Winner, Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition, the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Award for lifetime service to jazz, Downbeat International Critics Poll & Jazz Journalists Award for soprano saxophone, the IWJ Jazz Masters Award, and the Charlie Parker Fellowship for jazz innovation. Bloom has an asteroid named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid
6083janeirabloom). Recipient of the Doris Duke Jazz New Works Award, and fellowships from the NEA, Rockerfeller, Pew & Ford Foundations. Performed, recorded, and/or collaborated with Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Fred Hersch, George Coleman, Kenny Wheeler, Julian Priester, Rufus Reid, Bob Brookmeyer, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte, Matt Wilson, Jerry Granelli, Marc Copland, Jay Clayton and Cleo Laine. Compositions & commissions for the American Composers Orchestra, St. Luke¹s Chamber Ensemble, Pilobolus & Paradigm Dance Companies, NY City Center's Fall for Dance Festival and the NASA Art Program. She has produced and recorded for CBS, ENJA, JMT, Arabesque Jazz Recordings and Artistshare. Performances at the San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, JVC Jazz Festivals; at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie
Hall, and Jazz at Lincoln Center; as well as clubs throughout New York. A new jazz festival in Brooklyn, NY featuring cutting edge woman artists was named in her honor (The 2009 Bloom Festival).