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Learning From Performers hosts an evening with soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom, known for her flexible and innovative approach to jazz. “Sometimes I throw sound around the band like paint and other times I play and feel as if I was carving silence like a sculptor,” says Bloom. Come find out just how good you have to be for the International Astronomical Union to name an asteroid after you. General admission tickets at the Harvard Box Office, $5 students and seniors, $8 regular. 8 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall. (ECMV...
...followed this immersion with a solid grounding in classical and jazz piano, then launched his career with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and later with a quintet led by saxophonist Phil Woods, with whom he continues to make appearances today. "What struck me was his depth," says Woods. "A lot of young players have university credentials but have lost touch with the street. They all sound the same. Not Bill. He really gets down deep into...
...have been snowing outside, but inside the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, a small gathering of the elderly and the youthful were alternatively startled, stunned and awed by the lecture-demonstration on jazz improvisation and movement by acclaimed soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom last Friday afternoon. Accompanied by modern dancer Peentz Dubble, and moderator Tom Everett, Director of Harvard Bands, Bloom presented “An Exploration of Improvisation,” which focused on combining physical movement and improvisation as a jazz musician in the first of Harvard’s Office for the Arts?...
...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...
...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...