A rising star in the world of improvised music with her group FLY or DIE, branch died on Monday at her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.
, the founder of FONT Music, tells NPR."She had a vision for synthesizing the voices of her inspirations and taking them to new levels no one had thought possible. It's a tragic loss for our community."
The Branch family moved from Long Island to the northern suburbs of Chicago — Wilmette, Ill. — when jaimie was 14. At the New England Conservatory in Boston, she studied with Charles Schlueter, then the principal trumpeter in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as seasoned improvisers like guitarist Joe Morris and trumpeter John McNeil.
Another move in 2012, to study in a graduate program at Towson University, exacerbated some personal struggles:"Baltimore is a hard town to live in if you want to quit doing heroin," branch told Peter Margasak inShe dropped out of Towson after two years, enrolled in a treatment program on Long Island, and found her way to Brooklyn.
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