Jamie Baum & Short Stories at Jazz at Kitano

Jamie Baum, known for her award-winning Septet+ that features her global-influenced, increasingly complex 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, harmonic and motivically-packed 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 in this setting to compose or arrange short stories that set the tone for this unique instrumentation and top-flight group of musicians....

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Jamie Baum, known for her award-winning Septet+ that features her global-influenced, increasingly complex 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, harmonic and motivically-packed 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 in this setting to compose or arrange short stories that set the tone for this unique instrumentation and top-flight group of musicians.

Short Stories made its debut performance in January, 2015 at Greenwich House, NYC, as part of Jazz Resolutions 2015 during the APAP/Winter JazzFest weekend, and was filmed by Mezzo/Kidem, a French TV film crew for broadcast the foll
Jamie Baum exhibits remarkable artistic facility as composer/arranger/bandleader/flutist.
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Dan Ouellette, DownBeatBaum is an exciting musician whose playing and composing are at the heart of one of the years most innovative projects.
Chuck Berg, JazzTimes

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