In English usage there is the nice description of a person “larger than life”. Bigger than life. It was a perfect match for Jaimie Branch. Her energy levels were legendary, her conservatory-schooled trumpet playing brilliant, and her arcs of ideas served as a reminder of why jazz has always been the essence of American culture. Similar to how be bop translated the electrifying mood of optimism in the post-war metropolises and free jazz translated the furor of the liberation movements into music, their new album “Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))” performs one last time , why she was such a key figure in the hipster cosmos of the International Anthem label.
Jazz trumpeter Jaimie Branch’s last album – Culture
