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Artist
Jamie Baum
12+ albums
contemporary jazzjazzfluteinstrumentalUSA
about
Jamie Baum has impressed audiences, musicians and critics alike with her inventive, finely crafted compositions and commanding and atypical approach to the flute as a lead instrument. Originally from Connecticut, Baum has been living in New York for seventeen years working as a leader or sidewomen with a wide range of consummate musicians including Randy Brecker, Paul Motian, John Abercrombie, Mick Goodrick, George Russell, Donald Brown, Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, Kenny Barron, Tom Harrell, Dave Douglas, Billy Hart, Mickey Roker, Uri Caine, Ursel Schlicht, Leni Stern, V. M. Bhatt, Karaikudi Mani, Hakim Ludin, etc.; in a wide range of styles. Though focusing primarily on jazz, she has been involved in projects performing classical and new music to Brazilian, Indian and Latin music offering her ample opportunity to develop a strong personal style. Honors and Awards Jamie Baum's last two CDs, Moving Forward, Standing Still, and Solace were included in several Critics Pick lists for "Best CDs of the Year" ('04 & '08 respectively) including Jazz Times, Jazziz, All About Jazz, Jazz Improv NY and DownBeat, and she was nominated as "Flutist of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association in their 2005, 2006, 2009 & 2010 annual jazz awards. She was elected "Best Flutist of the Year" in the 2008 Jazz Station Poll (Brazil) as well as in Brazil's daily newspaper "Tribuna da Imprensa" (Press Tribune). Ms. Baum was a winner of the prestigious 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Awa
