Outline Rec invites Sunday June 5, 2016 the launch of the new CD from its star Jane Ira Bloom, "Early Americans" on Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City

"When we talk about the Ladies of Jazz, mention must have for Jane Ira Bloom,

one of the most complete today, full of virtues in different 

musical areas ", Luis Raul Montell -  Jazz Global Beat 

The CD:

“Early Americans”

Jane Ira Bloom

Tracks: 1. Song Patrol; 2. Dangerous Times; 3. Nearly (fot Kenny Wheeler); 4. Hips & Sticks; 5. Singing the Triangle; 6. Other Eyes; 7. Rhyme or Rhythm; 8. Mind Gray River; 9. Cornets of Paradise; 10. Say More; 11. Gateway to Progress; 12. Big Bill; 13. Somewhere

The Musicians:

Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone, composer, educator, producer); Mark Helias (bass); Bobby Previte (drums)

Impressively of Jane Ira Bloom. "Early Americans" not only is the production number sixteen (16) of one of the greatest soprano saxophonist of all time, but in her career, in all musical facets, can be seen an marked growth.

This time it meets in two notable musicians Trio with Mark Helias (bass) and Bobby Previte (drums), and the results are satisfactory, as always.

All her compositions are carried contagious rhythm, and even the only "Somewhere" is original of t of he famous Leonard Berstein (RIP) and in homage to him, they are works of art. The Jazz is Art.

This excellent album "Early Americans" contains melodies in different styles and rhythms, but with the creative and personal seal of Miss Bloom.

If you want to know the live music of "Early Americans" Sunday is an excellent opportunity because Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias and Bobby Previte be together playing @ Cornelia St. Cafe, New York City from 8:30 pm and may further acquire new album.

Notes of Jane Ira Bloom:

Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom has been steadfastly developing her unique voice on the soprano saxophone for over 30 years. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz, as well as the possessor of "one of the most gorgeous tones and hauntingly lyrical ballad conceptions of any soprano saxophonist - Pulse." 

Her continuing commitment to "pushing the envelope" in her music has led to collaborations with such outstanding jazz artists as Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Rufus Reid, Matt Wilson, Bob Brookmeyer, Julian Priester, Jerry Granelli, Matt Wilson, Jay Clayton, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte, & Fred Hersch. She's also spearheaded collaborative world music groups featuring world music virtuosi Min Xioa-Fen on Chinese pipa, South Indian veena artist Geetha Ramanathan Bennett, Korean komungo player Jin Hi Kim, and bassist Mark Dresser. She has performed at such diverse venues as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Kennedy Center, the United Nations, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Smithsonian's Einstein Planetarium, the Montreal, JVC, and San Francisco Jazz Festivals as well as regular club engagements in NYC and tours of England, Portugal, Switzerland and Brazil with her current quartet. 

She has garnered numerous awards for her creativity including a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition and a 2009 residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Winner of the 2007 Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Award for lifetime service to jazz, the 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2012 Jazz Journalists Award for soprano sax of the year, the Downbeat International Critics Poll for soprano saxophone, the Charlie Parker Fellowship for Jazz Innovation and the International Women in Jazz Jazz Masters Award, she is the first musician ever commissioned by the NASA Art Program and was also honored by having an asteroid named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid 6083janeirabloom). A new jazz festival in Brooklyn, NY featuring cutting edge woman artists was named in her honor (The 2009 Bloom Festival). 

A strong visual thinker and a cinematic stylist, Bloom's affinity for other art forms such as painting, film, theatre and dance has both enriched her music and brought her into contact with other innovative artists such as actors Vanessa Redgrave & Joanne Woodward, painter Dan Namingha, comic Lewis Black, cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and legendary dancer/ choreographer Carmen DeLavallade. She has composed for the American Composers Orchestra (NYC), the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the Pilobolus, Paradigm, & Philadanco Dance Companies, TV movie features (Shadow of A Doubt/ NBC-TV), and film soundscores (John Sayles' Silver City) writing works for large ensemble involving her signature movement techniques. She has also collaborated with classical composers premiering new works for soprano saxophone ("Sinfonia" by Augusta Read Thomas). She has curated a discussion/ performance series on improvisation at the Philoctetes Center for the Multi-Disciplinary Study of Imagination in NYC, presenting a wide range of programs including collaborations with dancer/ choreographer Carmen deLavallade and bassist Rufus Reid (Moving & Playing: Jazz Improvisation & Dance), performances with pianist Fred Hersch and bassist Drew Gress (The Art of the Ballad), and panel discussions with neuroscientist Josh McDermott and Arabic music scholar Toufiq Ben Amor (Dancing on the Ceiling: Music and the Brain). Videos of the events can be viewed here. 

Bloom is the recipient of numerous grants including two artist fellowships in jazz composition from the Chamber Music America / Doris Duke New Jazz Works Program for the creation of Chasing Paint, a series of compositions inspired by painter Jackson Pollock that premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a suite of new compositions for her current quartet. 

"Sometimes I throw sound around the band like paint and other times I play and feel as if I was carving silence like a sculptor."

The Philadelphia Music Project commissioned her premiere of Unexpected Light - a unique collaboration of improvised sound & light with world renowned lighting designer James F. Ingalls. Recently JIB has participated in several international and “remote” events directed by bassist Mark Dresser and composer Sarah Weaver including a large ensemble performance at the United Nations that linked improvising musicians in Korea, China, New York, and San Diego. Bloom continues to find inspiration in creating exploratory music with improvising musicians from around the world. She has recorded and produced 15 albums of her music dating from 1977 to the present. In 1976 she founded her own record label & publishing company (Outline Music) and later recorded for ENJA, CBS, Arabesque and Artistshare Records. Bloom has been the subject of a number of media profiles; she has been featured on CBS TV's Sunday Morning, Talkin' Jazz on NBC-TV, TIME Magazine's Women: The Road Ahead special issue, in the publication Jazzwomen: Conversations w/ 21 Musicians, in the Library of Congress Women Who Dare calendar, in Life Magazine's "Living Jazz Legends," on NPR's Morning Edition, Jazzset, Live From the Kennedy Center w/ Dr. Billy Taylor, and in the documentary film Reed Royalty hosted by Branford Marsalis. She is a professor at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in NYC, holds degrees from Yale University and Yale School of Music and studied saxophone with woodwind virtuoso Joseph Viola. Nat Hentoff has called Bloom an artist "beyond category." Bill Milkowski has called her "A true jazz original...a restlessly creative spirit, and a modern day role model for any aspiring musician who dares to follow his or her own vision."

Just get this year, 2016, the Jazz Journalist Association Award for Soprano Saxophone.

We want to share with you this simple and brief presentation made by the great Jane Ira Bloom from her CD "Early Americans" whose compositions can enjoy live Sunday June 5, 2016 @Cornelia St. Cafe, New York City:

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