Jamie Baum has impressed audiences, musicians and critics....

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 CD’s, 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 and 2006 annual jazz awards. She was a winner of the prestigious 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Award, a component of the Doris Duke/Chamber Music America Jazz Ensembles Project and their New Works: Encore Program grant in 2007; the 1998 through 2002 DownBeat Critic's Poll for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the 2003 through 2008 Critic's Poll Rising Star category and their 2004 through 2008 Best Flutists category. Jamie won the ‘96 JAZZIZ Woodwinds-On-Fire contest and was featured in their magazine and CD.

The recipient of the '99 International Jazz Composers Alliance/Julius Hemphill Composition Award in the Small Group category, she has also won three National Endowment for the Arts awards, two Meet The Composer grants, an NPN grant, and was an awarded "Fellow" in the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program in composition. Ms. Baum has had endorsement agreements with Haynes Flute Co. and Altus Flutes and continues to work with Altus as a clinician.

Performances at festivals include the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Rochester Jazz Festival, Bragajazz Festival (Portugal), Terrassa Jazz Festival (Barcelona), Guelph Jazz Festival (Toronto), NY's Texaco and "What is Jazz?" Knitting Factory Festivals ('93, '97, '98); the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C ('99, '00); the Freihoffer's Festival in Saratoga, the Kathmandu 2003 Jazz Festival (Nepal), the Venezuela Jazz Festival, the NYC JVC Jazz Festival (’03, ’05), "America Week" (Bangladesh), Germany's Documenta Festival, the Bermuda Jazz Festival, University of Fairbanks Alaska Jazz Festival, Capital JazzFest 2001, the East Coast Jazz Festival, Jazz India (Bombay); Festival of Nations (Paraguay & Bolivia), The Peruvian International Flute Festival; the Newark, Portsmouth, Fairbanks and Cornell University Jazz Festivals; the IAJE Convention (NYC '01); the Texas, Mid-Atlantic, Greater Boston Flute Fairs and the U.S. National Flute Association Conventions ('93, '95, '98, ’04, ‘07); New York's Festival of Women Improvisers, etc. and many colleges.

Media
Having been interviewed and performed for several live broadcasts on WGBH, WKCR, WERS, GMN, WPKN and NPR and several US, South American, and South Asian radio and TV stations, Baum is also featured in a book by Bob Bernotas called Reed All About It that includes interviews and master classes with a wide range of great musicians including George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Joe Lovano, James Moody, Robert Dick and Don Byron. The Italian flute magazine Falaut recently featured Baum in its spotlight on jazz flutists and she was featured in the August ’04 Prelude section in Jazziz and the Hearsay section of the January ’05 issue of JazzTimes. The July ‘05 issue of Jazziz, which focuses on women, includes a feature on Baum and she was the cover story in the September ’05 issue of Flute Talk. This summer will see the release of the book The Flute in Jazz: Window on World Music by Peter Westbrook, featuring Baum in the chapter on influential jazz flutists.
Education
Baum received her MM from Manhattan School of Music in jazz composition, her BM degree from New England Conservatory of Music in jazz flute/composition and briefly attended Berklee College of Music. Before entering NEC, Ms. Baum spent a year in Paris studying at Ecole Normale de Music. She has studied with Jaki Bayrd, Richie Bierach, Dave Liebman, Hubert Laws, Keith Underwood, Ransom Wilson, Robert Stallman Charlie Banacos, Rich DeRosa, W. T. McKinnley and Ludmilla Ulehla.

Teaching
In addition to teaching privately since 1981 Ms. Baum is on the faculty teaching private lessons at Manhattan School of Music and The New School University. She has also been very active giving master-classes, clinics and workshops for the past fifteen years. Aside from teaching improvisation, ear-training, compositional techniques and flute, Jamie has developed two very successful workshops: "A Fear-free Approach to Improvisation for the Classically-trained Musician" and "A Jazz Flute Survey/ Retrospective" which includes interviews with over 30 renowned flutists including living legends such as Hubert Laws, Frank Wess, Paul Horn and Herbie Mann. Each workshop has a booklet and discography to be used in a clinic or extended course.

Some of the venues where Ms. Baum has presented masterclasses and clinics include: New England Conservatory of Music, Williams College (MA), Thelonious Jazz Club (La Paz, Bolivia), the Litchfield Jazz Festival Summer Music School (CT), University of Bucaramonga (Columbia), The National Conservatory of Music (CNM) of the Dominican Republic, The Peruvian International Flute Festival, Berklee College of Music, University of Chile (Vina Del Mar & Talca), University of New Hampshire, University of Maine/Augusta, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, The National Flute Conventions ('93, '95, '98, ‘04), H & H Music Stores and Lee College (Houston), William Patterson University (NJ),etc.