Jamie Baum

Jamie Baum is an American flautist who has garnered praise for her promotion of the use of the flute in jazz music, and also for her cross-cultural creative projects. Mainly involved with jazz performance and composition, Baum also has increasingly explored projects, performances, and tours that engage with classical, new music, and Brazilian and Latin music. Every year since 1998, Baum has been listed in the DownBeat Critics Polls, and in 2012 she won “#1 Rising Star.”

Jamie Baum
BornConnecticut, USA
Instrumentsflute
Associated actsThe Jamie Baum Septet, The Yard Byard Project, The Richie Beirach - Jamie Baum Duo, Short Stories
Websitewww.jamiebaum.com

Biography

Baum grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut in a musical family. Baum's mother, Edith, had studied piano and trombone at Juilliard and her parents often took her to New York City for Jazz shows.[1] Baum attended the New England Conservatory of Music's "Third Stream" program that combines jazz study with the European classical music tradition and later switched and graduated from the "Jazz Department".[2] While there, Baum studied with Jaki Byard,[3] which in later years inspired her to organize the Yard Byard Project, consisting of scores that Byard had given her when she had been his student. Later, Baum received her MM in jazz composition at Manhattan School of Music and became a member of the jazz department faculty in 2007. She is a Sunnyside Records artist, touring and free-lance musician. Ms. Baum has an endorsement agreement with Altus Flutes/KHS America who support the many clinics and workshops she does worldwide. She is an adjunct in The New School University Jazz Program, on the faculty of Manhattan School of music in the jazz department and also gives private lessons and workshops on improvisation, composition and jazz flute technique. She has brought the flute into a position of greater respect as an instrument within Jazz, through her creative projects and ensembles.[4]

Career highlights
  • 2014 Baum was given a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts - Music Composition, to support writing a series of new compositions.
  • 1999 Baum founded the Jamie Baum Septet, including Ralph Alessi, George Colligan and Jeff Hirshfield.
  • 1999-2003 Baum toured South America, Europe and South Asia on behalf of the Department of State/Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador program.[5]
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References
  1. Sauro, Tony (19 November 2014). "Pioneer with a flute". San Joaquin Media Group. The Record. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_26986752/flutist-jamie-baum-making-bay-area-debut
  3. Guido Michelone. Jazz is a woman. Educatt, 2010
  4. Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Günther Huesmann. The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century. 2009
  5. http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/9121.htm
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