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Jane Getter

Jane Getter has played with many jazz and rock greats while garnering increasing recognition as a bandleader and gifted writer and instrumentalist. Early in her career she toured with legendary jazz/blues organist Brother Jack McDuff, which provided invaluable training ground. Her composing talents received attention when she won the ASCAP Gershwin Award for Music for Dance or Theatre in the mid 90’s. At this time, she also recorded and toured with Michal Urbaniak’s band Urbanator, featuring Kenny Garrett, Lenny White and Tom Browne. Getter then teamed up with writing partner Lenny White (the legendary drummer from Return To Forever), and co-wrote Urbanator’s smooth jazz hit “Hopscotch”, along with other compositions featured on White’s “Present Tense” and “Acoustic Masters” CD’s. She then received widespread exposure playing in the Saturday Night Live Band.

Her debut CD “Jane” received worldwide critical acclaim. “See Jane Run”, her 2nd CD was released in 2006 on Alternity Records, (at the time the home of Allan Holdsworth). This CD is a powerful statement, containing the classic jazz/rock anthem “the Loop”. She next recorded “Secret Code” a special guitar duet project with guitarist Bruce Arnold and was released in 2009 on Muse Eek. Her latest progressive jazz/rock release “three” was released in 2012 on Alternity Records and features a stellar crew of NY’s finest – Adam Holzman (Miles Davis keyboardist and currently keyboardist in Steven Wilson’s Band (from Porcupine Tree), James Genus (Saturday Night Live bass player) and Anton Fig (drummer in David Letterman’s CBS Orchestra).

Jane has just completed her exciting new album “On” featuring Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson), Bryan Beller (Joe Satriiani, Aristocrats) Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa, Alan Holdsworth) and special guests Corey Glover (Living Colour), Alex Skolnick (Testament) and Theo Travis (Steven Wilson, Robert Fripp).

The album will be released on Snapper Music in 2015.

Jane has appeared in Guitar Player Magazine regularly, most recently in a special feature interview in the February 2013 issue. She has also written instructional articles for Guitar Player’s “Sessions” section.

Other great artists Jane has recorded or performed with include Ursala Dudziak, The Roots The Jam, Jaimoe (Alllman Brother’s drummer), Kenny Garrett, legendary Headhunters drummer Mike Clark, Regina Carter Michal Urbaniak and many more. Her band has played and toured internationally in festivals and venues worldwide, including Warsaw’s Guitar City, Austria’s Outreach Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, NYC”s BB Kings, The Blue Note, India’s B Flat Bar and many more. Look for the Jane Getter Premonition on tour in 2015!

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Album Review

Rob Susman: Top Secret Lab

Read "Top Secret Lab" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Trombonist Rob Susman, who is inclined to dwell on the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, remains “out there" for the most part on Top Secret Lab, an album wherein his splendid nonet is challenged by half a dozen of Susman's intricate compositions (and two others) and aces every test without any detectable missteps or errant notes. The question is whether Susman's blend of old-school funk with more modern design might whet a listener's appetite. And the answer ...

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The Jane Getter Premonition at Iridium

Read "The Jane Getter Premonition at Iridium" reviewed by Roger Weisman


The Jane Getter Premonition Iridium New York, NY April 17, 2018 The Jane Getter Premonition's set at Iridium showcased the guitarist/composer's continuing explorations in the area of progressive rock with a set of music that was inventive, volatile, and expertly played. Primarily featuring material from her most recent studio album, On, Getter's band consisted of some of the finest musicians working in the jazz-fusion, funk, and progressive rocks genres, including guitarist Alex Skolnick (Testament), bassist ...

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Jane Getter Premonition: ON Tour

Read "ON Tour" reviewed by John Kelman


With the release of ON (Madfish/Snapper, 2015)--the debut album with her newly minted Premonition band--guitarist Jane Getter completed her move from the funk/fusion guitar workouts of her first two albums (1997's Jane and 2005's See Jane Run) towards a more progressive leaning which began with Three (Alternity, 2012). It's a move that the New York-based Getter has managed with considerable success--no doubt, to some extent, the result of her husband and only constant across all of her solo recordings, keyboardist ...

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Extended Analysis

ON

Read "ON" reviewed by John Kelman


While it's true that, in the rock world, there are relatively few female guitarists, especially those leaning towards the heavier and more progressive side of the equation, that doesn't mean that those intrepid enough to enter what has traditionally been a man's world should be assessed on anything but their own merits. Good guitarists are good guitarists, regardless of gender; great guitarist, too, are great guitarists, irrespective of their hormonal dispositions. Guitar Player Magazine may have rightfully deemed Jane Getter ...

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Album Review

Jane Getter: Jane

Read "Jane" reviewed by John W. Patterson


Getter's phenomenal solo debut pulls up the deep roots of jazz and jazz fusion, shakes off the dust and dirt, to mine and shine the gold within. From her fingertips sails majesty our way as Hendrix's “golden-winged ship" of inner vision. She adds the fresh soil and liquid pleasure of her own stylings and re-plants a new tree of earthly fused jazz delights for all to feast upon.I will unequivocally assert that this has got to be one ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Top Secret Lab

Self Produced
2024

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ON Tour

Big Fun Productions
2017

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ON

Madfish Music
2016

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Three

EmArcy
2011

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Jane

EmArcy
1998

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