Sharon Freeman

Sharon Freeman

Sharon Freeman is a jazz pianist and french hornist. She also writes musical arrangements.

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. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E7DF1538F930A15751C1A965948260 New York Times] ] . Since 1982 she is a member of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, of which she is the current Musical Director. She recently can be heard on the LMO's anti-Iraq-war jazz album "Not In Our Name." [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/12/01/derk.DTL SFGate.com] ] Freeman has also worked and recorded with further jazz greats such as Frank Foster, Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, Richard Muhal Abrams, David Murray, and Lionel Hampton. She has also been 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 Thelonius Monk”. She has been commissioned by the Jazz Composers’ 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.

Literature

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

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