Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die
Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die assembles some of the most passionate and innovative American jazz musicians of our time and moulds them into a fierce and brazenly political whole. Branch's primal trumpet cries and idiosyncratic vocals lead the band where she's flanked by cellist Lester St. Louis, bassist Jason Ajemian, and Chad Taylor on drums and percussion. Last year's Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise — much of which consists of live recordings — offers a poignant reflection of the uneasy tenor of the American political landscape and was praised in the Wire's Top 50 of 2019, the Guardian, and elsewhere.