Jamie Saft

Jamie Saft (born 1971) is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in Upstate New York. Saft was born in Flushing Queens, 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 John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Merzbow and many others. He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us. Saft can be seen playing live in Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Skerik - Live in Japan 2003 (DVD - Word Public). In 2006 he also contributed to Bobby Previte's Coalition of the Willing. Saft's projects have included the Jamie Saft Trio with Ben Perowsky and Greg Cohen, the New Zion Trio with Larry Grenadier and Craig Santiago, and The New Standard with Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte.

Contents

• The new standard trio jamie saft steve swallow bobby previte heineken jazzaldia 2015
• Mike Patton with Jamie Saft Trio Ballad of a thin man
• Discography
• With Slobber Pup
• With John Zorn
• As sideman
• References

Discography

Ragged Jack (Avant, 1997)

Sovlanut (Tzadik, 2000)

Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik, 2002)

The Only Juan (Love Slave, 2002)

Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1 (Tzadik, 2005) composed by John Zorn

Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik, 2006)

Merzdub (Caminante, 2006) with Merzbow

Black Shabbis (Tzadik, 2009)

A Bag of Shells (Tzadik, 2010)

Borscht Belt Studies (Tzadik, 2011)

Fight Against Babylon (Veal, 2011)

Chaliwa (Veal, 2013) with New Zion Trio

The New Standard (RareNoise, 2014) with Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte

Red Hill (RareNoise, 2014) with Wadada Leo Smith, Joe Morris and Balázs Pándi

Ticonderoga (Clean Feed, 2015) with Joe McPhee, Joe Morris and Charles Downs

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

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)

With Wadada Leo Smith

Lake Biwa (Tzadik, 2004)