# Sharon Freeman

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**Ahnee Sharon Freeman** is a [jazz](/source/Jazz) pianist, [French horn](/source/French_horn) player and arranger.

Freeman played French horn for the jazz opera *[Escalator over the Hill](/source/Escalator_over_the_Hill)*, [Gil Evans](/source/Gil_Evans)'s 1973 album *[Svengali](/source/Svengali_(Gil_Evans_album))*, and in 1983 she worked on a piece of jazz Christmas music.[1] In 1982 she joined [Charlie Haden](/source/Charlie_Haden)'s [Liberation Music Orchestra](/source/Liberation_Music_Orchestra) and recorded three albums with the group between 1982 and 2004.[2] Freeman has also worked and recorded with [Frank Foster](/source/Frank_Foster_(jazz_musician)), [Charles Mingus](/source/Charles_Mingus), [Don Cherry](/source/Don_Cherry_(jazz)), [Muhal Richard Abrams](/source/Muhal_Richard_Abrams), [David Murray](/source/David_Murray_(saxophonist)), and [Lionel Hampton](/source/Lionel_Hampton), and served as musical director for [Don Pullen](/source/Don_Pullen) and for [Beaver Harris](/source/Beaver_Harris)' *360 Musical Experience*.

Although more documented as a horn player, in 1988 Freeman was a guest as a pianist on [Marian McPartland's](/source/Marian_McPartland) *[Piano Jazz](/source/Piano_Jazz)* radio program on [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio).[3]

Freeman was nominated for a [Grammy](/source/Grammy) for her arrangement of "Monk's Mood" for five French horns and rhythm section for [Hal Willner](/source/Hal_Willner)'s album, *That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk*. She has been commissioned by the [Jazz Composer's Orchestra](/source/Jazz_Composer's_Orchestra), the [Brooklyn Philharmonic](/source/Brooklyn_Philharmonic), and the *Harlem Piano Trio*. She has been cited by *Jazz Times* as the top-rated established jazz French horn player.

## Discography

**With [Carla Bley](/source/Carla_Bley)**

- *[Escalator over the Hill](/source/Escalator_over_the_Hill)* (JCOA, 1968–71)[4]

**With [Gil Evans](/source/Gil_Evans)**

- *[Svengali](/source/Svengali_(Gil_Evans_album))* (Atlantic, 1973)[5]

**With [George Gruntz](/source/George_Gruntz)**

- *[First Prize](/source/First_Prize_(album))* (Enja, 1989)

**With [Charlie Haden](/source/Charlie_Haden)**

- *[The Ballad of the Fallen](/source/The_Ballad_of_the_Fallen)* (ECM, 1982)[6]
- *[The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra](/source/The_Montreal_Tapes:_Liberation_Music_Orchestra)* (Verve, 1989 [1999])
- *[Not in Our Name](/source/Not_in_Our_Name_(album))* (Verve, 2004)[7]

**With [Leroy Jenkins](/source/Leroy_Jenkins_(jazz_musician))**

- *[For Players Only](/source/For_Players_Only)* (JCOA Records, 1975)

**With [Warren Smith](/source/Warren_Smith_(jazz_percussionist))**

- *Composers Workshop Ensemble* (Claves, 1968–82)[8]

**With [Charles Sullivan](/source/Charles_Sullivan_(musician))**

- *[Genesis](/source/Genesis_(Charles_Sullivan_album))* (Strata-East, 1974)

## References

1. [New York Times](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E7DF1538F930A15751C1A965948260)

1. ["Jazz Liberation / Charlie Haden gets the political band Liberation Music Orchestra back together"](https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Jazz-Liberation-Charlie-Haden-gets-the-2592136.php). December 2005.

1. ["Sharon Freeman On Piano Jazz"](https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/405177287/sharon-freeman-on-piano-jazz). *[NPR](/source/NPR)*. Retrieved 19 May 2024.

1. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 136.

1. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 462.

1. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 623.

1. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 625.

1. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 1318.

**Bibliography**

- Cook, Richard & Morton, Brian (2008). *[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz)*. 9th ed. [Penguin](/source/Penguin_Books). ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

## Further reading

- Leslie Gourse, Madame Jazz. Oxford University Press. New York 1995. ISBN 0-19-508696-1

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