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Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson

by Neri Pollastri
La sopranista Jane Ira Bloom, da sempre autrice di una musica sofisticata e in ideale dialogo con altre arti, duetta qui con l'universo poetico di Emily Dickinson in due CD con un analogo programma di brani (sebbene eseguiti in ordine diverso tra loro), il primo solo strumentale, il secondo con la presenza della voce recitante di ...
Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson

Label: Outline
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD 1:
Emily & Her Atoms; Alone & in a Circumstance; Other Eyes; Singing the Triangle; Mind Gray River; One Note from One Bird; Cornets of Paradise; A Star Not Far Enough; Hymn: You Wish You Had Eyes in Your Pages; Wild Lines; Say More; Bright Wednesday; Big Bill; It’s Easy to Remember.
CD 2 (music & poetry): Wild Lines; Emily & Her Atoms; Alone & in a Circumstance; One Note from One Bird; Dangerous Times; A Star Not Far Enough; Singing the Triangle; Mind Gray River; Cornets of Paradise; Other Eyes; Say More; Hymn: You Wish You Had Eyes in Your Pages; Bright Wednesday; Big Bill; It’s Easy to Remember.
Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson

by Mark Sullivan
Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom follows up her trio album Early Americans (Outline Records, 2016) with a concept album for quartet. In fact several of these tunes appeared in more open trio versions on the earlier album: Dangerous Times," Singing The Triangle," Other Eyes," Mind Gray River," Cornets Of Paradise," and Big Bill"--so she has evidently ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson

by Troy Dostert
When you think about it, it's not that hard to see the affinity between soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and Emily Dickinson. Despite their fame coming from two different artistic worlds (although not completely different, as it turns out, as Dickinson was apparently a talented pianist), they do have a good deal in common. Bloom is ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson

by Roger Farbey
Jane Ira Bloom, winner of the 65th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll Winners (2017) award in the soprano saxophone category, took as her inspiration for this recording, the writings of nineteenth century America poet Emily Dickinson. Such was her admiration for the poet that she composed the music for this double CD as a lyrical paean, made ...
Early Americans

Label: Outline
Released: 2016
Track listing: Song Patrol; Dangerous Times; Nearly (For Kenny Wheeler); Hips & Sticks; Singing the Triangle; Other Eyes; Rhyme or Rhythm; Mind Gray River; Cornets of Paradise; Say More; Gateway to Progress; Big Bill; Somewhere.
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

by Ian Patterson
Three years on from the ballad standards of Sixteen Sunsets (Outline, 2013), Jane Ira Bloom--one of the few specialist soprano saxophonists--returns with a lustrous collection of originals. At one extreme, the trio of Bloom, Mark Helias and Bobby Previte fairly bristles with collective energy; at the other, it seduces with caressing, impressionistic lyricism. At whatever tempi, ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso a metà luglio del 2015, questo è con tutta probabilità il miglior album di Jane Ira Bloom che ci sia passato per le mani. Le grandi curiosità iniziali, attorno a questa esile donna che oltre trent'anni fa faceva parlare di sé accanto ai maestri dello strumento che si stava imponendo come una sorta di cornucopia ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

by Dan McClenaghan
One jazz music's premier soprano saxophonists, Jane Ira Bloom, crafted a career-defining recording with Sixteen Sunsets (Outline Records, 2013). So how does she follow that up? With an alteration of her quartet trajectory. Bloom's recorded output has consisted, over a career that began in the late 90s, of a series of mostly quartet sets, featuring terrific ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

by Hrayr Attarian
Over a fruitful career versatile soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has demonstrated a singular artistic voice and a restlessly explorative spirit. Since 2010 she has gone from the free flowing, edgy and electrifying Wingwalker (Outline 2010) to the serene and ethereal Sixteen Sunsets (Outline 2013) and now she presents the earthy and exuberant Early Americans. Her ...