Janette Mason is a British jazz pianist, arranger, composer and record producer. Three of her albums have received four-starred reviews in The Guardian^[1][2][3] and her second album, Alien Left Hand, was nominated for the Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2010.^[4][5] The film scores she has written include the British dramas Ruby Blue (2008) and The Calling (2009).

Mason toured In the 1990s with such artists as Oasis, K.d. lang and Seal. She has also worked as Musical Director for Antoine de Caunes and Jonathan Ross and has toured in the United States, Europe, Israel, Japan and Thailand. She has also played at the Royal Albert Hall and the Carnegie Hall, and at the Atlanta Jazz Festival and the Rochester International Jazz Festival.^[6] She has performed the music of Robert Wyatt and also toured and collaborated with him.^{[7][dead link]}

Mason was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire and grew up in Wembley in a musical household: her mother, who performed in the Gracie Cole Big Band, played jazz organ and vibraphone.^[8] She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has a degree in musical composition for film and television.^[9]

• (with Steve Lodder) (2008) Totally Interactive Keyboard Bible, Jawbone. ISBN 978-1906002176.