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Essays

• 5 Things To Consider When Choosing a Jazz School
• 16 Square Feet
• A’s and F’s in Jazz Schools
• Giant Steps…Going Where?
• Hearing vs Listening
• Jazz School Experience Series Escaping Yourself to Be You (Part 1)
• Jazz School Experience Series Escaping Yourself to Be You (Part 2)
• Jazz School Experience Series Escaping Yourself to Be You (Part 3)
• Jazz School Experience Series Escaping Yourself to Be You (Part 4)
• Practice Tips: One Week To Better Solos
• Rhythm: The Grand Arbiter of Right and Wrong Notes
• Six Do’s and Don’ts for a Successful Professional Recording Session
• The 3 Speeds of Improvisation
• The Best I Can Do
• The Comping Conversation #1
• The Power of Slow: Tip for Beginning and Intermediate Players
• Top Albums and Top Songs Are Commonplace: What About Great Phrases?
• Understanding Storytelling and How it Can Dramatically Improve Your Music
• The Four Secrets of Practicing Music
• Wes Montgomery and Jazz

Articles

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Studs Terkel’s inspiring look at some jazz greats : Book review of Giants of Jazz by Studs Terkel; by David Bloom, as published in the Chicago Tribune (2003)

An impressive, edifying anthology of jazz criticism: Book review of Jazz In Search of Itself  by Larry Kart; by David Bloom as published in the Chicago Tribune (2005)

Bloom’s Laws for Effective Music Performance by David Bloom as published in Chicago Jazz Magazine (2008)

Jazz: Dead or Alive? by David Bloom as published in Chicago Jazz Magazine, September-October 2007

Escaping Yourself To Be You by David Bloom as published in Chicago Jazz Magazine (2005)

Got Melody? by David Bloom (as told to Jude Gold) as published in Guitar Player magazine (2007)

Blues for Right Nowby David Bloom (as told to Jude Gold) as published in Guitar Player magazine (2005)

Books

What is Soul?

Fire & Form Series
8 music method books published by Hal Leonard:
Minor Blues vol 1
Major Blues vol 1
Melodic Linkage
The ii-V-I Book
Melodic Chords
Rhythms Around the Body
Question and Answer Book
Ear Training