Trumpeter Jaimie Branch is a complete master of the horn. She can fire gleaming rockets into the sky, or hiss and squeal like the air escaping a balloon. She’s a great writer, too, coming up with deceptively simple tunes that her band — cellist Tomeka Reid, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Chad Taylor — can ride as long as they feel like. That’s only half the story, though; on “Leaves of Glass,” cornet players Ben Lamar Gay and Josh Berman join her for a three-voice chorale, layered in atmospheric reverb, that recalls the late ’70s work of Wadada Leo Smith.

Jaimie Branch was handpicked by International Anthem to cut a session for them after helping put together a Nick Mazzarrella show in New York, and quickly became one of the label’s standout artists with Fly or Die. Not that she was alone in this, of course — the power of Fly or Die comes from her quartet’s fluidity, with Tomeka Reid’s tendon-straining cello acting as the heavy, foreboding foil to Branch’s brightly exclamatory playing and the Jason Ajemian/Chad Taylor rhythm section doing just as much to roil up the chaos as they do to uphold the structure. Coolly intense in their confines one moment (the skitter-stepping trap-jazz of “Theme 001”/”Theme 002”), then sprawling in the negative space of overdubbed corrosion (“Leaves of Glass”) or exploding as unpredictable as the weather (“The Storm”), this is a newly liberated bandleader and her players throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks — only to find out that the force of their efforts just knocked the wall over completely.