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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 ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
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, ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
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 ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
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 ...
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
Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint
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 ...
Jane Ira Bloom
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 ...
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.
