Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft | |
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Born | 1971 (age 46–47) |
Genres | Avant-garde |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instruments | Keyboards, organ |
Labels | Avant, Tzadik, Veal |
Associated acts | John Zorn |
Website | Official website |
Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in Upstate New York. Saft was born in New York City, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with an eclectic variety of notable artists including John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Iggy Pop, Bad Brains, B-52s, Beastie Boys, Donovan, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, Marc Ribot, Marshall Allen, Bernard Purdie, Joe Morris, Derek Bailey, Dave Lombardo, Bill Laswell, Cyro Baptista, Chuck Hammer, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Dave Douglas & Merzbow. He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us.
Contents
1 Discography
1.1 With Slobber Pup
1.2 With John Zorn
1.3 As sideman
2 External links:
Discography
Ragged Jack (Avant, 1997) with Cuong Vu
Sovlanut (Tzadik, 2000)
B52's - "The Chosen One" (OLM 2000)
Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik, 2002)
The Only Juan (Love Slave, 2002) with Jerry Granelli- Pramrod Sexena- "GODSSPECIALPEOPLE" (Frank Booth Industries/ Jumbo Recordings 2002)
Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1 (Tzadik, 2005) composed by John Zorn
Music from the Film Murderball (Commotion, 2005) film score/compilation featuring various artists
Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik, 2006)
Beastie Boys - "Awesome! I F*****' Shot That" (Think Film 2006)
Merzdub (Caminante, 2006) with Merzbow
Bad Brains - "Build a Nation" (Megaforce Records 2007)- Swami LatePlate- "DOOM JAZZ" (Veal Records 2007)
- Whoopie Pie- "Sweet" (Veal Records 2008)
Black Shabbis (Tzadik, 2009)- Beta Popes- "Live Hate" (Veal Records 2009)
- Beta Popes- "White Hate" (Veal Records 2009)
A Bag of Shells (Tzadik, 2010) film scores- Kalashnikov- "Bang Bang" (Veal Records 2011)
Borscht Belt Studies (Tzadik, 2011)
Fight Against Babylon (Veal, 2011) with New Zion Trio
Bad Brains - "Into the Future" (Megaforce Records 2012)- OV- "Live in Space & Time" (Veal Records 2012)
Chaliwa (Veal, 2013) with New Zion Trio- Jamie Saft- "Box of Dub" (Veal Records 2013)
- New Raspberry Bandits- "Little Birds & Big Trucks" (Veal Records 2013)
The New Standard (RareNoise, 2014) with Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte
Red Hill (RareNoise, 2014) with Wadada Leo Smith, Joe Morris and Balázs Pándi- Jerry Granelli & Jamie Saft- "NOWNESS" (Veal Records 2015)
Ticonderoga (Clean Feed, 2015) with Joe McPhee, Joe Morris and Charles Downs- Joe McPhee, Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Charles Downs- "TICONDEROGA" (Clean Feed 2015)
Strength & Power (RareNoise, 2016) with Roswell Rudd, Trevor Dunn and Balázs Pándi
Serenity Knolls (RareNoise, 2017) with Bill Brovold
Loneliness Road (RareNoise, 2017) with Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte and Iggy Pop
Solo a Genova (RareNoise, 2018)
With Slobber Pup
Black Aces (RareNoise, 2013)
Pole Axe (RareNoise, 2016)
With John Zorn
Taboo & Exile (Tzadik, 1999)
Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d (Tzadik, 2000)
Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Tzadik, 2001)
The Gift (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)
Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death (Tzadik, 2005)
With The Dreamers
The Dreamers (Tzadik, 2008)
O'o (Tzadik, 2009)
Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14 (Tzadik, 2010)
A Dreamers Christmas (Tzadik, 2011)
Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula (Tzadik, 2015)
With Electric Masada
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4 (Tzadik, 2004)
Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness (Tzadik, 2005)
With Ben Goldberg
Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15 (Tzadik, 2010)
With Moonchild
Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (Tzadik, 2007)
As sideman
With Cyro Baptista
Beat the Donkey (Tzadik, 2002)
Love the Donkey (Tzadik, 2005)
With Dave Douglas
Freak In (RCA, 2003)
Keystone (Greenleaf, 2005)
With Bobby Previte
Too Close to the Pole (Enja, 1996)
The Coalition of the Willing (Ropeadope, 2006)- "Dangerous Rip" (ENJA 1999)
- "My Man in Sydney" (ENJA 1998)
- Nick Millevoi's Desertion Trio with Jamie Saft- "Midtown Tilt" (Shhpuma 2018)
- Nick Millevoi's Desertion Trio with Jamie Saft- "Disertion" (Shhpuma 2016)
With Wadada Leo Smith
Lake Biwa (Tzadik, 2004)