Jamie Baum has long been recognized as a virtuoso flutist, but what she establishes on In This Life, once and for all, is her absolute authority as a composer. JON GARELICK JAZZIZ Baum exhibits remarkable artistic facility as composer/arranger/bandleader/flutist DAN OUELLETTE DOWNBEAT 2014 Guggenheim Fellow FLUTIST JAMIE BAUM COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY NYC flutist/composer/recording artist/clinician, Jamie Baum, has toured the US, and over 30 countries performing at major festivals and concert halls includ- ing The North Sea Jazz Festival, Guimaraes Jazz Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, “jaZZ & beyond Improvised Music Festival”; Sedutirol, Braga, Oeiras, Bermuda, Edinburgh, Friehoffer, Winter JazzFest and JVC Festivals. She has performed with artists as renown and diverse as George Russell, Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Mick Goodrick, Tom Harrell and Kenny Barron to Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch, Uri Caine, Ralph Alessi, Leni Stern, Jane Bunnett, David Binney, V.M Bhatt, Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith. Though focusing primarily on jazz, she has been involved in several projects, performances and tours performing classical, new music, Brazilian and Latin music. Receiving critical praise for five CD’s as a leader with her sixth, Bridges due out in 2017, Sight Unheard (w/Dave Douglas, Kenny Werner), Moving Forward, Standing Still (w/Ralph Alessi, George Colligan) and her 2013 Sunnyside Records release In This Life (w/Amir ElSaffar, John Escreet) all received four stars from DownBeat and made several “Best CDs of the Year” lists. Inch By Inch, by the cooperative band Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project (w/ Jerome Harris, George Schuller), out May 2014 (GM Recordings) also received four stars from DownBeat. Recordings as sidewoman include those by Dave Binney, George Colligan, Ursel Schlicht, Glenn White, Frank Carlberg, Patrizia Scascitelli, Taylor Haskins, Steve Lampert, Monika Herzig, Louise Rogers, Sarah McKenzie, Brian Landrus, etc. Ms. Baum has been in the DownBeat Critics Polls annually since 1998, winning #3 in the 2016 Top Flutists category and # 1 Rising Star Flutist in 2012, and was named a “Major New International Talent” in 2015 lists by both “Musica Jazz” and “Jazzit” (Italy). She was included in the Huffington Post’s “Twenty five Great Jazz Flute Performances” and has appeared in both the JazzTimes (’14) and NPR Critics Polls (’13). She was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for “Flutist of the Year“ eight times, including 2015 and her band The Jamie Baum Septet+ was also nominated in 2014 as “Best Midsize Ensemble of the Year” - in the same list with only two other bands -The Wayne Shorter Quartet and Steve Coleman and Five Elements! Among the many awards for her composing, Baum was awarded the 2014 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and was selected a 2014-15 Norman Stevens Fellow during her MacDowell Colony residency. She won the ‘99 International Jazz Composers Alliance Award, the 2010 CAP Award (American Music Center), the prestigious 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Award and the 2007 Encore Award, both components of the Doris Duke/Chamber Music America Jazz Ensembles Project. Media attention for In This Life brought features on WBGO’s RADAR and NPR’s All Things Considered, reviews in The New York Times, DownBeat, JazzTimes, All About Jazz, etc., making the “Best CDs of 2013” on lists including The Boston Globe, ITunes, Rhapsody.com, EMusic,com and Francis Davis’ NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. Ms. Baum was also featured in a two-page article in the September 2014 JazzTimes issue. Through a highly competitive auditioning process, Jamie was chosen to tour for the DOS/Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador program from ’99-’03 as well as several later tours sponsored by the US State Department in South America, Europe and South Asia. Aside from leading both her Septet+ (since ’99) and Short Stories (since 2015) and co-leading Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project, she is involved in several other projects either as co-leader or side-woman, including The Richie Beirach/ Jamie Baum Duo and Far Cry Flutes featuring Robert Dick. Ms. Baum has been on the faculty of the jazz department at Manhattan School of Music since 2007, on the adjunct faculty roster at the New School University since 2004 and taught at Berklee College of Music (2011-2013). A clinician for Altus Flutes/KHS America, they have sponsored her innovative, pioneering clinic “A Fear Free Approach to Improvisation for the Classically-Trained Musician”™ at colleges, conservatories, Full bio & promo materials available at: festivals, flute clubs and “music and art” schools worldwide since 1993. WWW.JAMIEBAUM.COM 1 NUS R AT 2 T H E MEETI NG ( TANA DER Y NA ) 3 A N T S A ND O THER FA I T H F UL BEINGS 4 IN A N O T H E R LIF E 5 M O NKE Y S O F GO K A RNA F O RES T 6 WHILE W E A RE HERE ( FOR