Jean Fineberg

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Jean "Jeanie" Fineberg (* 1946 ) is an American saxophonist , flautist and drummer who has made a name for herself in both rock and jazz .

Live and act

Fineberg wanted to play the clarinet as a girl , but her mother advised her not to do so in order not to endanger the position of the teeth. She first learned the flute and later also the alto saxophone . Fineberg was a member of the rock band Godmother in 1971 . From 1972 to 1976 she was part of the fusion jazz band Isis , with whom she recorded two albums. She also worked with Deadly Nightshade , Laura Nyro , David Bowie , Sister Sledge ( We Are Family ), Bo Diddley and Melba Liston , with whom she also played at European festivals in 1980. She also completed an instrumental course at Indiana University . In 1981 it was presented at the Kool Jazz Festival .

Together with Ellen Seeling , she founded the fusion band Deuce in 1980 , which moved to San Francisco in 1989 . She also plays with James Moseley. She has also been a member of the Montclair Women's Big Band since 1998 and supports Seeling in its management. Between 1986 and 2005 she was involved in 13 recording sessions in the field of jazz.

She has received multiple composition grants from Meet the Composer , National Endowment for the Arts, and ASCAP .

Lexical entries

  • Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists Oxford University Press, New York 1995
  • Barbara J. Love (Ed.) Feminists who Changed America, 1963-1975 University of Illinois Press, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Linda Dahl Stormy Weather. The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen Quartet Books, London 1984, p. 174
  2. ↑ Linda Dahl Stormy Weather. P. 222
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, December 25, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Fineberg, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fineberg, Jeanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1946