''Chasing Paint'', (subtitled ''Jane Ira Bloom Meets

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''), is an album by saxophonist

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which was recorded in 2002 and released on the

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label the following year.

Reception

The

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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". Jeff Simon of ''

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'' 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 ''

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'', 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
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'', 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
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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

– soprano saxophone, live electronics * Fred Hersch – piano *

Mark Dresser Mark Dresser (born September 26, 1952) is an American double bass player and composer. Career Dresser was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. In the 1970s, he was a member of Black Music Infinity led by Stanley Crouch and performed ...

– bass *

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– drums

References

External links

* {{Authority control Arabesque Records albums Jane Ira Bloom albums 2003 albums