JANE IRA BLOOM
Genres: Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, 21st Century Modern, World Fusion, Nu Jazz, Classic Fusion • United States

American jazz saxophonist (soprano) and composer. Born January 12, 1955, in Boston, Massachusetts. from discogs One of the few full-time soprano saxophonists in jazz, Jane Ira Bloom is also recognized as one of the most accomplished. While not an avant-gardist per se, Bloom works on the forward edge of the mainstream. Compositionally her music draws heavily on traditional jazz precepts of swing and tonality/modality, yet her concept of form and structure is quite personal. As an improviser she's not stunningly original, but the whole of her music is greater than the sum of its parts; overall her music bears the stamp of an individual thinker. Bloom began playing music around the age of 12. She attended Yale University as an undergraduate, Yale School of Music for graduate study, and studied privately at Berklee College of Music with Joe Viola. She moved to New York in the late '70s and studied with a former read more...