{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Chasing Paint | type = Studio | artist = Jane Ira Bloom | cover = Chasing Paint.jpg | alt = | released = March 4, 2003 | recorded = April 14 and May 3, 2002 | studio = The Studio, NYC | genre = Jazz | length = 50:38 | label = Arabesque<br />{{small|AJ-0158}} | producer = Jane Ira Bloom | chronology = Jane Ira Bloom | prev_title = Sometimes the Magic | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = Like Silver, Like Song | next_year = 2004 }}
'''''Chasing Paint''''', (subtitled ''Jane Ira Bloom Meets Jackson Pollock''), is an album by saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom which was recorded in 2002 and released on the Arabesque label the following year.<ref>[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Arabesque.htm Jazzlists: Arabesque Jazz discography] accessed May 22, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/jane-ira-bloom/catalog/#arabesque-jazz-aj0158 Jazzdisco: Jane Ira Bloom discography] accessed May 22, 2018</ref><ref>[http://www.janeirabloom.com/chasingpaint.html janeirabloom.com: recordings] accessed May 22, 2018</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic" /> | rev2 = ''The Buffalo News'' | rev2score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="TBN">{{cite web |last1=Simon |first1=Jeff |title=MUSIC DISCS |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/music-discs/article_0a16fb0e-d396-5830-bf9d-89ff0a137adf.html |website=The Buffalo News |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en |date=March 28, 2003}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev3Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hull |first1=Tom |title=Penguin Guide to Jazz Diffs: 7th vs. 8th Editions |url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/notes/pjazz7-8-01.php |publisher=tomhull.com |accessdate=21 July 2020}}</ref> | rev4 = Tom Hull | rev4score = A−<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Hull: Grade List: Jane Ira Bloom |url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Jane+Ira+Bloom | publisher=Tom Hull |accessdate=20 July 2020}}</ref> | rev5 =''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Cook|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|page=137|url=https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/136/mode/2up|accessdate=24 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> }} The AllMusic review by David Dupont said "With ''Chasing Paint'', Jane Ira Bloom offers a follow-up to her well-received ''Red Quartets'' session of 1999. Returning with the same cast, Bloom offers a sound portrait of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. True to her own muse, Bloom's portrait, while abstract, is impressionistic rather than expressionistic. ... With ''Chasing Paint'', Bloom creates a series of complementary pieces that have the coherence and sweep of an extended work".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=David |last=Dupont |class=album |id=mw0000593942 |title= Jane Ira Bloom: ''Chasing Paint'' – Review |accessdate=May 22, 2018}}</ref> Jeff Simon of ''The Buffalo News'' added, "...And if Pollock could come back to life one night and hear Bloom play "The Sweetest Sounds" for him, I think his furious, questing heart would melt."<ref name="TBN"/>
On ''All About Jazz'', Franz A. Matzner stated "Jane Ira Bloom's experimental homage ''Chasing Paint'' was both immediately fascinating and disturbing ... what Bloom has attempted is a translation into sound of Pollack's [sic] transmutation of sound into color and movement. The result is a series of dense, explorative compositions, the faultless execution of which delineates the thoroughly progressive and acutely perspicacious nature of Bloom’s writing",<ref name=AAJ>Matzner, F. A. [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/chasing-paint-jane-ira-bloom-meets-jackson-pollock-jane-ira-bloom-arabesque-jazz-review-by-franz-a-matzner.php All About Jazz Review], accessed May 22, 2018</ref>
In ''JazzTimes'', Nate Chinen wrote "the album conveys a meticulous air even as it heeds jazz’s freer impulses. Bloom’s soprano saxophone is characteristically fleet and full-toned, capturing all the angular caprice of a brush on canvas ... At times, Bloom’s trademark electronic effects manage to evoke a drip painting’s network of color and line. Yet even at its most elliptical, this album remains wholly approachable. Like a Pollock canvas, it needn’t be explained to be understood".<ref>Chinen, N. [https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/jane-ira-bloom-the-red-quartets/ JazzTimes Review], accessed May 22, 2018</ref>
==Track listing== All compositions by Jane Ira Bloom except where noted # "Unexpected Light" – 8:34 # "Chasing Paint" – 7:12 # "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) – 3:24 # "On Seeing JP" – 4:54 # "Many Wonders" – 6:39 # "Jackson Pollock" – 2:54 # "Alchemy" – 8:24 # "Reflections of the Big Dipper" – 4:09 # "White Light" – 4:28
==Personnel== *Jane Ira Bloom – soprano saxophone, live electronics *Fred Hersch – piano *Mark Dresser – bass *Bobby Previte – drums
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.janeirabloom.com/recordings.html}} {{Jane Ira Bloom}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Arabesque Records albums Category:Jane Ira Bloom albums Category:2003 albums