About the Artist

NYC jazz flutist/composer, Sunnyside Records artist and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Jamie Baum, released her seventh album, What Times Are These with The Jamie Baum Septet+ (April, 2024). Internationally recognized and listed in DownBeat Critics Polls annually since ’99, she’s toured in 35 countries and worked/recorded with several renown and diverse jazz artists ranging from Randy Brecker, Kenny Barron, Roy Hargrove, Tom Harrell and John Abercrombie to Dave Douglas, Louis Cole, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith.

Her compositional muse, The Jamie Baum Septet+ was formed in 1999, and has since produced five highly acclaimed CDs and countless performances at iconic venues and festivals worldwide. Receiving standing ovations at packed venues has become the norm for this band, creating excitement and a kaleidoscope of colors with their unusual instrumentation and NYC-style “take no prisoners” energy! In fact Richard Ginell of the Journal of Music Critics Association at the Monterey Jazz Festival 2018, wrote “It was the most extraordinary music of the festival…”