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Jane Ira Bloom

CD Reviews: Ghost Train Orchestra’s Book of Rhapsodies, Vol. II” and Jane Ira Bloom’s “Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson” – Second Thoughts

In two new releases, Jane Ira Bloom and Brian Carpenter complete their work on self-defined projects that are tonics for a time of trouble.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Brian Carpenter, Ghost Train Orchestra, Jane Ira Bloom, Steve Elman, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson

Jazz CD Round-up: Jane Ira Bloom, Robert Glasper, Wadada Leo Smith, Anna Webber, and More

Over a dozen short notices of recent jazz recordings that I find musically stimulating.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: America’s National Parks, Anna Webber, Basically Baker Volume Two: The Big Band Music of David Baker, Binary, Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Darrell Katz, Early Americans, Flux, Frank Kimbrough, Jack DeJohnette In Movement, Jailhouse Doc With Holes in Her Socks, Jane Ira Bloom, Ken Schaphorst How to Say Goodbye, Kenny Garrett Do Your Dance!, Mockroot, Quinsin Nachoff, Renee Rosnes, Richie Cole Plays Ballads and Love Songs, Robert Glasper ArtScience, Solstice, Tigran Hamasyan, Wadada Leo Smith, Written in the Rocks

Jazz Performance and CD Review / Commentary: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Wild Lines” and “Early Americans”

Exposing the jazz impulses in Emily Dickinson’s poetry is not an agenda for the novice.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: "Wild Lines", Chamber Music America, Chasing Paint, Dawn Clement, Deborah Rush, Early Americans, Emily Dickinson, Glenn Siegel’s Magic Triangle, Jane Ira Bloom

Jazz CD Review / Appreciation: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Sixteen Sunsets” – Jazz Mastery, Undiluted

In nearly 78 minutes of intensely concentrated playing, Jane Ira Bloom’s album offers some of the greatest ballad performances I have ever heard.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets

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