Sharon Freeman

Ahnee Sharon Freeman is a jazz pianist, French horn player and arranger.

Sharon Freeman
Background information
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Instrumentalist, arranger
Instrument(s)Piano, French Horn

Freeman played French horn for the jazz opera Escalator over the Hill, Gil Evans's 1973 album Svengali, and in 1983 she worked on a piece of jazz Christmas music.[1] In 1982 she joined Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and recorded three albums with the group between 1982 and 2004.[2] Freeman has also worked and recorded with Frank Foster, Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, Muhal Richard Abrams, David Murray, and Lionel Hampton, and served as musical director for Don Pullen and for Beaver Harris' 360 Musical Experience.

Freeman was nominated for a Grammy for her arrangement of "Monk's Mood" for five French horns and rhythm section for Hal Willner's album, That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk. She has been commissioned by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Harlem Piano Trio. She has been cited by Jazz Times as the top-rated established jazz French horn player.

Discography

With Carla Bley

With Gil Evans

With George Gruntz

With Charlie Haden

With Leroy Jenkins

With Warren Smith

  • Composers Workshop Ensemble (Claves, 1968–82)[7]

With Charles Sullivan

References
  1. New York Times
  2. "Jazz Liberation / Charlie Haden gets the political band Liberation Music Orchestra back together". December 2005.
  3. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 136.
  4. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 462.
  5. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 623.
  6. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 625.
  7. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 1318.
Bibliography

Further reading
  • Leslie Gourse, Madame Jazz. Oxford University Press. New York 1995. ISBN 0-19-508696-1


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