Janette Mason is a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and performer with a diverse musical career. She toured extensively throughout the 90s with artists such as Oasis, Pulp and Robert Wyatt and was musical director for Jonathan Ross and Antoine De Caunnes. She has proven to be a consummate musician and a standout talent in Jazz, Pop, Indie, Rock and World Music. Her compositions can be heard on numerous TV programmes and on film including scores for Ruby Blue (MEDB Films) starring Bob Hoskins and The Calling (MEDB Films) starring Brenda Blethyn and Susannah York as well as the acclaimed Documentary Film Paris Was A Woman by Greta Schiller. Janette has been a mainstay on the British jazz scene for over twenty years. Alongside her successful performing career Janette is a recording artist in her own right. Her debut trio CD Din and Tonic was shortlisted by the Guardian jazz critic John Fordham as a contender for Jazz Album of the Year, followed by her 2009 release, Alien Left Hand, which garnered a Parliamentary Jazz nomination. She is a sought after arranger and producer and has contributed tracks to Ian Shaw’s Drawn To All Things, and Lea DeLaria’s, The Live Smoke Sessions, which reached the Grammy Ballot. Janette is currently Artist In Residence at The Exchange Twickenham and arranging and producing Lea DeLaria’s next CD.
