive-rock band Third Ear Band. It consists of the soundtrack from Roman Polanski's 1971 film The Tragedy of Macbeth, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.-Track listing:#"Overture" – 4:20...
    
    

• Train
  Train (band)
  Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1994. The band currently comprises a core trio of Patrick Monahan , Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood ....
  
  
  • Drops of Jupiter
    Drops of Jupiter
    Drops of Jupiter is Train's second album, released in 2001. The album's title is derived from "Drops of Jupiter ", its first single which was extremely popular and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song....
    
    

• Taylor Swift
  Taylor Swift
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  • Speak Now
    Speak Now
    Speak Now is the third studio album by American singer–songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 25, 2010 by Big Machine Records. Production for the album took place during 2008 to 2010 at several recording studios, and was handled by Swift and country music producer Nathan Chapman...
    
    

• Rodney Franklin
  Rodney Franklin
  Rodney Franklin is an American jazz pianist and composer.At the age of six he took jazz piano lessons at Washington Elementary School...
  
  
  • You'll Never Know

• Tears for Fears
  Tears for Fears
  Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...
  
  
  • Secret World
    Secret World (song)
    "Secret World" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. It was only released in France as a promotional single. The single was released to promote the live album Secret World Live in Paris....
    
    

• Brandi Carlile
  Brandi Carlile
  Brandi Carlile is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life:At age eight, Carlile performed a rendition of the country music song "Tennessee Flat Top Box" with her mother. She began to play the guitar and write songs at fifteen. At sixteen, she began to perform as a backup singer for an Elvis...
  
  
  • Give Up the Ghost
    Give Up the Ghost (album)
    Give Up the Ghost is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, released on October 6, 2009, through Columbia Records. The album was produced by Grammy Award winner Rick Rubin and contains a collaboration with Elton John titled "Caroline"...
    
    
  • Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony
    Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony
    Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony is a live album and fourth album overall by the American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, released on May 3, 2011 through Columbia Records...
    
    

External links

• Christian Düblin: Interview with Paul Buckmaster on Xecutives.net