Jamie Saft


Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was raised a Conservative Jew, 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
  • Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan
  • 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
  • Enter, A Dragon
  • Crowd Theory
  • Music Has Its Way with Me
  • El oh el ay
  • The Only Juan
  • Gigantic
  • The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison
;With Bobby Previte
;With John Zorn
;With others