Jane Getz (born 12 September 1942) is an American jazz pianist and session musician.
She learned classical piano as a child and began playing jazz at the age of nine. She lived in California early in life but when she was sixteen moved to New York City. She found work with Pony Poindexter and later performed with Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, Roland Kirk, Jay Clayton, Charles Lloyd, and Pharoah Sanders.
In the early 1970s, Getz returned to Los Angeles and became a studio musician. She recorded country music for RCA under the name "Mother Hen" and appeared on albums by The Bee Gees, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Rick Roberts, and John Lennon. She wrote the title track for the 1973 Jimmie Spheeris album The Original Tap Dancing Kid.
Getz went into semi-retirement but began playing jazz again in the 1990s. She was a member of Dale Fielder's quartet in Los Angeles in 1995. Her first jazz album as a leader, No Relation, was released in 1996.
Discography
As leader
Mother Hen (1971) No Ordinary Child (1972) Survival Of The Hippest/Stopping Traffic 45rpm (1986) No Relation (1996) A Dot On The Map (2014) Go Back to Your Wife (2018)
As sidewoman
With Harry Nilsson
1974 Pussy Cats
1975 Duit on Mon Dei
1976 ...That's the Way It Is
With Jimmie Spheeris
1973 The Original Tap Dancing Kid
1975 The Dragon Is Dancing
With Ringo Starr
1976 Ringo's Rotogravure
1981 Stop and Smell the Roses
With others
1964 Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop, Charles Mingus (Fantasy) 1965 Pharoah's First, Pharoah Sanders 1967 Musart, George Braith 1970 Outlaw, Eugene McDaniels (Gene McDaniels) 1972 Windmills, Rick Roberts 1973 Life in a Tin Can, Bee Gees 1976 Motion, Geoff Muldaur 1998 Bop Head, Dave Pike 2008 Introducing J'Ai Michel, Sweet Baby J'ai