“…and then there’s another song that was really the crucial harmonic basis for New Zion Trio….”
– Jamie Saft interview at Burning Ambulance
Subscribe to Jamie Saft’s new YouTube channel for live performance content. Today the channel launches with a solo jam on organ of Timmy Thomas’s “Why Can’t We Live Together.”
Tune in tomorrow for a premiere. 9am GMT | 5am US ET
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.
Tickets and info for Jamie Saft’s upcoming shows are in the event links below.
Jamie Saft’s SPHERES series continues with another great cast of improvisers
Jamie Saft (Zorn, Bad Brains, Iggy Pop, Beastie Boys) – keys
Chuck Hammer (David Bowie, Lou Reed) – guitar
Brad Jones (Marc Ribot, Ornette Coleman) – bass
Dan Rieser (Norah Jones, Marcy Playground) – drums
Tuesday, October 15 @ Nublu
151 Avenue C
8pm
Friday, October 18 @ Story Screen
445 Main St Beacon NY
8pm
“Referred to in English as The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages, Häxan is a Swedish-Danish film, a curious and groundbreaking mix of documentary and silent horror cinema, written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Whereas most films of the period were literary adaptations, Christensen’s take was unique, basing his film upon non-fiction works, mainly the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century treatise on witchcraft he found in a Berlin bookshop, as well as a number of other manuals, illustrations and treatises on witches and witch-hunting…
…Reportedly the most expensive film of the Swedish silent film era, Häxan was actually banned in the United States, and heavily censored in other countries.”-excerpted from Public Domain Review
Saturday, November 9 @ Quinn’s
330 Main St Beacon NY
9pm
Saft on vintage keys and electronics is joined by Brad Jones on bass and drummer Oscar Debe (Majek Fashek).
Jamie Saft’s New Zion Trio plays the Sons d’Hiver Festival, with Bill Laswell’s Method of Defiance, at Salle Jacques Brel, on February 1, 2020. Dates in Vienna, Kufstein, and more to follow.
Jamie Saft is deeply honored to be mentioned in The New Yorker’s extensive profile of the maestro Iggy Pop.
Read: The Survival of Iggy Pop (The New Yorker, September 2019)
Iggy Pop on Singing Jazz, Turning 70 (Rolling Stone – April 2017)
Rock vet talks adapting to the “quietude” of new piano-trio LP ‘Loneliness Road,’ crooning in French and how he’s keeping busy
RareNoiseRecords, May 26, 2017
Thank you
Jamie Saft’s SPHERES series continues with another lineup of jazz heavies. This time around, Saft will be joined by frequent collaborators Chuck Hammer (guitar) and Bobby Previte (drums), but also Andy Hess (bass; Gov’t Mule, Black Crowes) and Cyro Baptista (percussion; Trey Anastasio Band, Sting).
The band will play one set of music at 8:30pm on September 9 2019.
Jamie Saft, keys. 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.
Chuck Hammer, guitar. American guitarist and soundtrack composer, known for textural guitar work with Lou Reed and David Bowie, and the development of a technique referred to as “Guitarchitecture.”
Cyro Baptista, percussion. Master of all things world music and jazz, Baptista has recorded and performed with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Yo Yo Ma, Paul Simon, Snoop Dog, Cassandra Wilson, Tom Zé, Sting and many more.
Andy Hess, bass. Hess is a former member of Gov’t Mule. He has played bass with Joan Osborne’s band as well as John Scofield’s Uberjam, and done session work for artists such as David Byrne and Tina Turner.
Bobby Previte, drums. Previte is a composer and performer who has worked with master composer John Adams, singer Tom Waits, and director Robert Altman.
Praise for Hidden Corners (RareNoise Records) by The Jamie Saft Quartet
“Hidden Corners is tactile. Instruments are close enough to touch. Jones’ bass and Drake’s drums are powerful and loud, not like an objectively neutral audiophile recording but like live music. Hidden Corners is vividly, gloriously in-your-face. The intensity of the music is inseparable from the physical impact of the sound.”
– Stereophile
“Ecstatic, fierce, surging like a mighty river, it will leave an indelible imprint upon your psyche.” – The Aquarian
Jamie Saft & Thunder Shout have connected to present SPHERES: a monthly residency where Saft taps heavy-hitting improvisers from the NYC scene to congregate for a set of no-boundary musical exploration.
This month, on August 6, we host…
Jamie Saft (keys; John Zorn, Bad Brains, Iggy Pop)
Chuck Hammer (guitar; David Bowie, Lou Reed)
Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bass; Ornette Coleman, Marc Ribot)
Mike Clark (drums; Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Christian McBride)
$10 adv / $15 dos
Details at Facebook | Advance Tickets
Recent review of Hidden Corners by The Jamie Saft Quartet in Financial Times
Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balazs Pandī w/ Roswell Rudd – Ceremonial Healing (Record Store Day Release 2019)
“Rocking and grooving like if Sun Ra had joined forces with Deep Purple…” – Jazz Trail
Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte – You Don’t Know the Life
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
