Wednesday, 3/21/2025, 9am - A Morning Cup of Jazz with Jayn Pettingill - Women's History Month Special

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Jean Fineberg is a saxophonist, flutist and composer with an M.Ed. from Penn State University, and post-graduate study at Indiana University. She has toured and/or recorded with Melba Liston, Cornell Dupree, The Larry Elgart Band, David Bowie, Chic ("Freak Out"), Sister Sledge ("We Are Family"), Laura Nyro, the Montclair Women’s Big band and her own octet, JAZZphoria. Her compositions are included in Terri Lyne Carrington's “New Standards” and have been performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center and the Grammys. Jean is profiled in numerous books, including "Feminists Who Changed America” and “Saxophone Journal”. She has served as composer-in-residence at nine U.S. art centers, and has received grants from Chamber Music America, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, Intermusic SF, the NEA, ASCAP and Meet the Composer.