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Jamie Saft - Steve Swallow - Bobby Previte: Loneliness Road
by Dan McClenaghan
So, the front man for the rock/pop group called The Stooges gets an invite to pitch in with a classic jazz piano trio. The Stooge would be Iggy Pop; the piano trio, Jamie Saft's, with bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bobby Previte. That's quite an experiment, like something Frank Zappa might have tried. Pianist Jamie Saft has hitched a big part of his star to John Zorn, appearing, as a sideman or leader, on a score of Zorn's ...
Continue ReadingBill Brovold & Jamie Saft: Serenity Knolls
by Dan Bilawsky
It's a shame to say it, but even the most open-minded souls have a tendency to classify and ghettoize musical artists. This is the type of album that reminds us all that you shouldn't. Bill Brovold, a guitarist who came up in the New York no wave scene in the early '80s and is known for his work with avant-rock outfit Larval, and Jamie Saft, a wide-ranging keyboardist with aggressive tendencies and tremendous outside cred, pair decently ...
Continue ReadingNew Zion w/ Cyro Baptista: Sunshine Seas
by Mark Corroto
The third release by Jamie Saft's New Zion Trio expands the concepts he launched with his previous efforts, Fight Against Babylon (Veal Records, 2011), and Chaliwa (Veal Records, 2013). His reggae/dub-meets-piano trio explorations expand with the inclusion of Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista. This rhythm trance music casts a much larger net, one of universal spirituality, beyond physical matter and the laws of nature. Without getting all theological on you, the fugue state of roots reggae and dub tap into a ...
Continue ReadingJamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte: The New Standard
by Vincenzo Roggero
Tre personalità assai differenti sia dal punto di vista generazionale che artistico accomunate dal medesimo spirito curioso e dal gusto per la sfida come Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow e Bobby Previte si danno appuntamento nello studio di registrazione di Saft e tre ore dopo scodellano questo The New Standard. Buona la prima, nessuna ripresa, nessuna alternate take, il tutto fissato su nastro a due tracce analogico dall'ingegnere del suono Joe Ferla, quarto protagonista dell'incisione. Che nasce in ...
Continue ReadingJamie Saft, Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte: The New Standard
by Glenn Astarita
Inimitable bassist Steve Swallow has pretty much seen and done it all. His vast achievements, historic alliances, and easily recognizable sound are firmly ingrained into the jazz idiom. Yet drummer Bobby Previte and keyboardist Jamie Saft are among the more notable modern trendsetters. They've both played significant roles in New York City's nonconforming downtown scene amid respective discographies that boast sojourns into jazz rock, free-form improvisation and boundless experimental initiatives. Moreover, Saft's recent improvisational collaborations with avant-garde guitarist Joe Morris ...
Continue ReadingAural Mayhem – Rare Noise / Jamie Saft - Joe Morris / Chat Noir
by C. Michael Bailey
On a bright spring Thursday afternoon, June 28, 1928, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five entered the Okeh Studios in Chicago Illinois to record “Three Perfect Minutes" of music in the guise of Joe “King" Oliver's immortal “West End Blues." Describing Armstrong's “West End" cornet solo, Gunther Schuller opined that it was, ..."an impassioned almost stammering repetitive phrase that seems to float, completely unencumbered, above the accompaniment." Thus, the most important recording in jazz history. What does ...
Continue ReadingJamie Saft Special Quintet at Cornelia St. Café
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Jamie SaftCornelia St. CaféNew York, NYNovember 12, 2010Perhaps better known for his electric keyboard work in genre-flouting projects, Jamie Saft also possesses a deep jazz sensibility and prodigious piano technique. It was these talents he sought to exercise with his “Special Quintet" for a 2-night, 4-set stand at Cornelia Street Café. Not stodgy or rote, the first set was firmly grounded in tradition but retained a sense of surprise. Saft was joined by ...
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