NYC flutist/composer/Sunnyside Records artist, Jamie Baum, has toured the US and over 35 countries performing at major festivals, jazz venues and concert halls. She has performed with artists as renown and diverse as Paul Motian, Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Tom Harrell and Kenny Barron to Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch, Ralph Alessi, Louis Cole, Anthony Braxton, V.M Bhatt and Wadada Leo Smith. Receiving critical praise for six CD's as a leader, most garnered four stars from DownBeat and made “Best CDs of the Year” lists.

Ms. Baum has placed in DownBeat Critics Polls annually since 1998, was included in the Huffington Post’s “Twenty-five Great Jazz Flute Performances” and has appeared in several other prominent polls including the JazzTimes and NPR Critics Polls. She was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for “Flutist of the Year“ eleven times, and her band The Jamie Baum Septet+ was nominated in 2014 as "Best Midsize Ensemble of the Year”. Her many awards for composing include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, Foundation For Contemporary Arts and the International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers.

In addition to leading her Septet+ (since ’99), her “Short Stories” band and co-leading Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project, she’s involved in several projects as co-leader or side-woman. Ms. Baum has been on the faculty of the jazz department at Manhattan School of Music since 2006 and has been a clinician for Altus Flutes/KHS America (since 1995) who have have sponsored her innovative, pioneering workshops.

Andy Milne - piano
Joe Martin - bass