There was really a focus on the music … I was drawn to it in a physical, visceral way. Everyone was playing music at a super-high level but it wasn’t ego-driven.
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“There was literally a series almost every night of the week. “I liked the DIY-ness of it all,” she told Jazz Blues News. Branch returned to Chicago after graduation and became an in-demand local collaborator, organiser and sound engineer, playing in groups including Princess, Princess, Sherpa and Battle Cats. She was kicked out of home as a teenager after accidentally burning down her house, and met a mentor, John McNeil, who encouraged her successful application to the New England Conservatory of Music. She moved to Chicago in her teens and began to explore the history of jazz, turned on by Miles Davis’s ’58 Sessions Featuring Stella by Starlight and later Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, although she also played trumpet and keyboards in a punk-ska band named Tusker. Hurts a lot.”īranch was born in New York on 17 June 1983 and started playing the trumpet aged nine. Insane confidence on stage and delivered on it. “Like my brain is pink slime choking on air dying of laughter funny.
“Jaimie Branch was insanely funny,” wrote Walker. UK jazz outfit the Comet Is Coming, Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth, DJ Gilles Peterson and Illinois guitarist Ryley Walker were also among the figures celebrating Branch’s life. “My best times with her were in the future, I was looking forward to a life of knowing her more, and responding to her, and finding out who I can be in answer to the way she was.” “Things were always more exciting when Jaimie was around, but also somehow tender – more real and down to earth, but also more grand and epic and noble,” wrote DePlume (AKA Gus Fairbairn).
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Branch was also a beloved and voracious collaborator, working with untold artists – among them the US bands TV on the Radio, Yo La Tengo and Spoon, Texas guitarist Eli Winter, International Anthem peers such as Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid and Tortoise’s Jeff Parker and British jazz musician Alabaster dePlume, who paid tribute to Branch on Instagram.
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