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Since then, Bloom has played the major Jazz Festivals and recorded several albums, including one with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell which won a five-star rating from Downbeat. Critic Nat Hentoff places her in Duke Ellington's "beyond category" category...
...open rehearsal--billed as an improvisation workshop--came at the end of Bloom's talk-till-you-drop day in Cambridge, courtesy of the Learning From Performers Program. She spoke about jazz with the Niemann Journalism Fellows over lunch, and Jazz Band members over dinner, as well as with WHRB and me. She proved herself an able advocate of the powerful pleasures of improvisation...
BORN and raised in nearby Newton, Massachusetts, Bloom studied music at Yale and founded the Jazz Band there. After graduating in the late '70s, she pursued her musical goals in New York City...
...future doesn't look too bleak, but Bloom says she'll always have to deal with "that radical concept"--being a female instrumentalist in the male bastion of jazz. She responds to what must be the umpteenth question on the subject first with mock agony ("I feel like a man trapped in a woman's body") but then goes on to discuss the obstacles she has faced with insight--and without self-pity...
...Bloom is at her most enthusiastic when discussing her work. She calls Modern Drama her "most ambitious project to date" in terms of orchestration and harmony and says she gives her best live performances at the Village Vanguard, her favorite New York City club...