Saxophonist /flutist Jean Fineberg has more than 50 albums to her credit. She has toured and recorded with David Bowie, Laura Nyro, Chic, Sister Sledge (recording “We Are Family”), Luther Vandross, Phoebe Snow, Bo Diddley, Patti LaBelle, The Four Tops, Cornell Dupree, Martha Reeves and Isis. Her performances include the Montreux and Pori Jazz Festivals with Melba Liston, and Carnegie Hall with Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry.

She co-leads the electric soul-jazz band DEUCE, featuring her compositions, and has appeared at the NYC Kool Jazz and Monterey Jazz Festivals. She is asst. director of the Montclair Women’s Big Band, to which she contributes original charts. Her latest project is SAXOPHUNK, a high-energy instrumental blues/R&B quartet.

Jean has received three ASCAP Composition Awards, an NEA Jazz fellowship, and Meet the Composer grants. She is profiled in The Saxophone Journal (cover story), Stormy Weather, American Women in Jazz, Madame Jazz, The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul (cover), For The Record, and Eden Built By Eves.

She holds a Master’s degree from Penn State University and studied jazz with David Baker at Indiana University. Jean is currently a faculty member at the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA. and a panelist for the San Francisco Arts Council.