Jamie Saft

Influenced keyboardist Jamie Saft started showing up on a growing amount of N.Con.C.-focused jazz recordings through the ’90s and very well into the fresh millennium. Created in Queens, NY, Saft analyzed at the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music and Tufts University or college. At these universities, he analyzed with Paul Bley, Geri Allen, Cecil McBee, and Joe Maneri, furthermore to presenting composer and “piano specialized expert” (as Saft explained him) Burton Hatheway like a coach. In 1993, Saft came back to NY and it has since been carrying out a multitude of music designs, from opera to folk to rock to jazz inside a self-described pub music group. In 1995, he was the piano soloist in the brand new York and Paris premieres (at Lincoln Middle and MC93 Bobigny, respectively) of John Adams’ opera I HAD BEEN Considering the Ceiling and I Noticed the Sky. With the middle- to past due ’90s he performed Hammond body organ, Fender Rhodes, miniMoog, and bass in these “club music group,” Bobby Previte’s Latin for Travelers, whose recordings had been released on Enja. Saft in addition has performed accordion — within the Peter Epstein Quartet and on Jerry Granelli’s Enter, a Dragon — and metal guitar, among various other instruments. He provides documented and performed through the entire U.S., European countries, and the center East, and caused John Zorn (including regular membership in Electric powered Masada), Groove Collective, Marc Ribot, Drazy Hoops, and so many more. Saft also co-led a launch with trumpeter Cuong Vu entitled Ragged Jack port within the Avant label. From the close from the ’90s, he was occupied not merely touring but additionally recording a single recording for Tzadik with music artists including saxophonist Chris Rate and drummer Jim Dark; Sovlanut found its way to middle-2000. Saft continuing documenting for Tzadik through the entire 2000s, issuing such CDs as Breadcrumb Sins in 2002, Astaroth: Publication of Angels, Vol. 1 (a Jamie Saft Trio group of compositions from John Zorn’s Masada repertoire) in 2005, and Problems: The Jamie Saft Trio Takes on Bob Dylan in 2006. He also continuing collaborating on produces for other brands, like the Just Juan (with Jerry Granelli) on Like Slave Information in 2001 and Merzdub (with Merzbow) on Caminante in 2006. Back again on Tzadik, an anti-Semitism-themed rock CD, Dark Shabbis, appeared in ’09 2009. In 2005 Saft got begun scoring movies, and in early 2010 a compilation of choices from the ratings of Murderball, God Grew Sick and tired of Us: THE STORYPLOT of the Shed Children of Sudan, Dear Talula, and Brooklyn Exile premiered on Tzadik as Handbag of Shells. Saft also started executing with a fresh band called the brand new Zion Trio, including bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Craig Santiago. THE BRAND NEW Zion Trio added one monitor to Saft’s following solo record, Borscht Belt Research (also on Tzadik). The 11-melody, all-original set usually showcased the composer playing acoustic and electrical piano in single or duo configurations with clarinetist Ben Goldberg. In 2012, Saft started employed in earnest with Eraldo Bernocchi and Giacomo Bruzzo’s London-based label RareNoise. The very first project he had taken component in was Metallic Flavor of Bloodstream, a music group that well balanced improvisation, dub, jazz, sonic analysis, and prog rock and roll. Bernocchi and Saft had been joined up with by Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin and drummer Balázs Pándi. This is accompanied by his account within the all-improv group Slobber Puppy on Dark Aces in 2013, offering guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn, and Pándi. Saft upped the ante significantly in 2014, getting involved in a minimum of three recordings for the label, including Plymouth, with guitarists Morris and Mary Halvorson, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and bassist Chris Lightcap, in Apr; The New Regular, a more organised jazz trio time with Bobby Previte and Steve Swallow in-may; as well as the self-titled Crimson Hill, from an improv quartet with Wadada Leo Smith, Pándi, and Morris on bass in Sept. The following calendar year he released Ticonderoga on Clean Feed, supported by Morris, Joe McPhee, and Charles Downs. Power & Power was some sort of thematic follow-up to Crimson Hill, but this time around out, trombonist Roswell Rudd is at the lead function, supported by the pianist, Trevor Dunn, and Pandi. It had been followed by Sunlight Seas, a day that presented Saft’s New Zion Trio, and his co-leading with Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista.