Jane Ira Bloom News

This April, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. With International Jazz Day on April 30th our Jazz For Curious Listeners series this month focuses on international artists discussing and demonstrating jazz from around the world and culminates with an international jazz jam blowout with Jonathan Batiste on April 30th at MIST Harlem.

The Little Orchestra Society (LOS) presents TUBBY THE TUBA narrated by Patti Smith, the iconic National Book Award-winner, rock musician and poet, today, March 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

As an exciting conclusion to New York Fashion Week, students from Parsons The New School for Design, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Program will debut Reconstruction 3.0: Life is a Journey, an evening of live performances featuring original music, dance and fashion inspired by Louis Vuitton and its heritage of travel. The invitation-only performance will take place today, February 14 at the Manhattan Movement and Art Center, just a few blocks from the tents at Lincoln Center.

As an exciting conclusion to New York Fashion Week, students from Parsons The New School for Design, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Program will debut Reconstruction 3.0: Life is a Journey, an evening of live performances featuring original music, dance and fashion inspired by Louis Vuitton and its heritage of travel. The invitation-only performance will take place on February 14 at the Manhattan Movement and Art Center, just a few blocks from the tents at Lincoln Center.

Saturday, February 2, 2013 marks Symphony Space's fourth annual The Music of Now Marathon. The genre-defying eight-hour concert (4 pm - midnight) is curated by Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky and hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. From electronic experimentation to post-minimalism, spectralist sonorities to Latin jazz, the Music of Now Marathon offers an outstanding opportunity to discover a broad range of new music by emerging and established creators. Six world premieres, two US premieres, and three New York premieres will be heard.

The Little Orchestra Society (LOS) presents TUBBY THE TUBA narrated by Patti Smith, the iconic National Book Award-winner, rock musician and poet, on Saturday, March 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Soprano saxophonist/composer and former NASA artist Jane Ira Bloom brings her trio to the December concert series at The Stone curated by Min Xiao Fen & Scott Amendola. The concert is set for tonight, December 20, 2012, at 8 p.m., featuring Jane Ira Bloom on soprano saxophone, Mark Helias on bass and Bobby Previte on drums.

Soprano saxophonist/composer and former NASA artist Jane Ira Bloom brings her trio to the December concert series at The Stone curated by Min Xiao Fen & Scott Amendola. The concert is set for December 20, 2012, at 8 p.m., featuring Jane Ira Bloom on soprano saxophone, Mark Helias on bass and Bobby Previte on drums.

The 25th annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and 'Women, Music and Diplomacy' All-Star Gala Concert will be presented by the world-renowned Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, in partnership with Cadillac, this year's Presenting Sponsor, on September 22-23. Through the competition and its numerous educational programs, the Institute is committed to identifying and training the world's leading young jazz musicians who will preserve the traditions of jazz while expanding the music in new directions.

Cornish College of the Arts announces the appointment of jazz French hornist Tom Varner to the position of Assistant Professor of Jazz Performance.

For a combination of jazz dialogue, education, and live performance, look no further than the National Jazz Museum in September.

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the American Composers Orchestra will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, the culmination of a process that began with a week-long Intensive held on the Columbia University campus in July 2010.

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the American Composers Orchestra will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, the culmination of a process that began with a week-long Intensive held on the Columbia University campus in July 2010.

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the American Composers Orchestra will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, the culmination of a process that began with a week-long Intensive held on the Columbia University campus in July 2010.

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the American Composers Orchestra will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, the culmination of a process that began with a week-long Intensive held on the Columbia University campus in July 2010.

JANE IRA BLOOM Trio live at Cornelia Street Café Sun, May 22 at 8:30 pm

Jane Ira Bloom soprano sax & live electronics Mark Helias bass Bobby Previte drums

David Lopato Trio featuring Ratzo Harris - bass, Gene Jackson - drums Sat., April 9, 8pm

David Lopato Trio featuring Ratzo Harris - bass, Gene Jackson - drums Sat., April 9, 8pm