Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOON-TO-BE Jazz Great Jane Ira Bloom looked at home on the other side of the music stands last Wednesday night, walking about the Harvard Jazz Band's practice room, giving direction and criticism to some of the College's top musicians. Nonetheless, it hasn't been many years since she was on the receiving end of workshops in basement rehearsal rooms, as a Yale undergrad...
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...
Bloom, who will visit the campus through the Learning From Performers Series sponsored by the Office of the Arts, will join a regular rehearsal of the Harvard Jazz Band Wednesday evening. The saxophonist will also conduct a session open to other musicians later that night...
Houn, who calls himself a "composer/musician/writer/activist", has recorded two successful jazz albums which combine strains of African and Asian music. His essays and poems have been published in major Asian American magazines...