JANETTE MASON GROUP - listen to "Alien Left Hand"
Album Tracks

On this recording she draws together an exciting array of musicians to perform her original compositions. All files are MP3 and are approximately 1.8Mb

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John Fordham Guardian Review 23/01/09

Janette Mason is a session, studio and movie-score pianist, and one of the best. But she's also a jazz musician in every fibre, just like her close associate, the Anglophile American singer Lea Delaria. Mason came out of the session shadows in 2005 with her fine Din and Tonic album, and Alien Left Hand develops that set's cross-genre vision, infectious grooving, clever composing and audacious improvisation. Her powerful band includes saxophonist Julian Siegel and trumpeter Tom Arthurs, with Delaria on occasional vocals. On opener Four Wheel Drive, Mason's baroque piano line becomes increasingly funky against Josh Giunta's drumming, while The Blues Walked Out mixes assymmetrical rhythms, acoustic and organ sounds, and then driving, straightahead swing. A thrillingly arranged account of Eurhythmics' Sweet Dreams, two diaphanous ballads (Mae's Song, for Mason's late mother, and a Jarrettish approach to Leonard Bernstein's Some Other Time), some flying bebop (NY Cab Ride) and an equally breathless title track, over a racing left-hand ostinato, confirm the impression that the gifted Mason has done it again.

4 Wheel Drive - Listen to MP3

Sweet Dreams - Listen to MP3

Alien Left Hand - Listen to MP3


Album Line up
Janette Mason Piano/Hammond
Dudley Phillips Acoustic Bass
Lea DeLaria
Josh Giunta Drums
Julian Siegel Sax
Tom Arthurs Trumpet
Martin Shaw Trumpet
Tracy Holloway Trombone