Jason Freese

Jason Jeremy Freese (born January 12, 1975) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist.^[1] Since 2004, he has been the touring keyboard and saxophone player for the punk rock band Green Day. Freese has performed on over 50 albums, mainly on saxophones and keyboards, including for artists Green Day, Dr. Dre, Pitbull, Avenged Sevenfold, Goo Goo Dolls, and Jewel.^[2]

Jason Freese
Freese performing with Green Day in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Jason Jeremy Freese
Born	(1975-01-12) January 12, 1975 (age 50)
Origin	Orange County, California, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock punk rock pop punk garage rock
Occupation	Musician
Instruments	Keyboards saxophone flute trombone vocals guitar
Years active	1992–present
Father	Stan Freese
Relatives	Josh Freese (brother)
Member of	Foxboro Hot Tubs
Website	jasonfreese.com

Early life

Freese was born on January 12, 1975, in Orange County, California. His father, Stan Freese, was leader of the Disneyland Band in Disneyland Park at the time of his birth, and went on to become a talent booker for the park.^[1] His mother, Trisha Freese (later Bridenstine), is a concert pianist and writer.^[1] Freese's older brother is drummer Josh Freese.^[3][2]

Beginning at the age of five and seven, Freese and his brother spent their summers at Disneyland while their father worked.^[1] They both watched him perform concerts with the Disneyland Band and sometimes participated with plastic instruments.^[1] Both boys eventually got jobs shining shoes for the park employees.^[1]

Career

Freese attended Brookhaven Elementary School, Tuffree Middle School and El Dorado High School. Then enrolled at California State University, Fullerton. At age 23, he was a year and a half away from graduation when an opportunity came up to go on tour with Joe Walsh of The Eagles.

After the Joe Walsh tour, Freese joined the Goo Goo Dolls. At the time, the Goo Goo Dolls had the same manager as Green Day.^[1] Freese has performed as a studio musician and touring member in Green Day since 2004. He has performed on their American Idiot World Tour, 21st Century Breakdown World Tour, 99 Revolutions Tour, Revolution Radio Tour, and Hella Mega Tour and appeared on their live albums Bullet in a Bible and Awesome as Fuck. His performing credits most often consist of saxophone, piano, and keyboards.^[2] His credits as a producer include Jewel's 2009 album Lullaby and Death by Stereo's 2009 album Death Is My Only Friend.^[2]

