Jamie Baum - Bridges (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Simply one of the best flute players around! Sunnyside Records presents the sixth album 'Bridges' by Jamie Baum and her septet, which features guitarist Brad Shepik and pianist John Escreet.

Hailed by Down Beat for her "remarkable artistic facility" and by The New York Times for her "remarkable balance of fluidity and restless creativity," New York-based flutist/composer and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow Jamie Baum releases her sixth CD as a leader. The highly anticipated follow-up to her 2013 recording 'In This Life', 'Bridges' offers yet another recording of incredible depth, beauty, spirituality, undiluted zeal and is the culmination of Baum's search for common links between some of the world's great religious music traditions.

While conducting research for her Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Baum explains, "I found there to be very deep connections going back centuries, between certain types of Jewish music (my earliest musical influences), and Muslim/Arabic and Hindu/South Asian music." Exploring these musical connections, and composing new music inspired by her findings, became the focus of 'Bridges'.

Tracklist:
1. From The Well
2. Song Without Words (for S. James Baum)
3. There Are No Words 05:59
4. Honoring Nepal: The Shiva Suite Part 1 - The Earthquake
5. Honoring Nepal: The Shiva Suite Part 2 - Renewal
6. Honoring Nepal: The Shiva Suite Part 3 - Contemplation
7. Joyful Lament
8. Mantra
9. UCross Me

Personnel:
Jamie Baum - flutes, singing bowl
Amir ElSaffar - trumpet, vocals
Sam Sadigursky - alto sax, bass clarinet
Chris Komer - French horn
Brad Shepik -guitar
John Escreet - piano
Zack Lober - bass, singing bowl
Jeff Hirschfeld - drums
Jamey Haddad - percussion (Bridges)
Navin Chettri - percussion, vocals (Bridges)