Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in New York City, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Saft moved from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley around 2007, and lived near Roswell Rudd. The two often played together, and Rudd passed on knowledge of some of his own music and that of Herbie Nichols.
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. 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. The same label has released several of Saft's recordings.Discography
- Ragged Jack with Cuong Vu
- Sovlanut
- Breadcrumb Sins
- Merzdub
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- Black Shabbis
- A Bag of Shells
- Borscht Belt Studies
- Fight Against Babylon with New Zion Trio
- Chaliwa with New Zion Trio
- The New Standard
- Sunshine Seas with New Zion Trio
- Loneliness Road
- Blue Dream
- Solo a Genova
- You Don't Know the Life
- Hidden Corners
As sideman
With Jerry Granelli
With Bobby Previte
- Too Close to the Pole
- My Man in Sydney
- Dangerous Rip
- The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro
- The Coalition of the Willing
- Mass
- Music from the Early 21st Century
With John Zorn
- Taboo & Exile
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- The Gift
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- IAO
- Voices in the Wilderness
- The Unknown Masada
- 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4
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- The Dreamers
- O'o
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- A Dreamers Christmas
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- Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
- The Big Gundown
With others'
Ceremonial Healing Bad Brains, Build a Nation Cyro Baptista, Beat the Donkey Cyro Baptista, Love the Donkey Jane Ira Bloom, Like Silver, Like Song Oren Bloedow & Jennifer Charles, La Mar Enfortuna Sasha Dobson, Aquarius Dave Douglas, Freak In Dave Douglas, Keystone Peter Epstein, Staring at the Sun Gaudi, Magnetic Chuck Hammer, Blind On Blind Hasidic New Wave, From the Belly of Abraham Frank London, Scientist at Work Mat Maneri, Pentagon Joe McPhee, Ticonderoga Youn Sun Nah, She Moves On Orange Then Blue, Hold the Elevator Ruper Ordorika, Memoriaren Mapan Ruper Ordorika, Guria Ostatuan Roswell Rudd, Strength & Power Wadada Leo Smith, Lake Biwa Wadada Leo Smith, Red Hill Chris Speed, Iffy Cuong Vu, Bound''
