Artist: Buell Niedlinger Niels-Henning

Buell Niedlinger Niels-Henning (March 2, 1936 – March 16, 2018) was an American cellist and double bassist who worked with a variety of pop and jazz performers, prominently with iconoclastic pianist Cecil Taylor in the 1950s and '60s. 

Neidlinger was born in New York City to the former Jane Buell and Roger Nidlinger. He was raised in  Westport, Connecticut, where his father ran a cargo shipping business. He played cello in his youth, and began studying double bass after a music teacher recommended it to strengthen his hands. He took lessons from jazz bassist Walter Page.

Neidlinger dropped out of Yale University after one year, where he had been studying orchestral music. He moved to New York City and began playing in various jazz settings. He joined Cecil Taylor's group in 1955, played with Herbie Nichols and recorded extensively with Taylor's groups with Steve Lacy and with Archie Shepp among others until 1961. He was also involved with new directions in classical music (John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, George Crumb) and Gunther Schuller' s Third Stream music.