Born in New Orleans of French heritage, Jeanine “Dr. Jazz” Normand grew up in her famous father’s orchestra, the Jack Normand Orchestra, at the international Grand Hotel Resort, now the Marriott Grand Autograph Collection, Point Clear, AL. While teaching French In university, she earned her honorary PhD degree and several MA degrees. Dr. Jazz Normand moved to France twice, taught at the Sorbonne i
n Paris, where her students gave her the sobriquet “Dr. Jazz,” and where she performed piano concerts on piano, bass, and drums, including with youth symphonies in Nice, France, and around Europe. Dr. Jazz Normand performed with Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald at the Festival de Jazz de Nice in 1972. Dr. Jazz Normand has had a concurrent career as a multiinstrumentalist recording artist, bandleader, arranger, and composer, from classical to blues to rock to jazz. Fluent in several languages, author, poet, social justice warrior, and lesbian activist, she is also the CEO of her own international consulting and PR business. Jeanine “Dr. Jazz” Normand, a concert pianist living on the Gulf Coast, specializes in the “Great American Songbook,” and also in Gershwin, Jobim, modern French composers, and women composers. Her bylines are “Twinkling Glamour Piano” and “Le Hot Jazz and Cool Brazilian”
