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- The Analog Vault // Essential Listening -

The late, great Jaimie Branch was one of the most inventive American jazz trumpeters of the modern era. From cross-pollinations with artists as diverse as William Parker, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio, Spoon, Madlib and Talib Kweli; to her stellar work in Chicago and New York’s progressive jazz scenes - Branch’s open-minded, improvisational style could never be boxed into any particular genre. 

Nowhere is her innovation more apparent than on Branch’s marvellous debut album as a bandleader on International Anthem Recording Co. Released in 2017, Fly or Die is a record of unconventional musicality that blends Branch’s disposition for free jazz with strains of R&B, calypso, indie rock and classical. This compact and textured 35-minute suite is the ideal introduction to Branch’s eccentric, boundary-pushing genius. - The Analog Vault

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