ARTISTS

Jane Fontana

Jane Fontana has played sax everywhere. From street corners and dive bars to stadium venues and television, Jane’s gritty and bold approach to horn playing has surprised and delighted listeners for more than twenty-five years.

Jane uses HERCULES sax stands DS431B and DS536B. She says, “I have great confidence in Hercules stands. If Hercules doesn't hold up my sax when an over-anxious fan (or guitar player) happens to be on stage, nothing will."

Jane started out busking at ten, earning quarters from passer-bys at her grade school bus stop, and moved on to playing in local pop bands by thirteen. At fourteen, she got her first big break, blowing with the vintage surf band, ‘The Ventures’. The gig turned out to be a wash, however, when the notorious ‘Madame Wong’s’ club they were set to play got busted for allowing a minor in an alcohol-serving venue.

Jane went back to Hollywood and to busking, playing corners on Melrose and at the famed Venice boardwalk. She did clubs, too, after she turned twenty-one, like the Whiskey and the Viper Room. Always up for improvising, she jammed at a variety of rooms, ending up on stage and blowing with whomever showed up, including George Benson, Chaka Kahn, and Bono.

She moved to North Carolina for a bit, playing in blues guitar master, buckdancer, and National Heritage Foundation Award winner, John Dee Holeman’s band. It was also in North Carolina where Jane blew sax at the Time Warner Music Pavilion (formerly known as the Hardees Pavilion). She was hired to support a summer’s worth of A-List performers, playing solo and unaccompanied as the opening act for Sting, Van Halen, and Paul Simon, among others.

Back in Los Angeles now, Jane is the lone horn player on the new Fran Drescher ‘Tawk’ Show on Fox, bringing some edge and honk to daytime TV.

Jane also composes and performs score music for a variety of TV shows, including Extra and Access Hollywood, Ellen, Tyra, and Oprah, and more than twenty MTV and VH1 shows.

Jane is also a consummate singer and songwriter. Her vocal music has been used in many films, including Arnold Schwarzennegger’s The Sixth Day, The Killing Club, starring Julie Bowen (Modern Family), and Farm Sluts, starring Chris Parnell (30 Rock).

Visit janefontana.com to find out more.