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Jane Ira Bloom Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson at Rizzoli Bookstore

Courtesy of Jane Ira Bloom | Posted on October 23, 2018

Where

Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway
New York, NY
Map
(212) 759-2424

Jane Ira Bloom Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson at Rizzoli Bookstore

When

Fri, November 9, 2018
8:00 pm

At Door

$20

Musicians

Jane Ira Bloom
saxophone, soprano
Deborah Rush
poet / spoken word

About

Award winning soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom presents “Wild Lines,” her project for jazz quartet and spoken word, inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, which is featured on her latest album "Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson". Bloom’s reimagining of Dickinson was ignited when she learned that the poet was a pianist and improviser, reaffirming Bloom’s intuitive connection to the jazz-like quality of Dickinson’s writing. Bloom was inspired by the “extraordinary vitality” and “the felt improvisatory impulse” in Dickinson’s language, a transcendent bond linking the poetic art of Bloom’s 19th century muse with the lyrical saxophonist and composer’s own poetically imaginative, wild lines and creative 21st century music...

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