Jane Ira Bloom News

The JVC Jazz Festival is gone, but The Tea Lounge in Park Slope has brewed something strong and new: The Bloom Festival, curated by journalist Lara Pellegrinelli and violist Tanya Kalmanovitch.

Jackson Pollock , the Abstract Expressionist American painter best known for his "drip paintings" produced from 1947 to 1950, loved and was inspired by jazz.

Representative of what has been coined the "new" jazz studies, these two books are compilations of critical essays edited by Graham Lock and David Murray, which investigate and unpack the role and influence of jazz and blues in African American culture.

Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom performs at Yale Friday. Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom has an asteroid named after her and was the first musician commissioned by NASA to compose hallelujahs to the space program.

Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, pianist Fred Hersch, & bassist Drew Gress present a performance/ discussion on 'Jazz Improvisation: The Art of the Ballad" at The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary ...