Notable musicians who have attended the Bloom School include Alex Wurman, Graham Maby, Steve Rodby, Jon Weber, Cliff Colnot, Rob Parton, Mark Colby, and Rob Mazurek, with workshops from John Scofield and Mike Stern.
David Bloom's own applications of mastery-learning have made him one of the most sought after teachers in Jazz today.
At age nine, he began studying clarinet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's first clarinetist, Jerome Stowell.
He then moved back to Chicago at 11 and played folk music with his brother until fifteen, when he started a rock-blues band.
He then got a job at Harry Fistel's Chicago musicians co-op where he met an exceptional blues guitarist, William McDonald.