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| For Your Consideration: Jane Ira Bloom "Sixteen Sunsets" For your Grammy consideration Jane Ira Bloom "Sixteen Sunsets" FIRST ROUND GRAMMY SUBMISSIONS Best Improvised Jazz Solo "Left Alone" & "Gershwin's Skyline/ I Loves You Porgy" Best Jazz Instrumental Album "Sixteen Sunsets" Best Instrumental Jazz Composition "Bird Experiencing Light" & "What She Wanted" Best Jazz Arrangement "For All We Know" & "Gershwin's Skyline/ I Loves You Porgy" Best Engineered Album, Non Classical Jim Anderson (engineer) & Alan Silverman (mastering engineer) Award winning soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has always had a special feeling for ballad performances and she's released a project that showcases her expressive interpretations of American songbook standards and slow tempo originals. Sixteen Sunsets is her first all-ballads album, her 15th album as leader and fifth recording on the Outline label. The project pairs Bloom with long-time bandmates Cameron Brown on bass, drummer Matt Wilson, and newcomer pianist Dominic Fallacaro. She had been working on this slow tempo repertoire in concerts in NYC in the two years since her last "Wingwalker" release and then brought this band together to record. Sixteen Sunsets was also recorded in 5.1 high resolution surround sound at Avatar Studio B in NYC with renowned audio engineer and co-producer Jim Anderson for which it received a 2014 Grammy nomination. The album features nine American songbook classics including Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" and Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight" in addition to five originals from Bloom's own ballad book. Photographic legend Jay Maisel contributed the breathtaking image for the album cover artwork. "I grew up listening to these songs and knowing the lyrics. They were a part of my earliest listening experiences so playing them is like breathing to me. As time's gone by it's been easier to let the meaning of the songs come through the horn." - JI Bloom Bloom has been developing her unique voice on the soprano sax for over 30 years. She's a seven-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Award for Soprano Saxophone, 2014 Downbeat Critics Poll for soprano sax and recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship. Her music is lyrical and provocative. "Absolutely Mesmerizing!" -John Henry/Audiophile Audition "Jazz Mastery, Undiluted…some of the greatest ballad performances I have ever heard." -Steve Elman, The Arts Fuse "one of the most gorgeous tones and hauntingly lyrical ballad conceptions of any soprano saxophonist" -Kevin Whitehead write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |