Art and Aviation

Art and Aviation is an album by American saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom that was recorded in 1992 and released on the Arabesque label.

[1][2][3] The AllMusic review by David R. Adler said: "Art & Aviation is not only one of Jane Ira Bloom's finest albums, it is also a remarkably successful (and fairly early) attempt to bring electronic influences to bear on acoustic jazz.

But she veers left on many cuts, altering her soprano sax sound with live electronics ...

The complex, angular soprano/trumpet unison lines heard on many of the pieces call to mind the harmonically free sound of Ornette Coleman's early recordings with Don Cherry.

"[4] Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News noted: " Certainly, she is among the precious few to marry jazz and the sonorities of classical new music with total lack of affectation.