Thu May 8
The Jamie Baum Septet+ (livestream)
7:30PM / $15 | $1.50 Fees Get Access to the Live Stream
Jamie Baum
Jamie Baum - flutes, compositions
Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet | Jaleel Shaw - alto sax | Chris Komer - French horn
Charles Altura - guitar | Nitzan Gavrieli - piano | Ricky Rodriguez - bass/e, bass |
Jeff Hirshfield - drums
Aubrey Johnson - vocals
NYC jazz flutist/composer, Sunnyside Records artist and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Jamie Baum, released her 7th album, What Times Are These with The Jamie Baum Septet+ (April, 2024). Internationally recognized and listed in DownBeat Critics Polls annually since ’99, she’s toured in 35 countries and worked/recorded with several renown and diverse jazz artists ranging from Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Mick Goodrick, Roy Hargrove, Tom Harrell and John Abercrombie to Dave Douglas, Louis Cole, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith.
Exploring and successfully incorporating influences from modern Western-classical composers - to rock and South Asian music, while expanding their sound along the way, the Septet+ was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association as 2014’s “Best Midsize Ensemble of the Year” – in the same list with only two other bands, The Wayne Shorter Quartet and Steve Coleman’s Five Elements!” Baum’s recently-released What Times Are These has received unparalleled, international acclaim including the highly-coveted-yet-infrequently-bestowed five-star review in the “jazz bible,” DownBeat Jazz Magazine. It also made several “Best Recordings of 2024” lists including DownBeat, JazzTImes (inaugural relaunch issue), The Boston Globe, AAJ, AAJ (Italy), PopMatters, The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll, etc.
For this project Baum composed stunning music highlighting the words of renown women poets including Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shihab Nye and Tracy K. Smith, reflecting our collective experience of Covid-19 and current socio/political climate.
*****(5 stars) It’s past time that Baum was elevated from the “other instruments” ranks and recognized as an important composer/leader. It’s a great album, and for its various linked messages alone, an important album. - Brian Morton, DownBeat, May 2024
Showtime: 7:30 pm ET/6:30 pm CT/5:30 pm MT/4:30 pm PT/12:30 am GMT
In-person seats: $25 / $10 full-time students with valid ID
Attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Advance sales end 1 hr before show; remaining tickets may be purchased at door.
Streaming Cost is $15
The link will be revealed 15 minutes before the show
and will remain active through May 15
Donations welcome
****(4 stars) “Editor’s Choice”...with her incredible Septet+ ensemble…on this audacious sonic journey...the instrumental pieces illustrate Baum’s remarkable ear for textural detail and her singular approach to the layering of material…one of the most powerful things you’ll hear this year.
- Peter Quinn, Jazzwise (UK), June 2024
7:30PM / $15 | $1.50 Fees Get Access to the Live Stream