Background
Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 12 to Joel and Evelyn Bloom.
saxophonist university professor jazz musician
Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 12 to Joel and Evelyn Bloom.
Yale University.
She began as a pianist and drummer, later switching to the alto saxophone, and eventually settling on the soprano saxophone as her primary instrument. She first began playing the saxophone seriously while at Yale University, from which she received a liberal arts degree and a master"s degree in music (1977). Following Yale, Bloom relocated to New York City.
There she founded Outline Records and released some recordings under that label.
She has worked with Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte, Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Haden, Bob Brookmeyer, Julian Priester, Jay Clayton, Fred Hersch, Jin Hi Kim, and Minister Xiao-Fen. She is noted for her use of live electronics, using a foot pedal to trigger various electronic effects that alter the sound of her saxophone, at times creating the illusion of an orchestra of soprano saxophones.
She was the first musician to be commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Art Program. In 1989 she created three original musical compositions: Most Distant Galaxy, for soprano saxophone and live electronics, prepared tape, bass, drums, and electroacoustic percussion.
Fire & Imagination, for soprano saxophone, improvisors, and chamber orchestra.
And Beyond the Sky, for wind ensemble. The asteroid 6083 Janeirabloom was named after her. In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition.
Recent collaborations include live performances and recordings with the underground New York orchestra M"Lumbo.
Bloom is a core faculty member at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City"s Greenwich Village.
Selected discography Mighty Lights (with Fred Hersch, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell), 1982 As One (JMT, 1985) with Fred Hersch Jazzantiqua (1983) with Fredrick Hand Art & Aviation (on electronic saxophone, with Kenny Wheeler, Ron Horton, Rufus Reid), 1992 The Red Quartets (with Fred Hersch), 1999 Chasing Paint (with Fred Hersch, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte), 2003 Like Silver, Like Song, 2004 Mental Weather (with Dawn Clement, Matt Wilson, and Mark Helias), 2008 Popular Science (with M'Lumbo), 2013 Sixteen Sunsets, 2013.