Mara Rosenbloom

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Mara Rosenbloom (born December 11, 1984 ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

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Rosenbloom, who is from Madison, Wisconsin , studied jazz piano and composition at New York University , where she earned a bachelor's degree in 2008, and has worked in the New York jazz scene a. a. with Henry Grimes and Cooper-Moore , in Chicago with Jason Stein and Mike Reed . At the Jazz Peru 2008 festival she performed with Eva Ayllon and the Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet.

In 2009 she released her debut album School of Fish , which she recorded with Darius Jones (saxophone), Isaac Jaffe (bass) and Nick Anderson (drums). Her compositions for large ensemble were premiered at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club under the direction of Jim McNeely . In 2013 she took lessons from Connie Crothers . With Fresh Sound albums followed Songs from the Ground (2013) and Prairie Burn (2016, with Sean Conly and Chad Taylor ). In the compositions of the trio album, she made reference to the landscape of her home country as well as Ornette Coleman's Skies of America (1972) and Joni Mitchell's recordings in the mid-1970s. Currently (2018) she works in a duo with the singer Emilie Lesbros .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short portrait ( All About Jazz )
  2. ↑ a b Peter Margasak: pianist Mara Rosenbloom pays tribute to her Wisconsin roots on Prairie Burn. Chicago Reader, October 19, 2017, accessed March 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Giovanni Russo Nelli: For Mara Rosenbloom, piano as a Remedy and a force in jazz. The New York Times , January 20, 2017, accessed March 28, 2018 .
  4. ^ The IBeam Brooklyn in April. Avant Music News, March 28, 2018, accessed March 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenbloom, Mara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Wisconsin