NEW YORK—Jane Ira Bloom and her quartet appeared at New York’s Baruch Performing Arts Center as part of the Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert Series. She and her group performed music from her latest recording, “Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson” (on Outline). This is a double-CD set, one with just music and the other with the musicians accompanying readings from Dickinson’s work.
Bloom plays soprano saxophone and has won numerous awards, including a Grammy this year for best surround sound album and the 2017 Downbeat International Critics Poll for soprano saxophone. One of the most animated jazz musicians, she sways and almost dances as she plays and also takes obvious pleasure in the work of her band members, who are long-term collaborators of hers.
