# Chasing Paint > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chasing_Paint > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chasing_Paint.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Paint > Source revision: 1290900342 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Chasing Paint | type = Studio | artist = [Jane Ira Bloom](/source/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](/source/Jazz) | length = 50:38 | label = [Arabesque](/source/Arabesque_Records)
{{small|AJ-0158}} | producer = Jane Ira Bloom | chronology = [Jane Ira Bloom](/source/Jane_Ira_Bloom) | prev_title = [Sometimes the Magic](/source/Sometimes_the_Magic) | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = [Like Silver, Like Song](/source/Like_Silver%2C_Like_Song) | next_year = 2004 }} '''''Chasing Paint''''', (subtitled ''Jane Ira Bloom Meets [Jackson Pollock](/source/Jackson_Pollock)''), is an album by saxophonist [Jane Ira Bloom](/source/Jane_Ira_Bloom) which was recorded in 2002 and released on the [Arabesque](/source/Arabesque_Records) label the following year.[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Arabesque.htm Jazzlists: Arabesque Jazz discography] accessed May 22, 2018[https://www.jazzdisco.org/jane-ira-bloom/catalog/#arabesque-jazz-aj0158 Jazzdisco: Jane Ira Bloom discography] accessed May 22, 2018[http://www.janeirabloom.com/chasingpaint.html janeirabloom.com: recordings] accessed May 22, 2018 ==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}} | rev2 = ''[The Buffalo News](/source/The_Buffalo_News)'' | rev2score = {{rating|3|4}}{{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](/source/The_Buffalo_News) |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en |date=March 28, 2003}} | rev3 = ''[Penguin Guide to Jazz](/source/Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz)'' | rev3Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{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](/source/tomhull.com) |accessdate=21 July 2020}} | rev4 = [Tom Hull](/source/Tom_Hull_(critic)) | rev4score = A−{{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](/source/Tom_Hull_(critic)) |accessdate=20 July 2020}} | rev5 =''[The Penguin Guide to Jazz](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz)'' | rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{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}} }} The [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) review by David Dupont said "With ''Chasing Paint'', Jane Ira Bloom offers a follow-up to her well-received ''[Red Quartets](/source/The_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".{{AllMusic|first=David |last=Dupont |class=album |id=mw0000593942 |title= Jane Ira Bloom: ''Chasing Paint'' – Review |accessdate=May 22, 2018}} Jeff Simon of ''[The Buffalo News](/source/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." On ''[All About Jazz](/source/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",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 In ''[JazzTimes](/source/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".Chinen, N. [https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/jane-ira-bloom-the-red-quartets/ JazzTimes Review], accessed May 22, 2018 ==Track listing== All compositions by Jane Ira Bloom except where noted # "Unexpected Light" – 8:34 # "Chasing Paint" – 7:12 # "[The Sweetest Sounds](/source/The_Sweetest_Sounds_(song))" ([Richard Rodgers](/source/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](/source/Jane_Ira_Bloom) – soprano saxophone, live electronics *[Fred Hersch](/source/Fred_Hersch) – piano *[Mark Dresser](/source/Mark_Dresser) – bass *[Bobby Previte](/source/Bobby_Previte) – drums ==References== {{reflist}} ==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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Chasing Paint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Paint) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Paint?action=history)). 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