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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 ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans

by Mark Sullivan
Saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom is one of the few jazz players to concentrate solely on the soprano saxophone. In 35 years she has recorded sixteen albums as a leader, most often in a quartet with piano. This is her first trio album, in the company of longtime playing partners bassist Mark Helias and drummer Bobby Previte. ...
Sixteen Sunsets

Label: Outline
Released: 2014
Track listing: For All We Know; What She Wanted; Gershwin's Skyline / I Loves You Porgy; Darn That Dream; Good Morning Heartache; Out of This World; Ice Dancing (for Torvill & Dean); Left Alone; The Way You Look Tonight; But Not for Me; Primary Colors; My Ship; Too Many Reasons; Bird Experiencing Light.
Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets

by Alberto Bazzurro
Di Jane Ira Bloom ricordiamo le immagini giovanili, quando, negli anni Ottanta, offriva il proprio contributo all'epifania del sax soprano, destando non poca curiosità, anche per il fatto di essere donna, quando ancora cantanti e pianiste godevano di un monopolio pressoché esclusivo sul plotoncino delle jazz women. La ritroviamo oggi (non senza averne ...
Sixteen Sunsets

Label: Outline
Released: 2013
Track listing: For All We Know; What She Wanted; Gershwin's Skyline/I Loves You Porgy;
Darn That Dream; Good Morning Heartache; Out of This World; Ice
Dancing; Left Alone; The Way You Look Tonight; But Not For Me; Primary
Colors; My Ship; Too Many Reasons; Bird Experiencing Light.
Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets

by Hrayr Attarian
Soprano saxophone virtuoso Jane Ira Bloom's intensely intimate and simultaneously cinematic Sixteen Sunsets is quite different from her preceding albums, Like Silver, Like Song (Artistshare, 2005), Mental Weather (Outline, 2008) and Wingwalker (Outline, 2010). Gone are the edgy flirtations with freer styles as well as the provocative, electrifying compositions. Instead the material is mostly standards and ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2013

by Dan McClenaghan
Lots of extraordinary music. These are my picks for outstanding CDs of the year. Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette Somewhere ECM Records Pianist Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio," with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, recorded Somewhere live in 2009. After thirty years together, the group is still growing. This will ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets

by Dan McClenaghan
Sidney Bechet pioneered the use of the soprano saxophone in jazz in the early 20s. John Coltrane brought that straight horn" out of a relative dormancy of use in 1959 with his anthem-like take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's My Favorite Things" on his Atlantic Records album of the same name. Steve Lacy took the soprano out ...
Outline
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2012
Track listing:
1. Lament (Kondakov); 2. Out Of Step (Kondakov, Shilkloper, Volkov); 3. The Outing (Kondakov, Volkov); 4. Outline (Kondakov, Shilkloper, Volkov); 5. Cradle Song (Kondakov);
6. Sweet Georgia Brown (Kondakov, M. Pinkard, Volkov); 7. Out Of Tune (Kondakov, Shilkloper, Volkov); 8. Deancing (Kondakov); 9. Lines (Kondakov, Shilkloper, Volkov).