℗ 2018 Edition Records
| Released | August 31, 2018 |
| Duration | 47m 44s |
| Record Label | Edition Records |
| Genre | Jazz |
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1.1
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Bloomer
Tom Barford |
6:19 | |||
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1.2
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Space to Dream
Tom Barford |
5:14 | |||
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1.3
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Phizzwizard
Tom Barford |
5:49 | |||
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1.4
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F Step
Tom Barford |
10:27 | |||
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1.5
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Music for an Imagined Film
Tom Barford |
5:47 | |||
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1.6
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Razztwizzler Ahead
Tom Barford |
1:08 | |||
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1.7
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Razztwizzler
Tom Barford |
4:51 | |||
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1.8
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Ideology
Tom Barford |
2:17 | |||
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1.9
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Highly Strung Trapeze Artist
Tom Barford |
5:52 |
“We are witnessing the birth of a new star in the Jazz firmament.”
- Evan Parker
Bloomer is the debut album from Tom Barford, saxophonist, composer and winner of the 2017 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize. An instrumentalist of supreme talent and creativity, Tom won the attention of judges, lifelong Wheeler collaborator and friend Evan Parker, Edition boss Dave Stapleton and Nick Smart, Head of Jazz at Royal Academy of Music, for his originality and vision. The resulting album, Bloomer, is richly vibrant, energetic and melodic; a recording that will launch the career of this future jazz star.
The writing is wonderfully intricate and demanding and yet is exuberantly listenable, imaginative and emotionally gripping. Barford wants his composing to be both thought provoking and beautiful. This is an artist who emulates many of the same principles that Kenny Wheeler once did. Both share a kindred spirit in music making and a wonderful humility and pride in the people they make it with.
“I want the music to feel as though you’re stepping into another world”.
- Tom Barford
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Edition Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.34 -2.05 to -0.04 | -16.16 -18.76 to -13.51 | -12.93 -14.60 to -11.20 | 10 9 to 11 | |
| 1 | Bloomer | -0.33 | -14.16 | -11.2 | 9 |
| 2 | Space to Dream | -0.04 | -18.76 | -14.0 | 10 |
| 3 | Phizzwizard | -0.04 | -15.71 | -11.9 | 9 |
| 4 | F Step | -0.24 | -16.36 | -13.4 | 10 |
| 5 | Music for an Imagined Film | -0.13 | -17.40 | -14.6 | 11 |
| 6 | Razztwizzler Ahead | -2.05 | -17.17 | -13.9 | 10 |
| 7 | Razztwizzler | -0.04 | -13.51 | -11.4 | 9 |
| 8 | Ideology | -0.04 | -15.42 | -12.3 | 9 |
| 9 | Highly Strung Trapeze Artist | -0.10 | -16.91 | -13.7 | 10 |