Jaimie Branch
Jaimie Branch (born June 17, 1983 ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( trumpet , electronics).
Live and act
Branch began playing the trumpet at the age of nine and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2005; afterwards she lived in Chicago and worked as a musician, organizer and sound engineer in the local music scene. a. with Jason Ajemian ( The Art of Dying , 2006), Keefe Jackson 's Project Project ( Just Like This , 2007), Tim Daisys New Fracture Quartet ( 1,000 Lights , 2008), Anton Hatwich and Ken Vandermark ; she performed in Chicago and New York with her trio Princess, Princess (with bassist Toby Summerfield and drummer Frank Rosaly ), also in trio constellations with Tim Daisy / Daniel Levin , Matt Schneider / Jason Adasiewicz , and with Chris Welcome / Sam Weinberg up. With Jason Stein , Jeb Bishop and Jason Roebke she founded the group Block and Tackle . In the field of jazz, she was involved in five recording sessions between 2006 and 2008.
In 2012 she moved to Baltimore , where she earned a Masters in Jazz Performance from Towson University . During this time she founded the record label Pionic Records, on which she released her music in vinyl pressings and appeared with her formation Bomb Shelter . In New York City she worked a. a. with Brandon Lopez , Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mike Pride . She also worked in the independent rock formations Never Enough Hope, Local H and Atlas Math in recording sessions. She is currently working with her own quartet, which includes Chad Taylor (drums), Jason Ajemian (bass) and Lester St. Louis (cello), as well as Brandon Lopez, Mike Pride, Shayna Dulberger and Weasel Walter and Yoni Kretzmer and Tobey Cederberg . She counts Don Cherry , Axel Dörner , Booker Little and Miles Davis among her musical influences . In 2017 she released her debut album Fly or Die , on which Tomeka Reid, Jason Ajemian, Chad Taylor and guest musicians Matt Schneider (guitar), Ben LaMar Gay and Josh Berman (cornet) had collaborated. At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 she was the winner in the category “best trumpeter (rising star)”.
Discographic notes
- Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This ( Delmark Records , 2007), with Dave Rempis , Guillermo Gregorio , Anton Hatwich , Jason Stein , James Falzone , Frank Rosaly, Josh Berman , Jeb Bishop , Nick Broste , Marc Unternährer
- New Fracture Quartet: 1,000 Lights (Multicultural Project, 2008), with Nate McBride , Tim Daisy, Dave Miller
- Predella Group; Strade D'Acqua / Roads of Water (Multikulti Project, 2010), with Nate McBride, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tim Daisy, Jeff Parker, Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop
- Bullet Hell: Smart Bombs (Pionic Records, 2013), with Jacob Kart, Theodore Darst
- Fly or Die (International Anthem, 2017), with Tomeka Reid and Chad Taylor
- Fly or Die II - Bird Dogs of Paradise (International Anthem, 2019), with Lester St. Louis , Jason Ajemian , Chad Taylor
Web links
- Web presence
- Jaimie Branch at Allmusic (English)
- Jaimie Branch at Discogs (English)
- Interview in Jazz Right Now (2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Margasak: Branching Out (2007) in Chicago Reader
- ^ Jaimie Branch: one of the most thrilling new voices of the New York avant-garde: Video. JazzBluesNews.space, October 27, 2017, accessed May 18, 2019 .
- ^ Event information 2008 ( Memento from November 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ JazzTimes - Volume 38, Issues 6-10, 2008
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 18, 2016)
- ↑ Line-up: Jarrett Gilgore (alto saxophone), Alan Munshower (drums), Kevin Davis (cello), Chris Pumphrey (Fender-Rhodes), Toby Summerfield (bass)
- ↑ Brief portrait at Experimental sound studio ( Memento from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Event information on Tomeka Reid's website
- ↑ Interview in Jazz Right Now (2016) ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Branch, Jaimie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1983 |