Mary Greasy

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Mary M. Fettig (born June 1, 1953 in San Francisco ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , flute ) and music teacher .

Live and act

Fettig grew up in the San Francisco suburb of Concord and first learned marimba as a child . She then played the saxophone, flute and clarinet in the school band of Ygnacio Valley High School, with which she performed at the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival and won the high school competition . Bandleader Bill Burke, a Stan Kenton fan, found her a scholarship at Stan Kenton Camp in Redlands . After studying at UCLA , at the age of twenty, she was the first female soloist to play alto saxophone in the Kenton Orchestra in 1973, heard on their albums 7.5 on the Richter Scale and Street of Dreams .

In the following years she worked with Marian McPartland ( At the Festival , 1979), Airto Moreira and Flora Purim ( The Magicians , 1986), Joe Henderson , Nnenna Freelon and Toninho Horta . In 1985 she presented the Concord album In Good Company , which featured McPartland, Peter Sprague , Ray Brown and Jeff Hamilton . Fettig has also played on recordings with Charles Brown , the Ray Brown Big Band, Dave Eshelman , Tito Puente and Marcos Silva , with the San Francisco Symphony and in theater orchestras in musicals of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miz . Fettig has also appeared on various film and computer game soundtracks, such as Walker (1987) , Mars Attacks! (1996) and SimCity 3000 (1999). She teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and lives in the Bay Area .

Discographic notes

  • 2004 - Relativity (Lau Lau)
  • 2008 - Brazilian Footprints (F Major)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Portrait at Lafayette Jazz
  2. ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 or Bielefeld catalog Jazz 1985 and 1988
  3. ↑ Mars Attacks (Soundtrack; Discogs)
personal data
SURNAME Greasy, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fettig, Mary M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco