# John Lindberg (jazz musician)

John Lindberg (born March 16, 1959) is an American jazz double-bassist.

## Early life

Lindberg was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He began his professional career at the age of 16, eventually moving to New York City in 1977.

## Career

After moving to New York, he played with the Human Arts Ensemble alongside Joseph Bowie and Bobo Shaw. In 1977, with James Emery and Billy Bang, Lindberg co-founded the String Trio of New York. In 1980 he formed a trio with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray. From 1980 to 1983 he lived in Paris, playing there solo and with Murray and John Tchicai. He has recorded extensively as a leader. John Lindberg studied bass with the bassist from the Battle Creek, Michigan symphony orchestra, bassist David Izenzon and jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell.

## Discography
### As leader

* Comin' and Goin (Leo, 1980)
* Unison (Cecma, 1981) with Marty Ehrlich
* Dimension 5 (Black Saint, 1981)
* Team Work (Cecma, 1982) - with Hugh Ragin
* Relative Reliability (West Wind, 1982)
* Give and Take (Black Saint, 1982)
* Haunt of the Unresolved (Nato, 1983)
* The East Side Suite (Sound Aspects. 1983)
* Trilogy of Works for Eleven Instrumentalists (Black Saint, 1984)
* As Tears Go By (ITM, 1987)
* Shoot First (Ear Rational, 1989) with Eric Watson
* Dodging Bullets (Black Saint, 1992)
* Quartet Afterstorm (Black Saint, 1994)
* Resurrection of a Dormant Soul (Black Saint, 1996)
* Luminosity:Homage to David Izenzon (Music & Arts, 1996)
* Bounce (Black Saint, 1998)
* The Catbird Sings (Black Saint, 2000)
* A Tree Frog Tonality (Between the lines, 2000)
* Two by Five (Between the lines, 2002)
* Ruminations Upon Ives and Gottschalk (Between the lines, 2003)
* Winter Birds (Between the lines, 2005)
* Duets 1 (Between the lines, 2006) with Karl Berger
* (A)live at Roulette, NYC (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)
* Born in an Urban Ruin (Clean Feed, 2016) (& BC3)
* Western Edges (Clean Feed, 2016) (wRaptor Trio)
With the String Trio of New York
* First String (Black Saint, 1979)
* Area Code 212 (Black Saint, 1981)
* Common Goal (Black Saint, 1983)
* Rebirth of a Feeling (Black Saint, 1983)
* Natural Balance (Black Saint, 1986)
* Octagon (Black Saint, 1992)
* Blues...? (Black Saint, 1993)
* Frozen Ropes (Barking Hoop, 2005)

### As sideman

With Anthony Braxton
* Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 (hatART, 1978 [1995])
* Performance (Quartet) 1979 (hatART, 1979 [1981])
* Seven Compositions 1978 (Moers Music, 1979)
* Six Duets (1982) (Cecma, 1982)
* Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 (Black Saint, 1983)
* Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 (Black Saint, 1984)
* Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) (Sound Aspects, 1984)
* Orchestra (Paris) 1978 (Braxton Bootleg, 2011)
* Quartet (Wilhelmshaven) 1979 - Part 1 (Braxton Bootleg, 2012)
* Quartet (Wilhelmshaven) 1979 - Part 2 (Braxton Bootleg, 2012)
* Quartet (Mulhouse) 1983 (Braxton Bootleg, 2012)
* Quartet (Sweet Basil) 1985 - 02.11 (Braxton Bootleg, 2013)
* Quartet (Salzburg) 1985 - 05.19 (Braxton Bootleg, 2014)
With Human Arts Ensemble
* Junk Trap (Black Saint, 1978)
* Live! Volume 1 (Circle, 1978)
With Susie Ibarra
* Flower by Flower (Tzadik, 2002)
With Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray
* Jump Up / What to Do About (Hat Hut, 1981)
With Kevin Norton
* Intuitive Structures (Cadence, 2003)
* Time-Space Modulator (Barking Hoop, 2004)
With Wadada Leo Smith
* Lake Biwa (Tzadik, 2004)
* Eclipse (La Huit, 2005)
* Tabligh (Cuneiform, 2008)
* Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform, 2009)
* Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform, 2011)
* Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012)
* Occupy The World (TUM, 2013)
* The Great Lakes Suites (TUM, 2014)
* Celestial Weather (TUM, 2015)
* America's National Parks (Cuneiform, 2016)
* The Chicago Symphonies (TUM, 2021)
With BLOB
* "The Awakening" (2007) (with Ted Orr, Bill Bacon, Don Davis and Karl Berger)
* "Halloween" (Clinical Archives 2008) (with Ted Orr and Harvey Sorgen)
* "Quantum Fugue" (Lindy Editions 2008) (with Ted Orr and Harvey Sorgen)
* "Earphonious Swamphony" (Innova Recordings 2009) (with Ted Orr,Harvey Sorgen, and Ralph Carney)
* "You Can'y Get Ther From There" (Lindy Editions 2009) (with Ted Orr and Harvey Sorgen)
* "A Night At The Opera" (2010) (with Ted Orr, Jake Sorgen, and Harvey Sorgen)
* "Metalshop" (2010) (with Ted Orr and Harvey Sorgen)
* "BLOB Goes To Mars" (2011) (with Ted Orr, Harvey Sorgen, Don Davis, and Mars Williams)
* Third Ear" (2011) (with Ted Orr, Harvey Sorgen, and Curtis Bahn)
* "Summer Shorts" (2012) (with Ted Orr and Harvey Sorgen)