Discography

Release date	Artist	Title	Credits
1996-10-08	The Vandals	Oi to the World!	saxophone[2]
1997	Ex-Idols	Who We Are	saxophone[2]
1998-06-23	The Vandals	Hitler Bad, Vandals Good	saxophone[2]
1999-03-09	Joe Sherbanee	The Road Ahead	tenor saxophone[2]
2000-07-11	Josh Freese	The Notorious One Man Orgy	piano, saxophone[2]
2000-11-21	Dweezil Zappa	Automatic	performer[2]
2001-09-18	Los Calzones	Plastico	keyboards[2]
2001-11-27	Various artists	The Concert for New York City	keyboards[2]
2002-09-27	Lazlo Bane	All the Time in the World	saxophone
2003-01-28	Engelbert Humperdinck	Definition of Love	backing vocals, saxophone, keyboards[2]
2003-05-06	NOFX	The War on Errorism	saxophone[2]
2003-06-27	Jeff Scott Soto	Prism	saxophone[2]
2003-08-05	Stripsearch	Stripsearch	saxophone[2]
2004-09-28	Klear	Makin' Noise	keyboards, bells, Hammond organ, whistling[2]
2004-03-30	Rennie Pilgrem	Y4K	saxophone[2]
2004-05-04	Kimberley Locke	One Love	horn[2]
2004-05-11	Ellis Hall	Straight Ahead	tenor saxophone[2]
2004-07-27	Tommy Stinson	Village Gorilla Head	saxophone[2]
2004-09-21	Green Day	American Idiot	saxophone[2]
2004-09-28	Afrika Bambaataa	Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light	saxophone[2]
2004-09-28	The Juliet Dagger	Turn Up the Death	keyboards[2]
2004-09-28	Last Conservative	On to the Next One	keyboards[2]
2004-10-26	Fredalba	Uptown Music for Downtown Kids	keyboards[2]
2004-11-02	A Perfect Circle	Emotive	baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone[2]
2004-11-23	Goo Goo Dolls	Live in Buffalo: July 4, 2004	keyboards, percussion, saxophone[2]
2005-03-15	Various artists	Drum Nation, Volume Two	saxophone[2]
2005-05-10	Weezer	Make Believe	saxophone[2]
2005-08-23	Aphrodite	Overdrive	saxophone[2]
2005-11-15	Green Day	Bullet in a Bible	backing vocals, saxophone, trombone, keyboards, acoustic guitar, accordion[2]
2006-02-25	Goo Goo Dolls	Let Love In	keyboards[2]
2006-06-13	Busta Rhymes	The Big Bang	saxophone[2]
2006-07-11	Zebrahead	Broadcast to the World	musician, composer, instrumentation[2]
2006-09-19	Faulter	Darling Buds of May	organ[2]
2006-10-31	Viva Death	One Percent Panic	baritone saxophone[2]
2006-11-21	Rock Star Supernova	Rock Star Supernova	musician[2]
2007-06-26	Forty Marshas	Forty Marshas	saxophone, piano, keyboards[2]
2007-07-10	Spoon	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga	saxophone[2]
2007-09-10	One Small Step for Landmines	One Small Step for Landmines	Hammond organ[2]
2008-01-22	The Whigs	Mission Control	baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone[2]
2008-04-08	P.O.D.	When Angels & Serpents Dance	keyboards[2]
2008-04-22	Foxboro Hot Tubs	Stop Drop and Roll!!!	keyboard, saxophone, flute, backing vocals
2008-06-03	Jewel	Perfectly Clear	mellotron, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer organ, strings[2]
2008-06-23	Fandangle	Fly Away	keyboards[2]
2008-08-05	Zebrahead	Phoenix	backing vocals, musician, demo coordinator[2]
2008-08-05	Jimmy Kane	A Constant State of Motion	piano[2]
2009-04-14	Josh Freese	Since 1972	saxophone[4]
2009-04-28	NOFX	Coaster	keyboards[2]
2009-05-05	Jewel	Lullaby	producer, mellotron, triangle, accordion, piano[2]
2009-05-15	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown	piano[2]
2009-06-02	Candy Now!	Candy Now!	clarinet[2]
2009-07-07	Death by Stereo	Death Is My Only Friend	producer, backing vocals, instrumentation, recording engineer, composer[2]
2009-07-07	Yves Klein Blue	Ragged & Ecstatic	tenor saxophone[2]
2010-06-08	Jewel	Sweet and Wild	mellotron, glockenspiel[2]
2011-03-22	Green Day	Awesome as Fuck	keyboards, horns, backing vocals[2][5]
2011-07-27	Zebrahead	Get Nice!	producer, instrumentation, pre-production, backing vocals, recording engineer
2012-06-01	Vicci Martinez	Vicci	keyboards
2012-06-19	LIT	The View from the Bottom	Hammond B3, piano, strings
2013-04-09	Face To Face	Three Chords and a Half Truth	Hammond B3, tenor sax
2014-09-29	Gerard Way	Hesitant Alien	baritone saxophone
2014-11-21	Pitbull	Globalization	saxophone
2015-07-17	Sublime With Rome	Sirens	drums, percussion
2015-08-07	Dr. Dre	Compton	saxophone
2016-10-28	Avenged Sevenfold	The Stage	keyboards
2017-11-17	Green Day	God's Favorite Band	piano
2018-06-29	The Interrupters	Fight the Good Fight	saxophone
2022-08-05	The Interrupters	In the Wild	saxophone
2023-06-02	Avenged Sevenfold	Life Is But a Dream...	Synthesizer