Jane Getz

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Jane Getz (b. January 1, 1948) is an American jazz pianist and session musician. Getz is no relation to jazz musician Stan Getz.

Getz learned classical piano as a child and began playing jazz at nine. She lived in California early in life but dropped out of high school when she was fifteen and moved to New York City. There she immediately found work playing with Pony Poindexter, and later performed with Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, Roland Kirk, Jay Clayton, Charles Lloyd, and Pharoah Sanders.

In the early 1970s Getz returned to Los Angeles and found work as a studio musician. She recorded country music for RCA Records under the name Mother Hen, and appeared on albums by The Bee Gees, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Rick Roberts, and John Lennon, among others. She went into semi-retirement from jazz at this period, but began playing jazz again in the 1990s; she was with Dave Fielder's quartet in Los Angeles from 1995. Her first jazz record as a leader, No Relation, appeared in 1996.