Jane Getz is an American jazz

Jazz

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 pianist and session musician

Session musician

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Getz learned classical piano as a child and began playing jazz at the age of nine. She lived in California

California

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 early in life but when she was sixteen moved to New York City

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. There she immediately found work playing with Pony Poindexter

Pony Poindexter

Norwood "Pony" Poindexter was an American jazz saxophonist.Poindexter began on clarinet and switched to playing alto and tenor sax growing up. In 1940 he studied under Sidney Desvigne, and following this attended Candell Conservatory in Oakland, where he based himself...

 and later performed with Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

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, Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

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, Stan Getz

Stan Getz

Stanley Getz was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott...

, Roland Kirk, Jay Clayton

Jay Clayton

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, Charles Lloyd, and Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders

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In the early 1970s Getz returned to Los Angeles

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 and found work as a studio musician. She recorded country music for RCA Records

RCA Records

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 under the name Mother Hen, and appeared on albums by The Bee Gees, Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

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, Harry Nilsson

Harry Nilsson

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, Rick Roberts

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, and John Lennon

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, among others. During this period, Getz wrote the title track for the 1973 Jimmie Spheeris

Jimmie Spheeris

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 album The Original Tap Dancing Kid.

Getz went into semi-retirement from jazz at this period, but began playing jazz again in the 1990s. She was with Dale Fielder's quartet in Los Angeles from 1995. Her first jazz record as a leader, No Relation, appeared in 1996.

Discography

- featured-

Mother Hen

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

Jane Getz

• No Relation (1996)

- as a sideman-

• Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw (Atlantic SD 8259)(1970)

• • Jane Getz (p) Bruce Johnson, Hugh McCracken, Eric Weissberg (g) Ron Carter (b) Ray Lucas (d) Buck Clarke (per) Gene McDaniels (vo) Bill Fischer (arr)

Regent Sound Studios, NYC, February 9,10,11,12, 1970

• 18556 Silent Majority Atlantic SD 8259
• 18557 Compared To What unissued
• 18558 Reverend Lee Atlantic SD 8259
• 18559 Sagittarius Red -
• 18560 Compared To What unissued
• 18561 Welfare City Atlantic SD 8259
• 18562 Love Letter To America -
• 18563 Cherrystones Atlantic SD 8259
• 18564 Outlaw -
  • Jane Getz (p) Bruce Johnson, Hugh McCracken, Eric Weissberg (g) Ron Carter (b) Ray Lucas (d) Buck Clarke (per) Gene McDaniels (vo) Bill Fischer (arr)

Regent Sound Studios, NYC, February 13, 1970

• 18565 Black Boy Atlantic SD 8259
• 18566 Unspoken Dreams Of Light -

With Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

• Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop
  Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop
  -Track listing:# "New Fables" - 23:18# "Meditation " - 23:44*Recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, California on June 2 & 3, 1964-Personnel:*Charles Mingus - bass*John Handy - alto saxophone...
  
  (Fantasy, 1964)

Pharoah Sanders Quintet
Jane Getz, Marvin Pattillo, Pharoah Sanders, Stan Foster, William Bennett

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

• Life In A Tin Can (LP, Rei) BeeGees RSO Records, Inc.
• Pharoah's First (CD, Album) Pharoh Sanders ESP Disk (Germany)
• Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop (LP) Mingus Debut Records 1964
• Pharoah Sanders Quintet (LP, Album) ESP Disk 1965
• Pussy Cats (LP, Gat) Nilsson RCA 1974
• Duit On Mon Dei (LP, Album) Nilsson RCA Victor 1975
• Sandman (LP) Nilsson RCA Victor 1976
• Bee Gees (17-LP-Box) (Box + 17xLP)
• Come Home Johnny Bride RSO Records, Inc. 1983
• Life In A Tin Can (CD, Album, RE) BeeGees Polydor 1987
• Pharoah's First (LP, Album, RE) Get Back 1998
• Pharoah's First (CD, Album, RE, RM) ESP Disk 2005