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Janette Mason is a British jazz pianist, arranger, composer and record producer. Three of her albums have received four-starred reviews in ''
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'' and her second album, ''Alien Left Hand'', was nominated for the
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in 2010. The film scores she has written include the British dramas ''
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'' (2008) and '' The Calling'' (2009). Mason toured In the 1990s with such artists as
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and
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. She has also worked as Musical Director for
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and
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and has toured in the United States, Europe, Israel, Japan and Thailand. She has also played at the
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, and at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, Provincetown Jazz Festival, and the
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. She has performed the music of
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and also toured and collaborated with him.


Early life and education

Mason was born in
Bushey, Hertfordshire Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It had a population of 25,328 in the 2011 census, rising to 28,416 in the 2021 census, an increase of 12.19%. This makes Bushey the second most populated town ...
and grew up in
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in a musical household: her mother, who performed in the Gracie Cole Big Band, played jazz organ and
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. She studied at the
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and has a degree in musical composition for film and television.


Discography


Albums


Singles


Publications

* (with
Steve Lodder Steve Lodder, born Stephen John Lodder (born 10 April 1951, St. Helier, Jersey), is a British keyboardist, composer, and organist. He played piano as a child and took up organ at age 14. He studied organ at Gonville and Caius College, and after ...
) (2008) ''Totally Interactive Keyboard Bible'', Jawbone. .


References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mason, Janette Living people 20th-century births 21st-century English composers 21st-century jazz composers 21st-century British pianists 21st-century British women composers British jazz keyboardists British women keyboardists English jazz pianists British women jazz pianists British women record producers English film score composers English jazz composers English record producers British women film score composers Musicians from Hertfordshire Entertainers from Bushey People from Wembley Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British women pianists Musicians from the London Borough of Brent British women jazz musicians