Jaimie Branch

Jaimie Breezy Branch (born June 17, 1983)[1][2][3] is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

Band leader Mars Williams and his project are interpreting traditional Christmas songs and tunes of Albert Ayler at Club W71 concert

Biography

Branch was born in Huntington, New York (Long Island) and started playing trumpet at age nine when she moved to Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music (graduating in 2005).

Later, Branch moved back to Chicago, working as a musician, organizer, and sound engineer on the local music scene, including with Jason Ajemian (on The Art of Dying, 2006), Keefe Jackson's Project Project (on Just Like This, 2007), and Tim Daisy' s New Fracture Quartet (on 1000 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, and in trios with Tim Daisy and Daniel Levin,[4] Matt Schneider, and Jason Adasiewicz,[5] and with Chris Velkommen and Sam Weinberg. Together with Jason Stein, Jeb Bishop, and Jason Roebke, she founded the band Block and Tackle. She played on five albums between 2006 and 2008.[6]

In 2012 Branch moved to Baltimore, where she worked toward a master's degree in Jazz performance from Towson University. At this time she also founded the record label Pionic Records, which released the music of her group Bomb Shelter.[7] In 2015 Branch moved to New York, where she has worked with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mike Pride among others.[2][8] In addition, she performed on albums with the independent rock groups Never Enough Hope, Local H and Atlas Math. As of 2016, she worked in a quartet with Chad Taylor (drums), Jason Ajemian (bass) and Tomeka Reid (cello),[9] as well as with Mike Pride, Shayna Dulberger and Weasel Walter, and with Yoni Kretzmer and Tobey Cederberg. In 2017 she released her debut solo album, Fly or Die, with Tomeka Reid, Jason Ajemian, Chad Taylor, Matt Schneider (guitar), Ben LaMar Gay, and Josh Berman (cornet).[3]

Branch has cited Don Cherry, Axel Dörner, Booker Little, and Miles Davis among her musical influences.[10]

Discography (in selection)

Albums as bandleader
  • 2017: Fly or Die (International Anthem Recording Co.)[2][11]
  • 2019: Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (International Anthem Recording Co.)[11]

Collaborations
Keefe Jacksons Project, with Dave Rempis, Guillermo Gregorio, Anton Hatwich, Jason Stein, James Falzone, Frank Rosaly, Josh Berman, Jeb Bishop, Nick Broste, and Marc Unternährer
New Fracture Quartet, with Nate McBride, Tim Daisy, and Dave Miller
  • 2008: 1,000 Lights (Multikulti Project)
Predella Group, with Nate McBride, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tim Daisy, Jeff Parker, Ken Vandermark, and Jeb Bishop
  • 2010: Strade D ' Acqua / Roads of Water (Multikulti Project)
Bullet Hell, with Jakob Kart and Theodore Representerer
  • 2013: Smart Bombs (Pionic Records)
Beyond All Things, with Chris Welcome (bandleader) and others
  • 2018: Live at the Bushwick Series (gaucimusic)
Anteloper, with Jason Nazary[12][13]
  • 2018: Kudu (International Anthem Recording Co.)[11]
  • 2020: Tour Beats Vol. 1 (International Anthem Recording Co.)[11]
Party Knüllers X Jaimie Branch
  • 2019: Live at la Casa (Bandcamp, digital only)
Ig Henneman, Jaimie Branch & Anne La Berge
  • 2019: Dropping Stuff and Other Folk Songs (Relative Pitch Records)
An Unruly Manifesto, with James Brandon Lewis (bandleader) and others
  • 2019: An Unruly Manifesto (Relative Pitch Records)

References
  1. Margasak, Peter (2007-10-23). "Branching out". ChicagoReader.com. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  2. Brady, Shaun (2017-10-26). "Jaimie Branch: Chicago State of Mind". JazzTimes.com. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  3. "Jaimie Branch: one of the most thrilling new voices of the New York avant-garde: Video". JazzBluesNews.space. 2017-10-27. Archived from the original on 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  4. "Event note 2008". Archived from the original on 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  5. Jazz Times - Volume 38, Issues 6-10, 2008
  6. Herren, Tom. The Jazz Discography online (retrieved July 18, 2016)
  7. Cast: Jarrett Gilgore (Alto Saxophone), Alan Munshower (Drums), Kevin Davis (Cello), Chris Pumphrey (Fender-Rhodes), Toby Summerfield (Bass)
  8. Short profile of Experimental sound studio Archived 2016-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Event notice on the site of Tomeka Reid
  10. "Intervju i Jazz Akkurat Nå (2016)". Archived from the original on 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  11. "International Anthem Recording Co". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  12. Margasak, Peter (2018-04-20). "As Anteloper, Jaimie Branch and Jason Nazary push in a bruising, electronics-kissed direction". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  13. "Jason Nazary". Discography. Discogs.com. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.