Jaimie Branch

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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, Loca

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FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise

Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))

Fly or Die

FLY or DIE LIVE

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take over the world

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the mountain

FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise (IA11 edition)

baba louie

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prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2

Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (World War))

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twenty-three n me, jupiter redux

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theme 001

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