Flutes are for 'cloud and angel music'? Jamie Baum doesn't think so.

Frank Zappa once observed that the flute seemed consigned to "cloud and angel music." (A remarkable statement from an avowed fan of Eric Dolphy.) Whether or not Jamie Baum took that observation consciously to heart, the jazz flutist seems intent on defying it. Her playing on the concert and bass flutes is undoubtedly beautiful and at times ethereal, but also fiery and complex, challenging traditional harmonies. And as her Saturday night performance at Atlas Performing Arts Center's Sprenger Thea...