JANELLE REICHMAN
Saxophone

Manhattan School of Music; University of Cincinnati; Downbeat Award Winner

Emmy and Grammy award winning composer Patrick Williams calls Janelle Reichman “a consummate musician with maturity to her playing that is way beyond her years. I cannot recommend her highly enough.” Alan Pasqua, pianist for The Temptations, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin says of Janelle: "She is a fresh new voice in a music that is sometimes full of clichés.”

Janelle Reichman, saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, composer, and educator, has performed with big names such as Doc Severinsen, Anne Hampton Callaway, Sherrie Maricle and DIVA, Dave Liebman, and many others.

Janelle first discovered her love of music when she picked up the clarinet in fifth grade, and would go on to become a multi-instrumentalist. As a teenager, Janelle was a member of bands that opened for Nicholas Payton's ensemble and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Sextet, as well as attended numerous festivals around the country, including the Detroit International Jazz Festival, where Janelle was named Best High School Saxophonist. At age 17, she was accepted into Dave Liebman's International Saxophone Masterclass, a weeklong intensive workshop located in Liebman's hometown of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Janelle’s beautiful tone, creative melodic ideas and cunning ability to craft her solos beginning with a simple motive, landed her a spot in the IAJE (International Association for Jazz Education) Sisters-in-Jazz Quintet, which opened for Nicholas Payton at the 2004 IAJE Conference in New York, and had performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as part of the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. Janelle was also accepted into the full-scholarship Henry Mancini Institute two years running, where she performed with Maria Schneider, Christian McBride, Ray Buretto, Chris Potter, and Vince Mendoza.

Janelle has performed all over the country with great musicians such as Doc Severinsen and his Tonight Show Band, Tim Ries, and Bob Mintzer. Janelle's quartet has played club dates all over the Midwest, including The Jazz Factory in Louisville, Kentucky, The Firefly Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and The Blue Wisp in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2005 Janelle won a Downbeat award, and in 2006 Janelle performed with Ann Hampton Callaway as a featured soloist with DIVA Jazz Orchestra at the Toronto Jazz Festival.

Janelle has studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she performed with Ahmad Jamal, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Wheeler, Joshua Redman, and Mulgrew Miller, among others. She is currently earning a Masters degree at The Manhattan School of Music, where she has studied with Dick Oatts and Bob Mintzer.