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"[JENI FLEMING] is a rare elegance…[revealing] a great sensitivity and beautiful musicality."
- Jazz Hot Magazine, Paris

"I know they are destined for greatness. See them soon and often."
- Dr. Young, Vice Provost, MSU, Bozeman, Montana

"If [JENI] decides she wants it, the big time is hers for the taking."
- The Big Sky Journal Magazine

Fast becoming one of the west's most sought-after musicians, JENI FLEMING brings a breathtaking originality to some of the best music of the American songbook. From classic jazz standards from composers such as Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jobim, to re-arranged pop hits by Cyndi Lauper, The Grateful Dead, or The Beatles, JENI defies easy classification simply saying in defense “a good song is a good song.” Her signature ballads drip with so much emotion that an audience member suggested adding Kleenex boxes on each chair in her Tech Rider. The Big Sky Journal commented “an evening of this and you’re both whipped and exhilarated, you’ve wiped your eyes, yet your cheeks hurt from all the grinning.” With every performance, the songs and stories of JENI FLEMING are winning the hearts of audiences from coast to coast.

The 2nd of 4 daughters to a Lutheran Pastor and an English teacher, JENI's love of music was nurtured at a very young age. “The first songs I knew were hymns,” and since their mother was the director of the church children’s choir she and her 3 sisters all sang in that choir, as she puts it, “...whether or not we wanted to. Some families bond through athletics, some through academics, ours was centered around music.” Private piano lessons began at age 6, by 13 she had won The Young Artist Award and made her classical piano debut with The Billing Symphony, the first of a string of successes in the competitive classical piano world. College offered her a chance to pursue another love, visual arts, but after 4 years as an architecture major, music found her again and she graduated from Montana State University with a degree in music.

“Having studied classical piano for most of my life, it is the thing I know something about, but singing is the thing I feel something about.” In 1997 JENI and (then soon to be) husband Jake recorded their first album together, “It Is Well,” and were featured on a nationally televised program by the Odyssey Channel. With the success of their first 3 recordings, THE JENI FLEMING TRIO was featured as the pilot episode of 11th and Grant with Eric Funk, which aired on Montana PBS in September of 2005, winning an Emmy.

JENI has performed as a vocalist at many major music festivals including UNC Greeley Jazz Festival, (winning 2 Outstanding Soloist Awards), Yellowstone Jazz Festival, Powell Jazz Festival, Juan de Fuca Festival, Jazz Montana (3 years in a row opening for Hilton Ruiz, Dave Valentine, Nicholas Payton, Tim Warfield, Cyrus Chestnut, Gary Bartz and Stefon Harris), Big Timber Jazz Society Concert Series, Phillipsburg Jazz Festival, Jazz at the Depot (Billings, MT opening for Hank Jones), Minot Jazz Festival, Jazz In the Canyon (Twin Bridges, ID, and Jazz Fest International (Victoria, BC), opening for famed pianist Dave Brubeck.

JENI maintains a private studio of 30 piano and voice students, and is the Co-founder with husband Jake of Hand Me Down Some Silver, Inc (HMDSS), an organization offering need-based scholarships for young musicians for music lessons, instruments, and creating professional recording and performance opportunities. (www.HandMeDownSomeSilver.org).

Her performance on the single “Three Cups of Tea,” written by Jake Fleming, commissioned by Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author Greg Mortenson of the National Best Selling book of the same title, continues to garner rave reviews. Proceeds from the single go towards the efforts of both HMDSS and CAI.

JENI's 5th album “We’ll Be Together Again,” features 14 tracks of lushly arranged standards and original pieces, and the work of The String Orchestra of the Rockies, Montana’s premiere string ensemble. Her most recent album "DECEMBER" (2008) is, in her words "…as close as I've gotten to marrying the voice on the recording with the voice in my head. I suppose I'll be chasing that idea for a while."

JENI tours consistently with her 5-piece band, is a guest soloist with various Big Bands and house rhythm sections, and in promotion of her 5th album ("We'll Be Together Again"), as a guest soloist with symphony orchestras across the country.

“JENI's appeal transcends generations and genres…Fleming offers a range and depth capable of raising goose bumps on an August night.”
- The Tributary Magazine

For booking information contact:
Nikki McGee
406-388-2086
nikki@jenifleming.com