Jane Bunnett

Jane Bunnett ( born 1955 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian jazz musician ( flute, soprano saxophone).

Bunnett first learned classical piano and then moved due to a tendonitis to Böhm flute, to then also the soprano saxophone came on which they perfected at Steve Lacy. Together with her husband, trumpeter Larry Cramer, she lived several years in Paris, where she appeared with Claudine François. In 1989, she played with Don Pullen is a successful Duoplatte. Cramer, Pullen, Jeanne Lee and Sheila Jordan are involved in their album The Water is Wide.

Increasingly, they worked intensively with music from Cuba, initially due to their vacations on the island. In particular, on the plate Spirits of Havana ( 1991), she sits down with different African-American traditions and their current representatives apart intense and believable.

Since 2001 their productions have been proposed regularly for Grammy and Juno Award. Bunnett was awarded the 2004 Order of Canada. In 2006 she received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University ( Kingston).

In 2004 she won the Rising Star category in the Downbeat Kritikerpoll for flute.

Discography

• Jane Bunnett / Don Pullen - New York Duets, 1989.
• Jane Bunnett - Spirits of Havana, 1991.
• Jane Bunnett - The Water is Wide, 1993.
• Paul Bley / Jane Bunnett - Double Time, 1994.
• Jane Bunnett Rendez-Vous Brazil Cuba, 1995.
• Jane Bunnett and The Cuban Piano Masters, 1996.
• Havana Flute Summit, 1998.
• Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana - Chamalongo, 1998.
• Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana - Ritmo Soul, 2000.
• Jane Bunnett - Alma de Santiago, 2001.
• Spirituals and Dedications, 2002.
• Jane Bunnett - Cuban Odyssey, 2002.
• Jane Bunnett - Red Dragonfly (AKA Tombo ), 2004.
• Jane Bunnet - Radio Guantanamo ( Guantanamo Blues Project Vol 1) 2006 - Winner of the Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year.
• Jane Bunnett and Hilario Duran - Cuban Rhapsody, 2011