Janette Mason

{{Short description|British jazz pianist, arranger, composer and record producer}}

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Janette Mason is a British jazz pianist, arranger, composer and record producer. Three of her albums have received four-starred reviews in The Guardian{{Cite news |last=Fordham, John |author-link=John Fordham (jazz critic) |date=13 May 2005 |title=Janette Mason, Din and Tonic |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/13/jazz.shopping |accessdate=7 August 2016}}{{Cite news |last=Fordham, John |author-link=John Fordham (jazz critic) |date=23 January 2009 |title=Janette Mason: Alien Left Hand |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/23/janette-mason-alien-left-hand |accessdate=7 August 2016}}{{Cite news |last=Fordham, John |author-link=John Fordham (jazz critic) |date=31 July 2014 |title=Janette Mason: D'Ranged review – classic R&B and soul with a jazz twist |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/31/janette-mason-dranged-review |accessdate=7 August 2016}} and her second album, Alien Left Hand, was nominated for the Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2010.{{Cite news |last=Collins, Mike |date=20 June 2014 |title=CD Review: Janette Mason — D'Ranged |work=London Jazz News |url=http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/06/cd-review-janette-mason-dranged.html |accessdate=7 August 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023737/http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/06/cd-review-janette-mason-dranged.html |url-status=dead }} The film scores she has written include the British dramas Ruby Blue (2008) and The Calling (2009).

Mason toured In the 1990s with such artists as Oasis, K.d. lang and Seal. She has also worked as Musical Director for Antoine de Caunes and Jonathan Ross and has toured in the United States, Europe, Israel, Japan and Thailand. She has also played at the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, Provincetown Jazz Festival, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.janettemason.com/about-janette-mason|title=About Janette Mason |website=www.janettemason.com |access-date=18 April 2021}} She has performed the music of Robert Wyatt and also toured and collaborated with him.{{Cite web|url=http://www.janettemason.com/soup-songs-the-music-of-robert-wyatt|title=Soup Songs – The Music of Robert Wyatt |website=www.janettemason.com |access-date=18 April 2021}}