Jaimie Branch

Jaimie Branch

Genres: jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, trumpet, free jazz, spiritual jazz

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About Jaimie Branch

Jaimie Breezy Branch (17 June 1983 - 22 August 2022) was an American trumpetist and electrician in jazz and improvisational music. Branch was raised in Red Hook, Brooklyn and at nine years old she started playing the trumpet. At 14 years old she moved to Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago, before attending the New England Conservatory of Music (completed in 2005). Later she moved back to Chicago, working as a musician, organizer and sound engineer in the local music environment, including Jason Ajemian (The Art of Dying, 2006), Keefe Jackson's Prosjekt Prosjekt (Just Like This, 2007), and Tim Daisy's New Fracture Quartet (1,000 Lights, 2008), Anton Hatwich, and Ken Vandermark. She performed in Chicago and New York with her trio Princess, Princess, including bassist Toby Summerfield and drummer Frank Rosaly, in addition to trios with Tim Daisy/Daniel Levin, Matt Schneider/Jason Adasiewicz, and Chris Velkommen/Sam Weinberg. Together with Jason Stein, Jeb Bishop, and Jason Roebke, she founded the band Block and Tackle. To jazz she contributed on five albums between 2006 and 2008. In 2012 Branch moved to Baltimore, where she earned a master's degree in Jazz performance at Towson University. At this time, she founded the record label Pionic Records which released the music of her group Bomb Shelter. In New York she worked with Brandon Lopez, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Mike Stolthet among others. In addition, she performed on albums with the independent rock groups Never Enough Hope, Local H, and The Atlas Moth. She worked in a quartet with Chad Taylor (drums), Jason Ajemian (Bass), and Tomeka Reid (Cello); as well as with Brandon Lopez, Mike Pride, Shayna Dulberger, and Weasel Walter; and with Yoni Kretzmer and Tobey Cederberg. She named Don Cherry, Axel Dörner, Booker Little, and Miles Davis among her musical ideals. In 2017 she released her debut solo album, Fly or Die, with Tomeka Reid, Jason Ajemian, Chad Taylor, Matt Schneider (guitar), Ben Lamar Gay, and Josh Berman (cornet) contributing as guest artists. It was chosen as one of NPR Music's Top 50 Albums of 2017. She followed with the album FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise in 2019 and the live album FLY or DIE LIVE in 2021. Branch was also one half of the experimental synthesizer-inflected jazz duo Anteloper, which she formed with Jason Nazary. Branch died at home in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn on August 22, 2022, at the age of 39, from an accidental drug overdose. Her final album, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)), was released posthumously on August 25, 2023.

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