Jamie Baum

NYC jazz flutist/composer/bandleader and Sunnyside Records artist Jamie Baum has toured the US and 35 countries performing at major festivals and venues, and has worked with several renown artists as diverse as Paul Motian, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrell, Dave Douglas, Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Louis Cole, Roy Hargrove, Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith. Her several awards and honors include a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, Jazz Journalists Association nominations (13 times) and annual listings in DownBeat Critics Polls (since ’98), in addition to being included in Huffington Post’s “Twenty-five Great Jazz Flute Performances” and JazzTimes’ 10: Essential Jazz Flute Albums. She’s received praise for 7 CDs as a leader, and her most recent fifth recording with Septet+ of 20 years received the coveted 5-star review., An in-demand flutist, she’s appeared on over 50 recordings as a sidewoman. Jamie toured as a US State Department - Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador (’99-’03), and has since been sponsored frequently by the State Department while on her own overseas tours. Baum is on the faculty at Manhattan School of Music jazz department (since ’06), and a clinician for Altus Flutes/KHS America (since ’95).