ELI SE NEEDELL BAB C OCK) 7 R ICH IE’S L AMENT ( FOR RI C H IE BEIR A C H ) 8 T H E G AME 9 IN A NUT SHELL 10 INNER V O I CES 11 S WEET PA I N / NUSR AT ALL ARRANGEMENTS BY JAMIE BAUM ALL COMPOSITIONS BY JAMIE BAUM © 2013 LYNNJAM MUSIC BMI, EXCEPT TRACK 8 BY NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & TRACK 11 BY NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN / MICHAEL BROOK IN THIS LIFE SUNNYSIDE Flutist-Composer Jamie Baum explores her passion for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, informed by travels in South Asia, revealing her most inspired work to date on In This Life. THE JAMIE BAUM SEPTET+ Jamie Baum - FLUTES The Jamie Baum Septet+, formed in ’99, boasts three Amir Elsaffar - TRUMPET stellar recordings, several tours in Europe and the US and Douglas Yates - ALTO SAX/BASS CLARINET includes some of the most exciting musicians on the Chris Komer - FRENCH HORN scene today. They each contribute their own unique voice Brad Shepik - GUITAR to her compositions and arrangements which have been John Escreet - PIANO called "elegantly persuasive" (The New York Times), Zack Lober - BASS “ingenious” (Village Voice), "enthralling" (JazzTimes) and Jeff Hirshfield - DRUMS “gorgeous” (TimeOut NY). The Septet+ was nominated as 2014 "Best Midsize Ensemble of the Year" in the same list In This Life (out 10/8/13) was produced by Jamie Baum, with only two other bands…The Wayne Shorter Quartet Taylor Haskins, Richie Beirach & Tyler McDiarmid. and Steve Coleman and Five Elements! EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - François Zalacain (SUNNYSIDE) OTHER RECORDINGS BY JAMIE BAUM Solace Moving Forward, Sight Unheard Undercurrents SUNNYSIDE Standing Still GM RECORDINGS KONNEX 2008 1997 1993 OMNITONE 2004 THE JAMIE BAUM SEPTET THE JAMIE BAUM SEPTET JAMIE BAUM THE JAMIE BAUM GROUP FEATURING FEATURING FEATURING FEATURING Ralph Alessi Ralph Alessi Dave Douglas Dave Douglas Doug Yates Doug Yates Kenny Werner Randy Brecker Vincent Chancey Tom Varner Roberta Piket Vic Juris George Colligan George Colligan Drew Gress Salvatore Bonafede Johannes Weidenmueller Drew Gress Jeff Hirshfield Jay Anderson Jeff Hirshfield Jeff Hirshfield Jeff Hirshfield OTHER PROJECTS JAMIE BAUM AND SHORT STORIES Ms. Baum, known for her award-winning Septet+ featuring her global-influenced and long-form compositions, formed Short Stories to compliment and expand her palette. With an emphasis on improvisation, her inspiration came from the short but eloquent compositions by such jazz icons as Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Combined with the excitement and drive of the modern “jazz standard”, Baum strives to compose “short stories” that set the tone for this unique instrumentation and top-flight group of musicians. Short Stories debuted in January, 2015, as part of Jazz Resolutions 2015 during the NYC APAP/Winter JazzFest, and was filmed by the French Network Mezzo/Kidem for broadcast. Performances have included NYC’s Jazz Gallery, Cornelia St. Cafe, St. Peter’s “Jazz on The Plaza” and tours in the US and Canada. Short Stories, with a core quartet and recurring guests creating a modular group and concept, features Andy Milne, Joe Martin and Jeff Hirshfield with rotating members harmonica wizard Gregoire Maret, guitarists Gilad Hekselman and Nir Felder, and saxophonist Ben Wendel. YARD BYARD: THE JAKI BYARD PROJECT ...exploring the music of pianist/bandleader/educator Jaki Byard (1922-1999) Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project features Jamie Baum - flutes, Adam Kolker - sax/clarinets, Jerome Harris - guitar, Essiet Essiet - bass and George Schuller - drums. These long-time friends and fellow New England Conservatory alumni teamed up in 2010 to pool several of former teacher Jaki Byard’s old charts, dust them off, and bring them back to life. This cooperative group’s highly anticipated CD, Inch By Inch on Gunther Schuller’s GM Recordings, came out in 2014 receiving four stars from DownBeat. Highlight performances include the Kennedy Center’s KC Jazz Club, Dizzy’s Jazz Club at Lincoln Center Jazz and the WPI Jaki Byard Symposium. The music was all Byard’s, played lovingly and a bit loosely...Most of the songs in the first set were fine examples of standard form gone just slightly haywire. The absence of a pianist in the group is good strategy... Nate Chinen NEW YORK TIMES THE JAMIE BAUM QUARTET/QUINTET In addition to her Septet+ and Short Stories bands, Baum has continually performed with her own Quartet (or Quintet) throughout her career as a jazz soloist using the traditional jazz format of horn player, piano, bass and drums. The music ranges from arrangements of classic and modern jazz tunes to originals, and depending on the particularly type of performance and venue size, Jamie will often add a fifth musician for the quintet. Recent performances include the 2016 Guimaraes Jazz Festival (Portugal), JazzMandu Festival (Nepal), Bogui (Madrid), Nova Jazz Cava (Spain), Pizza Express & Vortex (London), Blue Whale (LA), Torino Jazz Club (Italy), The Rex (Toronto), Birdland (NYC), etc.