Jamie Saft | |
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 Saft at the
Newport Jazz Festival, 2014 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
| Genres | Avant-garde |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | Keyboards, organ |
| Labels | Avant, Tzadik, Veal |
| Website | Official website |
Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. [1] He was born in New York City and raised a Conservative Jew, [2] and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. [1]
Saft moved from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley around 2007, and lived near Roswell Rudd. [3] The two often played together, and Rudd passed on knowledge of some of his own music and that of Herbie Nichols. [3]
He has performed and recorded with an eclectic variety of artists including John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Iggy Pop, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, and Marc Ribot. [1] He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us; selections from these were released by Tzadik Records as A Bag of Shells. [1] The same label has released several of Saft's recordings. [1]
Discography
- Ragged Jack with Cuong Vu (Avant, 1996)
- Sovlanut (Tzadik, 2000)
- Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik, 2002)
- Merzdub (Caminante, 2006)
- Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik, 2006)
- Black Shabbis (Tzadik, 2009)
- A Bag of Shells (Tzadik, 2010)
- Borscht Belt Studies (Tzadik, 2011)
- Fight Against Babylon with New Zion Trio (Veal, 2011)
- Chaliwa with New Zion Trio (Veal, 2013)
- The New Standard (RareNoise, 2014)
- Sunshine Seas with New Zion Trio (RareNoise, 2016)
- Loneliness Road (RareNoise, 2017)
- Blue Dream (RareNoise, 2018)
- Solo a Genova (RareNoise, 2018)
- You Don't Know the Life (RareNoise, 2019)
- Hidden Corners (RareNoise, 2019)
As sideman
With Jerry Granelli
- Enter, A Dragon (Songlines, 1998)
- Crowd Theory (Songlines, 1999)
- Music Has Its Way with Me (Perimeter, 1999)
- El oh el ay (Love Slave, 2001)
- The Only Juan (Love Slave, 2001)
- Gigantic (Love Slave, 2003)
- The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison (RareNoise, 2020)
With Bobby Previte
- Too Close to the Pole (Enja, 1996)
- My Man in Sydney (Enja, 1997)
- Dangerous Rip (Enja, 1998)
- The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro (Tzadik, 2001)
- The Coalition of the Willing (P-Vine, 2006)
- Mass (RareNoise, 2016)
- Music from the Early 21st Century (RareNoise, 2020)
With John Zorn
- Taboo & Exile (Tzadik, 1999)
- Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d (Tzadik, 2000)
- The Gift (Tzadik, 2001)
- Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Tzadik, 2001)
- Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 (Tzadik, 2002)
- Filmworks XI: Secret Lives (Tzadik, 2002)
- Filmworks XII: Three Documentaries (Tzadik 2002)
- IAO (Tzadik, 2002)
- Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003)
- The Unknown Masada (Tzadik, 2003)
- 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4 (Tzadik, 2004)
- Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1 (Tzadik, 2005)
- Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death (Tzadik, 2005)
- Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness (Tzadik, 2005)
- The Dreamers (Tzadik, 2008)
- O'o (Tzadik, 2009)
- Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14 (Tzadik, 2010)
- Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15 (Tzadik, 2010)
- A Dreamers Christmas (Tzadik, 2011)
- Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula (Tzadik, 2015)
- Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (Tzadik, 2007)
- The Big Gundown (Tzadik, 2000)
With others
- Marshall Allen, Ceremonial Healing (RareNoise, 2019)
- Bad Brains, Build a Nation (Oscilloscope/Megaforce, 2007)
- Cyro Baptista, Beat the Donkey (Tzadik, 2002)
- Cyro Baptista, Love the Donkey (Tzadik, 2005)
- Jane Ira Bloom, Like Silver, Like Song (ArtistShare, 2005)
- Oren Bloedow & Jennifer Charles, La Mar Enfortuna (Tzadik, 2001)
- Sasha Dobson, Aquarius (Creek Valley, 2013)
- Dave Douglas, Freak In (Bluebird, 2002)
- Dave Douglas, Keystone (Greenleaf Music, 2005)
- Peter Epstein, Staring at the Sun (MA, 1997)
- Gaudi, Magnetic (RareNoise, 2017)
- Chuck Hammer, Blind On Blind (AVA, 2016)
- Hasidic New Wave, From the Belly of Abraham (Knitting Factory, 2001)
- Frank London, Scientist at Work (Tzadik, 2002)
- Mat Maneri, Pentagon (Thirsty Ear, 2005)
- Joe McPhee, Ticonderoga (Clean Feed, 2015)
- Youn Sun Nah, She Moves On (ACT, 2017)
- Orange Then Blue, Hold the Elevator (GM, 1999)
- Ruper Ordorika, Memoriaren Mapan (Elkar, 2006)
- Ruper Ordorika, Guria Ostatuan (Elkar, 2016)
- Roswell Rudd, Strength & Power (RareNoise, 2016)
- Wadada Leo Smith, Lake Biwa (Tzadik, 2004)
- Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill (RareNoise, 2014)
- Chris Speed, Iffy (Knitting Factory, 2000)
- Cuong Vu, Bound (OmniTone, 2000)
References
- ^ a b c d e Layne, Joslyn. "Jamie Saft". AllMusic. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
- ^ Cohan, Brad (2013-04-16). "H.R. of Bad Brains is Not Crazy, Insists Jamie Saft". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ a b Murph, John (February 25, 2019). "Jamie Saft Delves into Rich Conversations on new RareNoise Disc". Down Beat. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
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Categories:
- Avant-garde jazz musicians
- American film score composers
- American jazz keyboardists
- Tufts University alumni
- New England Conservatory alumni
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Tzadik Records artists
- RareNoiseRecords artists
- American male jazz musicians
- Orange Then Blue members
- The Coalition of the Willing (band) members
- Avant-garde keyboardists
- American avant-garde musicians
- Leo Records artists
- Jewish heavy metal musicians
- Jewish jazz musicians