Jamie Saft

Jamie Saft 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.

Discography

• Ragged Jack (Avant, 1997) - with Cuong Vu
• 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 and performed by the Jamie Saft Trio
• Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik, 2006) - Jamie Saft Trio
• Merzdub (Caminante, 2006) with Merzbow
• Black Shabbis (Tzadik, 2009)
• A Bag of Shells (Tzadik, 2010) - Soundtrack music
• Borscht Belt Studies (Tzadik, 2011)
• Fight Against Babylon (Veal, 2011) - New Zion Trio
• Chaliwa (Veal, 2013) - New Zion Trio
• The New Standard (RareNoise, 2014) - with Steve Swallow & Bobby Previte

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)

External links

• http://www.jamiesaft.com
• http://www.myspace.com/jamiesaft
• Interview and selected discography at AllAboutJazz by Eyal Hareuveni
• Video Interview at Allaboutjazz