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Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song

Read "Like Silver, Like Song" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Jane Ira Bloom has a visual approach to sound. She is inspired by visual textures like the action paintings of Jackson Pollock (Chasing Paint, Arabesque, 2003); she adds her abstract black and white photography to her new release; but she describes Like Silver, Like Song as a continuous visual dream. A melodic dream, to be sure, ...

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Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song

Read "Like Silver, Like Song" reviewed by Jim Santella


Welcome to the 21st Century. With her electro-acoustic design, Jane Ira Bloom forges into exciting territory. She lifts her proud interpretation of straight-ahead, mainstream jazz into a higher realm. Using electronic devices, Bloom and her musical partners shift sound patterns into what we've come to know as science fiction effects. The band ...

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Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song

Read "Like Silver, Like Song" reviewed by John Kelman


Jane Ira Bloom is one of only a handful of artists who make the soprano saxophone their main axe. But unlike David Liebman, whose expressionist bent is an acoustic concern, Bloom innovates by seamlessly and organically blending real-time electronic processing. That's not to say the sounds she coaxes out of her instrument are necessarily natural, but ...

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Chasing Paint

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Unexpected Light 2. Chasing Paint 3. The Sweetest Sounds 4. On Seeing JP 5. Many Wonders 6. Jackson Pollock 7. Alchemy 8. Reflections of the Big Dipper 9. White Light

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Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint

Read "Chasing Paint" reviewed by Ty Cumbie


Chasing Paint opens with dreamy piano chords, over which Jane Ira Bloom applies gentle strokes of her buttery soprano tone, presumably an homage to one of Jackson Pollock’s more subtle drip paintings. Pollock, a jazz lover, famously listened to the stuff while working, though he liked the old style variety as opposed to the freely improvised ...

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Jane Ira Bloom

Read "Jane Ira Bloom" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Innovative instrumentalist and composer Jane Ira Bloom recently released the album Chasing Paint: Jane Ira Bloom Meets Jackson Pollock. Working with Fred Hersch on piano, Mark Dresser on bass, and Bobby Previte on drums, Bloom composed a nine movement suite inspired by her longtime interest in abstract expressionism and Pollock specifically. It was my distinct privilege ...

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Chasing Paint: Jane Ira Bloom Meets Jackson Pollock

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Unexpected Light 2. Chasing Paint 3. The Sweetest Sounds 4. On Seeing JP 5. Many Wonders 6. Jackson Pollock 7. Alchemy 8. Reflections of the Big Dipper 9. White Light

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Chasing Paint

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: Unexpected Light; Chasing Paint; The Sweetest Sounds; On Seeing JP; Many Wonders; Jackson Pollock; Alchemy; Reflections of the Big Dipper; White Light.

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Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint: Jane Ira Bloom Meets Jackson Pollock

Read "Chasing Paint: Jane Ira Bloom Meets Jackson Pollock" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Jackson Pollock happens to be my favorite painter. Certain works have imprinted themselves on my eyes so permanently as to alter my sense of space, color, and the limits of expression. For this reason alone, Jane Ira Bloom's experimental homage Chasing Paint was both immediately fascinating and disturbing. Encountering Bloom’s provocative compositions in this heightened state ...


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