A Legend of Music

The Kathy Lee Parker Show

PRODUCER, SONGWRITER, and PIANIST, JANE GETZ has been a celebrity in the world of rock and country and she's done it all. "Now producing is what it's all about too." As a musician, she recorded country rock music in the early '70s on two RCA Records albums as Mother Hen in one of the largest deals of its kind to that time (and with publishing by Nashville's April-Blackwood Music) and was featured in BILLBOARD and ROLLING STONE. Jane has recorded as a duo with bluegrass fiddler Richard Green and played on country albums by Sneaky Pete, the steel guitarist from the Flying Burrito Brothers produced by David Anderle, and country-flavored albums by BOBBY WOMACK, Jeff Muldaur, and DON HENLEY. She has had an alternate career as a jazz musician. She was a classical piano child prodigy at age six, but she switched from classical music to jazz when she was about nine. By the time she was 12, her mother was taking her around Los Angeles to sit in with such jazz musicians as drummer Billy Higgins and saxophonist Norwood "Pony" Poindexter, and singer-songwriter Gene McDaniels (of "A Hundred Pounds of Clay" fame). At the age of 16, Jane went to New York. During her eight years there, she worked with a who's who of jazz, most notably with CHARLES MINGUS, STAN GETZ (no relation), HERBIE MANN, Thad Jones, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Lloyd, Freddie Hubbard, Grant Green, Joe Williams, and Pharaoh Sanders (with whom she recorded for ESP).