Saturday, October 16, 2021
7:30 PM
The series continues on Saturday, October 16, with a rare West Coast appearance by the Jamie Baum Septet+. This eight-piece group led by acclaimed flutist/composer Jamie Baum, features top players from New York City including trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and guitarist Brad Shepik. With an over 20-year history of musical exploration, the ensemble has appeared at many of the world’s leading jazz festivals and concert halls. The Septet+’s performances at the 2018 Monterey Jazz Festival earned praise as “the most extraordinary music of the festival…" and a “revelation.” A Guggenheim and MacDowell Fellow, Baum has been on the jazz faculty at the Manhattan School of Music since 2006. She has worked with artists as renowned and diverse as Paul Motian, Randy Brecker, Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch, Roy Hargrove, Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith, appearing in the DownBeat Critics Polls annually since 1998, and making the short lists in both the JazzTimes Critics and Readers Polls in addition to several international publications. She has also received critical praise for her six albums as a leader, including four with her Septet+. Featuring instrumentation including French horn and bass clarinet, the Septet+ specializes in blending jazz improvisation with Hindu, Arabic, Jewish, Nepalese, Classical and Minimalist musical traditions. DownBeat wrote, “Four stars… Always a traveler, never a tourist, Baum constructs significant harmonic relationships between jazz and some far-flung music traditions. Everything connects here: concept and execution, soloists and ensemble, Nepal and New York, spirit and flesh.” Just Jazz commented, “Music like this truly is an essential part of the future of jazz.”
