Jane Getz

Jane Getz (born January 1, 1948 ) is an American jazz pianist and studio musician .

Live and act

Getz, who grew up in Los Angeles and San Francisco , was considered a musical prodigy and switched from classical to jazz at the age of nine . She dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and moved to New York City , where she was soon playing with Pony Poindexter . During the next few years she worked with numerous jazz stars, in particular with Charles Mingus , Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders , but also gigged with Stan Getz (to whom she is not related) or Jay Clayton . She was involved in Pharoah Sander's first record as well as Mingus' album Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop .

In 1971 she turned her back on the jazz scene and moved back to California to work as a studio musician. She recorded country music under the stage name Mother Hen , but can also be heard on many pop and rock albums (for example with the Bee Gees , Ringo Starr , Harry Nilsson and John Lennon ). In the 1990s she turned back to jazz. She has played in Dale Fielder's quartet since 1995 , but also works with her own trio in the jazz clubs of Los Angeles. In 1996 she recorded her first jazz album No Relation (Clarion Jazz) under her own name, after she had already released albums in the field of pop and country music with Mother Hen in 1971 and with No Ordinary Child in 1972 . In 2014 she published her autobiography entitled Running With the Big Dogs .

Choice discography

• Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah´s First ( ESP , 1964, with Stan Foster, William Bennett, Marvin Patillo)
• Charles Mingus: Right Now (OJC, 1964)
• No Relation (1996)
• Dave Pike : Bophead (Ubiquity, 1998)
• A Dot on the Map (2014, with Pat Senatore , Kendall Kay et al.)

as Mother Hen

• Mother Hen (1971)
• No Ordinary Child (1972)

Web links

• Jane Getz at Allmusic (English)
• Interview (2014)
• Jane Getz at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on "No Relation"