Jane Ira Bloom (born January 12, 1955) is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.
[4] in 1989 she created three original musical compositions: Most Distant Galaxy, for soprano saxophone and live electronics, prepared tape, bass, drums, and electroacoustic percussion; Fire & Imagination, for soprano saxophone, improvisors, and chamber orchestra; and Beyond the Sky, for wind ensemble.
[8] Bloom is a tenured professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City's Greenwich Village.
[10] Bloom won the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works award in 2015 for a new composition inspired by the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson.
[11] The resulting work, entitled "Wild Lines" premiered in 2016 to positive reviews.