Sharon Freeman

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Sharon Freeman
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Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)Instrumentalist, arranger
Instrument(s) Piano, French Horn

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

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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.

Although more documented as a horn player, in 1988 Freeman was a guest as a pianist on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program on National Public Radio. [3]

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

With Charles Sullivan

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References

  1. New York Times
  2. "Jazz Liberation / Charlie Haden gets the political band Liberation Music Orchestra back together". December 2005.
  3. "Sharon Freeman On Piano Jazz". NPR . Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  4. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 136.
  5. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 462.
  6. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 623.
  7. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 625.
  8. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 1318.
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