Part of the “This Is” series, Spotify curated a Jamie Saft playlist that includes selections from his solo works and various combinations, including Solo A Genova, Blue Dream, Loneliness Road, Serenity Knolls, The New Standard, and more. Follow Jamie Saft on Spotify.
Tour starts Saturday, February 2, in Kufstein, Austria:
02.Feb KUFSTEIN/Austria – Musikschule Kufstein
03.Feb WELS/Austria Spiegelsaal – Hotel Greif
04.Feb BOLZANO/Italy – Carambolage
06.Feb RIJKEVORSEL/Belgium De Singer
08.Feb HANNOVER/Germany – Tonhalle Hannover
09.Feb FIRENZE/Italy – A.P.S. “Vie Nuove Associazione di Promozione Sociale”
Review. “You Don’t Know the Life” – Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte. Praise for the album, written by Raul da Gama. Full article here. 01.31.2019
“an album to die for”
Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte – “You Don’t Know the Life” is out now on RareNoise Records: gatefold green vinyl, cd digipak, and in the digital. Art and design by Steven Erdman with additional layout assistance by Graham Schreiner.
Buy it directly from the label, find it at Amazon, Apple, Spotify, or ask your local record shop to order it.
Review from SENTIREASCOLTARE, music journal, Italy. Read the full article here.
“I see a leader!”
Jamie Saft’s solo tour of Austria, Italy, Belgium, and Germany begins 02.February. Details via Songkick, Facebook, with Saudades.
Reviews of the performance by Jamie Saft, Bradley Jones, Nasheet Waits, Bill McHenry at Soho Playhouse on January 11, 2019.
Read the full review. “Jamie Saft’s Timeless Swing” – 01/14/19
This one was pure class.
Read the full review. With photography by © Clara Pereira and text by Filipe Freitas
…tunes that easily reached the heart and uplifted the soul…
All About Jazz
Mark Corroto – All About Jazz – Best of 2018
Doug Collette – All About Jazz – Best of 2018
Doug Collette – Glide Magazine – Best of jazz 2018
Jamie Saft – Solo A Genova. “Renaissance man Saft’s comparatively simple solo playing here is as refreshing as it is engrossing.”
Sasha Frere Jones included Blue Dream in his Music I Enjoyed in Two Thousand Eighteen List.
“Music this good doesn’t come along all that often. But when it does, it can be one of the most enjoyable and rewarding pleasures in life. “Blue Dream” is a truly remarkable album from a group of musicians at the peak of their creative powers.” -Mike Gates
JazzWise
Kevin Legendre – Jazz Wise (Print only)
Best Jazz Albums of 2018 – GiornaleDellaMusica.it
Best Live Jazz Albums of 2018 – JazzPress Poland
Best Albums of 2018 –Ümit Baykara – Cazkolik
Best of 2018 – Pagina Dois, por Cassiano Rodka
Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York. His stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, HR, The B-52’s, John Zorn, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Donovan, Antony and the Johnsons, and Iggy Pop. Saft leads the New Zion Trio, The Jamie Saft Trio, and The Jamie Saft Quartet.
Saft has composed a number of original film scores including the Oscar nominated “Murderball” and Sundance winner “God Grew Tired Of Us.” Saft has also scored extensively for Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Vice TV, NFL Football, CBS, and A&E. Saft currently runs the independent record label Veal Records as well as Potterville International Sound, both based out of Kingston, NY.
Jamie Saft on Bandcamp
Releases from:Beta Popes, Bunda Love with Saft, Jamie Saft, Jerry Granelli & Jamie Saft, Kalashnikov, King Krangus, New Raspberry Bandits, New Zion Trio, OV, Pramrod Sexena, Swami LatePlate, Whoopie Pie
