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JANE IRA BLOOM AWARDED 2007 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP  Jane
Ira Bloom an award-winning soprano saxophonist and composer who has
pioneered the use of live electronics and movement in jazz has been
awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship in music composition. The 2007
fellowship winners include 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected
from almost 2,800 applicants for awards totaling $7,600,000. Decisions
are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and
are approved by the foundation's board of trustees. Guggenheim Fellows
are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past
and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. What distinguishes
the Guggenheim Fellowship program is the wide range in interests,
age, geography, and institutions of those it selects as it considers
applications in 78 different fields from the natural sciences to the
creative arts. Since 1925, according to Foundation president Edward
Hirsch, the Foundation has granted over $256 million in Fellowships
to more than 16,250 individuals. The new fellows include writers,
playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers, choreographers,
physical and biological scientists, social scientists, and scholars
in the humanities. Scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prizewinners
appear on the roll of Fellows, which includes Ansel Adams, W.H. Auden,
Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir
Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson,
Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty
"The 5th Wheel" "the ageless Carmen deLavallade, the Lena Horne of dance, was not only as glamorous as ever (in a clinging red outfit) but was full of beans in The 5th Wheel, a vigorous head-to-head with the terrific saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom." - Robert Gottlieb/ The New York Observer
JANE IRA BLOOM RECEIVES 2007 MARY LOU WILLIAMS WOMEN IN JAZZ AWARD
"Mental Weather" Click Here to view the poster for the concert Saxophonist/ composer Jane Ira Bloom launched the release of her latest CD "Mental Weather" (Outline OTL139) at the Iridium Jazz Club on Wednesday, Jan 30th, 2008. The quartet featuring Dawn Clement (piano & Fender Rhodes), Mark Helias (bass), and Matt Wilson (drums) brought the house down for an audience filled with celebrities (comic Lewis Black, actors Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Maria Tucci, and Joe Grifasi). Photographer Matthew Sussman was there to capture it all.
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Jane Ira Bloom performed the world premiere of "The 5th Wheel", a new collaborative
work with legendary dancer/ choreographer Carmen deLavallade on Friday, September 28,
8:00pm at NY City Center’s Fall for Dance Series. "The 5th Wheel" was the latest piece
in a continuing collaboration between legendary dancer/choreographer Carmen deLavallade
and Bloom. It explored the spatial and sonic relationships between a dancer on wheels and
a jazz quartet with one musician on the loose. The music based on Bloom's original piece
"Ice Dancing" featured a quartet of jazz improvisers onstage including bassist Rufus Reid,
drummer Jerry Granelli, and pianist Dawn Clement and was the springboard for deLavallade's
playful and evocative choreography. Bloom & deLavallade also appeared on a panel entitled
"Dance & Music: A Dynamic Dialogue" moderated by critic John Rockwell on Thursday, Sept 27,
6:30 – 7:30pm at City Center Studios, 130 West 56th St.
Saxophonist/ composer Jane Ira Bloom has been selected for the 2007 Mary Lou Women
in Jazz Award given by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
As the recipient of the award for her lifetime of service to jazz,
Bloom will be publicly recognized at the Kennedy Center's Terrace
Theater on Friday, May 11, 2007, as part of the 12th Annual Mary Lou
Williams Women in Jazz Festival. Jane Ira Bloom is recognized as a
pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz. As a
bandleader, Bloom has recorded more then 12 albums. A strong visual
thinker and a cinematic stylist, Bloom's affinity for other art forms
such as painting, film, theater, and dance has both enriched her music
and expanded her creative projects across the arts. The Kennedy Center
established the award in 1996 in honor of Mary Lou Williams for her
work as "a pianist, composer, arranger, teacher, mentor, and
humanitarian, who left her mark on nearly every aspect of jazz, defying
gender, race, and category with her wide-ranging gifts." Prior
recipients of the award include Cobi Narita, Shirley Scott, Melba
Liston, Vi Redd, Carline Ray, Marian McPartland and Toshiko Akiyoshi.
