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Jane Ira Bloom, a “mover and shaker”—literally—in the use of both electronics and movement in jazz, was awarded soprano sax of the year by the Jazz Journalists Award in 2001, the Charlie Parker Fellowship for Jazz Innovation, and the International Women in Jazz Jazz Masters Award. But her proudest accomplishment is that she is the first musician to be commissioned by NASA’s art program-—and she even has an asteroid named after...
About two jazz artists are invited each year by Harvard’s Learning from Performers series. Bloom, Harvard’s 2004-05 Kayden Visiting Artist, will be returning to Cambridge on Dec. 11, to perform with the Harvard Jazz Bands in a concert honoring Steve Lacy, the late tenor saxophonist...
Everett invited Bloom to Harvard because he wanted the members of the Jazz Bands to think more about movement. He explains that jazz had its origins in dance during the big band era, and that Bloom combines traditional features of jazz, like improvisation, with movement...
Everett started the Harvard Jazz Band program in 1971, a time when fusion jazz was favored over the traditional jazz of the 1930s. He was surprised that Harvard did not have an organized jazz band, and believed that jazz had a great social, economic, as well as music influence on American culture. He emphasized that improvisation is what unites all of jazz and that it is a “point of personality or vocabulary...
...They’re creating a language,” says Monday Jazz Band alto saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08 after the demonstration, voicing this reoccurring metaphor for improvisation. “I hear music, in general as a language. I can listen to sounds of the world and hear it. Composition is defined as sounds arranged by people, but everywhere sounds are arranged...