David Bloom

David M. Bloom is an American guitarist, flautist, composer/arranger/producer, educator, author, and director. Bloom founded the Bloom School of Jazz in Chicago where he continues to teach. 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 . Bloom authors jazz instruction books under his own Bloom School of Jazz Publishing which is distributed by Hal Leonard . Along with composing, arranging, writing, and directing The Bloom School of Jazz, Bloom directs documentary films about essential human values. Bloom's father was the late educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom , who made major contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning. David Bloom's own applications of mastery-learning have made him one of the most sought after teachers in Jazz today.

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