Jazz Articles about Jaimie Branch

About Jaimie Branch

Radio & Podcasts

Song for My Father in Late June - Celebrating Fathers Day and Summer Solstice

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 29, 2020

The Fathers Day/Summer Solstice/Juneteenth broadcast included new releases from drummer Gayelynn McKinney, vocalists Linda Lavin and Sue Anne Gershenzon, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Roy Ayers, with birthday shoutouts to Cy Coleman, Sammy Cahn, Jaimie Branch, Alicia Olatuja, Migiwa Miyajima, leader of the Miggy Augmented Orchestra, Lolly Allen and Jenny Scheinman. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music in this time of lockdown. Playlist Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli “Pick Yourself ...

Album Review

Jeremy Cunningham: The Weather Up There

Read "The Weather Up There" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 22, 2020

The complex landscape of human emotions is still vastly uncharted, but every true work of art adds a little piece to the puzzle. This can be done in many ways, but it is rare that an album connects emotion with complex layers of memory, interpersonal relations, politics and societal structures. Nevertheless, this is what drummer and composer Jeremy Cunningham's album does. In a statement, Cunningham explains the background: “I wrote The Weather Up There to confront the ...

Album Review

Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise

Read "Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise" reviewed by Paolo Marra

by Paolo Marra
February 3, 2020

Andare oltre i confini musicali e geografici, sfidandoli prima e abbattendoli dopo, questa è l'essenza della musica di Jaimie Branch, giovane trombettista della scena jazz di Chicago e New York. Il suo stile unico rapppresenta la perfetta incarnazione del corso jazzistico del nuovo millennio in cui confluiscono sperimentazione avanguardistica, punk, free-jazz, elettronica, indie-rock e soprattutto presa di coscienza della propria identità culturale, nera o ispanica che sia, con una forte implicazione politico sociale. A fine 2019 è ...

Radio & Podcasts

Miles Davis & Chet Baker

by Joe Dimino
January 19, 2020

As we kick off our first show of 2020, we give you the talented trumpeter Jaimie Branch as she infuses her modern blend of jazz into the lexicon. From there, we dig into new releases from Robert Walter, Mike Clark and Doug Stone. We also look into the past with legends Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Maynard Ferguson and Billie Holiday. Playlist Jaimie Branch “Theme 001" Fly or Die (International Anthem) 00:00 Host talks 4:15 Miles Davis “Stella By ...

Album Review

Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise

Read "Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 10, 2019

Over a relatively short career, the adventurous composer and trumpeter Jaimie Branch has developed a mature and singular style with a politically informed dimension. On her second album as leader, she and her band create tense atmospheres that brim with creativity and spontaneity. The two part “Prayer For Amerikkka" opens with bassist Jason Ajemian's dark, reverberating thumps. These set an expectant mood that drummer Chad Taylor enhances. Branch blows longing, melancholic notes that rise and fall over the ...

Live Review

Jaimie Branch Quartet a Jazz En Rose, Verona

by Angelo Leonardi
November 27, 2019

Jaimie Branch Quartet Jazz En Rose 2019/20 Teatro Ristori Verona 19.11.2019 Dopo le ottime accoglienze ricevute nel tour autunnale dello scorso anno, Jaimie Branch è tornata col suo quartetto nel Vecchio Continente per presentare le composizioni del secondo album Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise pubblicato l'11 di ottobre di quest'anno. Il nuovo tour ha toccato principalmente l'Europa centrale (Belgio, Germania, Polonia, Olanda, Francia) con una puntata al Total Refreshment Centre ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jaimie Branch, Nick Dunston, Malleus Trio, Quartet Next and More

by Maurice Hogue
October 16, 2019

Trumpeter Jaimie Branch brings her 'tude and much-praised talent to her follow-up recording to Fly or Die in Fly Or Die II--Bird Dog of Paradise. Her music is even more incendiary as she turns her attention to the current state of political and social unrest in America. Also making debuts this week are the Malleus Trio from Vancouver with their second release Play, much-heralded bassist Nick Dunston, Chicago guitarist Dan Phillips' latest project, Quartet Next, and also with a deep ...