Jamie Saft’s New Zion Trio – Jamie Saft, Bradley Jones, Hamid Drake
New release news: Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, and Nels Cline will release “Music from the 21st Century” on Rare Noise Records, February 28, 2020.
As with most of Jamie Saft’s records, the interweaving of originals and covers on You Don’t Know The Life is a mark of ingenious artistry at work. The multi-instrumentalist/composer and his simpatico compatriots create music that runs a remarkably broad gamut of emotions. And in its roughly forty-five-minute arc of feeling, a listener can end up equally drained and enlivened by this trio’s own journey through the heart and soul (and beyond).
Glide Magazine – THE GLIDE JAZZ 20- OUR TOP 20 JAZZ RELEASES FOR 2019 (LIST)
All About Jazz – Mark Corroto’s Best Releases Of 2019
“…classic organ-trio textures, with hints of vintage R&B and near-ambient trippiness.”
– Harry Shteamer, Rolling Stone – The Many Sounds of Jazz in 2019: A Listener’s Guide
Downbeat – 2019: The Year’s Top-Rated Albums – 4.5 Stars
“It’s a one-of-a-kind thing. Jamie Saft, the high priest of acoustic groove and heir to Sun Ra’s spatial explorations, who also reigns over microtonal metal and maybe even rock-minded syncopation, is known for his unique, unwavering creative impulse.”
– Sons D’Hiver
February 1, 2020 – Jamie Saft’s New Zion Trio // Sons d’Hiver with Bill Laswell’s Method of Defiance, Paris.
February 3, 2020 – Kufstein, Austria // Kulturfabrik.
More performances to be announced.
“…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
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
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, Jamie Saft Trio, and Jamie Saft Quartet. Saft has collaborated with legends of music including Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Dave Liebman, Joe Morris, Hamid Drake, Bobby Previte, Steve Swallow, Darryl Jenifer, and Cyro Baptista.
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
