Jane Ira Bloom

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Jane Ira Bloom (* 12. January 1955 in Boston ) is an American jazz - Sopransaxophonistin and composer .

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Bloom first studied from 1968 to 1977 in Boston at Berklee College of Music with Joseph Viola and from 1972 at Yale , where she obtained a Master of Arts . Then Bloom went to New York City and worked there first with George Coleman , then a. a. with Mark Dresser , Bobby Previte , Kenny Wheeler , Charlie Haden , Bob Brookmeyer , Julian Priester , Jay Clayton and Fred Hersch .

She used live electronics and effects devices to enhance the sound of her saxophone. From 1979 she made her first recordings on her own label Outline and on Columbia Records in the 1980s. With her long-term partner Fred Hersch in particular, she has recorded a number of albums since 1982, of which the ones that stand out for the Arabesque label , such as The Nearness (1991) and The Red Quartets .

Jane Ira Bloom mainly plays soprano saxophone, only occasionally alto saxophone. In 1989 she was the first musician to receive a composition commission from NASA; she wrote the track "Most Distant Galaxy" which is included on her album Art & Aviation (1992). In 1994 her compositions "Einstein's Red / Blue Universe" premiered in New York's Carnegie Hall . She also wrote music for the Pilobouls Dance Company . The asteroid (6083) Janeirabloom was named after her.

Bloom is also involved in a world music project called Atlantic / Pacific Waves , together with the Chinese Min Xiao-Fen ( Pipa ), the Korean Jin Hi Kim ( Komungo ) and the jazz bassist Mark Dresser . She has also written compositions for television films and dance companies.

Her Sixteen Sunsets album from late 2013 received very positive reviews. At the Grammy Awards 2014 , it was also one of the nominees in the category Best Surround Sound Album .

Bloom is married to actor and director Joe Grifasi . You live in New York City . The composer has been a full-time Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School in New York since 1989 .

Discographic notes

  • Mighty Lights ( Enja , 1982) with Charlie Haden, Fred Hersch, Ed Blackwell
  • As One (JMT (Jazz Music Today) / Winter & Winter, 1984) with Fred Hersch
  • Art and Aviation (Arabesque, 1992) with Kenny Wheeler, Rufus Reid , Michael Formanek , Jerry Granelli
  • The Nearness (Arabesque, 1995) with Kenny Wheeler, Julian Priester, Hersch, Reid, Bobby Previte
  • The Red Quartets (Arabesque, 1997–99) with Hersch, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte
  • Sometimes the Magic (Arabesque, 2000) with Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte
  • Chasing Paint (Arabesque, 2004) with Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte, Fred Hersch
  • Like Silver, Like Song (Arabesque, 2004) with Dresser, Previte, Jamie Saft
  • Wingwalker (Outline, 2011) with Dawn Clement , Mark Helias , Bobby Previte
  • Sixteen Sunsets (Outline, 2013) with Cameron Brown (b), Matt Wilson (dr), Dominic Fallacaro (p)
  • Early Americans (Outline, 2016)
  • Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline, 2017)

Awards

  • 2001: Jazz Journalists Award
  • 2001: Down Beat Critics Poll

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Web links

Notes / evidence

  1. ↑ ifccom
  2. ↑ These recordings are now out of print. See Cook & Morton, p. 157
  3. ↑ Both albums were given the highest accolade (****) in the Penguin Guide by Cook and Morton.
  4. ^ NASA: Setting Discovery to Music
  5. ↑ (6083) Janeirabloom
  6. ↑ Bloom's All Music Biography
  7. ↑ Too Much Of A Good Thing? Jane Ira Bloom's Beautiful Ballads , Review by Kevin Whitehead on NPR January 31, 2014, accessed January 13, 2015
  8. ↑ Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (2013) , Dan McClenaghan review on All About Jazz, December 8, 2013, accessed January 13, 2015
  9. ^ The New School Jazz Faculty AZ
  10. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/sixteen-sunsets-mw0002607523
  11. ↑ Billboard Album Peak '21'
personal data
SURNAME Bloom, Jane Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston