Jazz Articles about Jamie Saft

About Jamie Saft

Live Review

Jamie Saft Solo Piano a Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
February 28, 2019

Jamie Saft Solo Piano Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 9.2.2019 Perla di un programma ricco di grandi interpreti, il concerto del multistrumentista Jamie Saft lo ha visto sul palcoscenico del Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze per una performance solistica nella quale ha presentato un panorama a trecentosessanta gradi della musica statunitense, che riprendeva quello del suo CD Solo a Genova, recentemente uscito per RareNoise. A dirla tutta, c'è voluto un po' per apprezzare il ...

Album Review

Jamie Saft: You Don't Know The Life

Read "You Don't Know The Life" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 4, 2019

We should all be as comfortable in our own skin as Jamie Saft. Zen-like tranquility emanates from his music no matter the form of his projects: the ambient ensemble Plymouth, solo piano, vocals by Iggy Pop on Loneliness Road (RareNoise, 2017), or a small combo like his quartet. This multi- instrumentalist/composer is so secure in his identity that he can participate to the fullest, perfectly confident that his personality will permeate his contributions. You Don't Know The Life ...

Album Review

Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte: You Don't Know The Life

Read "You Don't Know The Life" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 2, 2019

Since his 1997 recording debut, keyboardist Jamie Saft has carved out a dynamic profile, first (mostly) with John Zorn's Tzadik label and, since 2011, with RareNoise Records. A string of four releases on the label set the stage, beginning with 2014's trio outing The New Standard, through Loneliness Road (2017) (another trio set, with Iggy Pop sitting in on a few tunes), Solo A Genova (2018), and the quartet recording, Blue Dream, featuring saxophonist Bill Henry. It was a busy ...

Year in Review

Doug Collette's Best Releases of 2018

by Doug Collette
December 13, 2018

It wasn't hard in the least to compile a 'Best of...' list for 2018. The titles were self-evident as they rolled out, with almost clockwork regularity, over the course of the twelve months, ultimately comprising what I kept going back to most often during the year, enjoying each one more (and in a slightly different way) with each successive hearing. Jamie Saft Solo A Genova Rare Noise Records Jamie Saft Quartet

Album Review

The Jamie Saft Quartet: Blue Dream

Read "Blue Dream" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 20, 2018

Se Solo a Genova ci aveva rivelato il lato sorprendentemente intimo e meditativo di Jamie Saft, Blue Dream espande sia a livello sonoro che di formazione quel mood e quella visione. Regalandoci così un album classico per struttura e concezione, sobrio nel rivisitare i canoni di un jazz in gran parte ancorato alla strada maestra, creativo nel trovare soluzioni e sviluppi. Nove composizioni originali che suonano come standard e tre standard storici si fondono in un unicum ...

Album Review

Jamie Saft Quartet: Blue Dream

Read "Blue Dream" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
July 9, 2018

His third fairly conventional release in a row, Blue Dream is Jamie Saft's second release of this year, followup of a sort to the splendid piano recital Solo a Genova (Rarenoise, 2018). Both titles appear subsequent to a diverse string of projects including Plymouth (Rarenoise, 2014), Red Hill (Rarenoise, 2014) and Serenity Knolls (Rarenoise, 2017), none of which have much in common sonically or conceptually apart from an elevated level of collective creativity. Similar in concept to the ...

Album Review

Jamie Saft: Solo a Genova

Read "Solo a Genova" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 2, 2018

Dando un'occhiata alla scaletta dei brani, qualche perplessità sulla messa a fuoco di un progetto che mette insieme Joni Mitchell e John Coltrane, ZZ Top e Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder e ... Charles Ives si affaccia spontanea. Ma se lo Steinway D-274 che sfrutta l'eccellente acustica dell' Auditorium Eugenio Montale di Genova è nelle sapienti mani di un musicista onnivoro e trasversale come pochi quale Jamie Saft i dubbi svaniscono all'istante. E l'ascolto lo conferma appieno. Solo ...