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.
so titled because, as she told Moreno at the time,"this country was really founded on genocide and slavery, so let's just be real about that."
Those inspirations covered a spectrum, from the murmuring warmth of Chet Baker to the mischievous blare of Lester Bowie. Like Bowie and Miles Davis, another key influence, branch knew how to place her sound within the tumult of an assertive band, sometimes cutting through and sometimes burrowing in.
This burgeoning area of expertise served branch well when she returned to Chicago, home to some of the most free-thinking composer-improvisers on the planet. Among her early champions there was cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, with whom she formed a trio. Before long she had also met Ajemian, Reid and Taylor, as well as Chicago mainstays like multi-reedist Ken Vandermark, drummer Frank Rosaly and flutist Nicole Mitchell.
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