Jaimie Branch
Jaimie Branch (1983-2022) was an American trumpeter, composer and bandleader, born in Huntington, New York. She worked in the Chicago improvised music scene, then in Baltimore and Brooklyn, where she died aged 39. She is best known for Fly or Die, the group she led on the Chicago label International Anthem, whose 2017 debut album NPR Music placed among its 50 best albums of the year. Branch started the trumpet at nine and studied at the New England Conservatory. In Chicago she played, organized concerts and worked as a sound engineer, and in Baltimore she founded the label Pionic Records.
Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
jaimie branch’s FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise, originally released in the fall of 2019, was hugely anticipated in its time.
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Fly Or Die
In January of 2016, Jaimie Branch launched a monthly free jazz series with a new ensemble at Brooklyn’s now debunked Manhattan Inn. Sharing the first night of her series with a trio on tour from Chicago (Nick Mazzarella, Anton Hatwich and Frank Rosaly), the trumpeter Branch assembled a quartet to match: cellist Tomeka Reid, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Chad Taylor. Between visitors and expats, it was a night of performers exclusively from The Windy City. “I wanted New York to hear what Chi…
Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))
In July of 2022, just one month before Jaimie Branch’s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and artwork to…
Fly Or Die Live
Capturing a pre-Covid performance (just weeks before the pandemic really hit) in Switzerland, composer, trumpeter and singer Jaimie Branch has just released an incredible live album via International Anthem. Recorded in January 2020 at Moods in Zurich, and features live versions of tracks from Branch’s Fly Or Die Live I and II, compounded & flawlessly communicated in a singular epic of raw cosmic brilliance. It sees Branch on trumpet and vocals, Chad Taylor on drums and mbira, Lester St. Louis …
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