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BIO
Jenny Hill, saxophones and flutes, is a composer, arranger, performer and also leads her own band Liquid Horn, a jazz sextet featuring her own compositions. In 2023, Jenny was awarded a Performance Plus grant from Chamber Music America and an Arts Alive grant from Westchester Arts Council. She is currently a member of Lioness, an all-female jazz sextet, and also recently played on Grammy-nominated Heavy Load by Govt Mule band. She played on the Easy Star All-Stars newest release, Ziggy Stardub, and will be touring the U.S. and England in support of the new project.
Led by saxophonist/flautist/composer Jenny Hill, Liquid Horn presents a rich sampling of jazz, South American and Caribbean grooves and the funky side of Brooklyn. Formed in 1998, Jenny Hill and Liquid Horn have performed at the Blue Note in NYC, the CIVEBRA music conference in Brasilia, Brazil, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn’s Ethical Cultural Society, the Metrotech concert series, the Urban League of Cincinnati’s Gala, Club Infinu, the Clube do Choro and Gates Pub in Brasilia, and other New York jazz venues such as 55 Bar.
The group has released 4 Cds: Groove Garden, The Chill Factor, Planet Sax and Liquid Horn, and is about to record the fifth project in November 2023. A Berklee graduate, Jenny Hill has been the recipient of many honors including the National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Studies grant with Joe Lovano, winner in the JAZZIZ Woodwinds On Fire competition, and the Lennie Johnson Outstanding Musician scholarship from Berklee College.
Bill Milkowski of Jazz Times calls her “an accomplished composer-arranger and first-rate soloist, with some bold playing on tenor, soprano and flute. Highly recommended.”
“...verdant with melody, sparkling with textures, apulse with back-beats...” Howard Mandel, Future Jazz, Down Beat, JazzTimes
Jenny’s resume includes touring/performing with her own band Liquid Horn, Lioness, Denis Leary, the Easy Star All-Stars, the Black Rock Coalition, Maurice Hines, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, the Broken Reed Sax Quartet, Burning Spear, Maxi Priest, Daniel Ponce, Govt Mule, and others. Recent performances include the Rochester Jazz Festival with Lioness, the TD Garden in Boston with Denis Leary and Jimmy Fallon, and Stand Up For Heroes at Lincoln Center with host Jon Stewart.
Jenny’s jazz credits include performing with Nancy Wilson, Dianne Schuur, Clark Terry, Dave Brubeck, Joe Williams, and Cab Calloway while a member of the DIVA jazz orchestra. She performed with Maurice Hines in “Tappin’ Thru Life” for 5 weeks at the Cleveland Playhouse, and also played the woodwind chairs on Broadway in the musicals Hair, Sweet Charity, and Rock and Roll Man. Jenny and her band performed at the national music conference CIVEBRA in Brasilia, Brazil. Jenny is a featured artist in the books Practice Like The Pros by Sue Terry and Rock and Roll Saxophone by John Laughter. She performed for the King of Morocco in Agadir.