Jane Ira Bloom, born on January 12, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer. She began playing saxophone at age nine, studying under Joseph Viola from the Berklee College of Music before earning degrees from Yale University. After moving to New York City, she founded Outline Records. Bloom released her debut album Second Wind in 1980. She was the first musician commissioned by NASA's Art Program, creating three original compositions in 1989: "Most Distant Galaxy", "Fire & Imagination" and "Beyond the Sky". She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 2007. Her album Sixteen Sunsets earned a Grammy nomination for Best Surround Sound at the 56th Grammy Awards, and she won the same category at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for her album Early Americans. Bloom became a tenured professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City's Greenwich Village.
