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Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
by J Hunter
Since 2000, Chamber Music America has put its imprint on jazz by supporting projects by (among others) Dave Douglas, Ben Allison, Don Byron and Ryan Cohan. But while Cohan's multi-hued plea for peace One Sky (Justin Time, 2008) operates on a macro scale, saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom's Mental Weather is much more intimate, though no less ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
by John Kelman
Sometimes it's good to shake things up. Jane Ira Bloom has been working with the same bass/drum team of Mark Dresser and Bobby Previte since The Red Quartets (Arabesque, 1999) and, more often than not, the soprano saxophonist's pianist of choice has been Fred Hersch as far back as Mighty Lights (Enja, 1983). Bloom's distinctive blend ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
by Lyn Horton
In the distinctly male world of jazz and improvised music, it is particularly good to hear music that sparkles with femaleness. The fact that a woman composes and plays that music is icing on the cake. Suddenly, everything seems to fit together. The gender. The sound. The dynamic. And nothing could identify this femaleness more than ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
by Martin Longley
Jane Ira Bloom is a pixie. An electronicized pixie, to be precise. This is not entirely a musical image, but also a description of her onstage demeanor. Mental Weather's chief quality is one of capering lightness, as the quartet leader's soprano saxophone negotiates the tricky lines set up by the composing half of her brain, navigating ...
Jane Ira Bloom "Mental Weather" with Dawn Clement, Mark Helias, and Matt Wilson Now Available
Award winning soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has a new album on an old label. After thirty years Jane has returned to her original LP label that she began when she first started her career in New Haven, CT - Outline Records. Her electro-acoustic band brings together fellow 70's New Havenite Mark Helias on bass, drummer ...
Like Silver, Like Song
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2006
Track listing: Dreaming in the Present Tense; Unconscious Forces; Singing in Stripes; Altair 4; Vanishing Hat; White Light; No Orchestra; Magnetic; In an Instant; Mercury; Night Skywriting; Dark Knowledge; I Have Dreamed; Singing in Stripes (61:08).
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
by Jack Bowers
Jane Ira Bloom is one of those musicians I'd known about by reputation but hadn't actually heard. Now, having listened at last to her most recent album, Like Silver, Like Song, I am somewhat at a loss as to what to say about it. Even though well-played--let there be no doubt about that--it is clearly on ...
Like Silver, Like Song
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2005
Track listing: Dreaming in the Present Tense; Unconscious Forces; Singing in Stripes; Altair 4; Vanishing Hat; White Light; No Orchestra; Magnetic; In an Instant; Mercury; Night Skywriting; Dark Knowledge; I Have Dreamed; Singing in Stripes
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
by Michael McCaw
Like Silver, Like Song marks another fine addition to Jane Ira Bloom's catalog and another evolution of her working quartet, which has featured a number of accomplished pianists. However, with the addition of Jamie Saft this time around, one can easily hear that she may have discovered her ideal foil. Bloom has long been developing her ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
by Ernest Barteldes
If jazz experimentation is your cup of tea, this new album by soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom is an album to hear. In fourteen tracks (all but one written or co-written by Bloom) presented as one continuous suite, Bloom and her backing musicians play around with a mixture of sounds that doesn't make much sense to ...
