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| "Dizzy’s Club - Jazz at Lincoln Center presents The Jamie Baum Septet+ w/Special Guest Aubrey Johnson on February 28th” "Jamie Baum's ambitious arrangements captivated the audience with a first-class band of eight members comprising some of the finest NY-based musicians" - Pascal Dorban, Jazz Journal (UK) Tampere Jazz Happening 2018 "A New York flutist, Ms. Baum has been recording with expanded small bands since the late '90s; she's into tone color and timbre and the blending of languages, jazz, and 20th-century classical and Afro-Latin music. But she's got an elegantly persuasive composing hand...her composing ideas have gotten particularly strong." - Ben Ratliff, New York TImes "The biggest surprise of the events of Sep. 22 was a name new to me, Jamie Baum, a flute player whose imagination is as big as the world. It was the most extraordinary music of the festival…" - Richard S. Ginell, Journal of Music Critics Assoc. Monterey Jazz Festival 2018 The newest project by composer/flutist Jamie Baum, composed for her critically-acclaimed Jamie Baum Septet+ and guest vocalist, utilizes texts by women poets (i.e., Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, Tracy K. Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, etc.) in a modern jazz setting to illustrate the palpable, personal and communal experience of living in the time of Covid-19 (and simultaneous socio-political movement) and its abrupt transformation of our world. From her Hell's Kitchen, NYC perspective (initially the US "epicenter" of Covid-19), Baum's compositions, like the poems themselves, paint an emotionally charged landscape, suggesting symbolically and vividly how we arrived at this moment and how we might manage, learn and emerge from the experience, while offering solace and an uplifting, mesmerizing experience. write your comments about the article :: © 2022 Jazz News :: home page |