Jazz Articles about Jamie Saft

Jamie Saft: Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 26, 2007

È dedicato alla musica di Bob Dylan questo nuovo lavoro in trio di Jamie Saft, pianista, tastierista, musicista tra i più inquieti e interessanti della “tribù" zorniana. Che la figura di Dylan - universalmente riconosciuta per lo straordinario valore poetico - sia un punto di riferimento importante per molti musicisti della scena jazz e improvvisata non è fattore che stupisce, dal momento che il suo vasto repertorio [e il ruolo di esso nell'immaginario musicale degli ultimi quarant'anni] è in grado ...

Jamie Saft: Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 17, 2006

It's a story almost as old as rock itself: Bob Dylan, the pop poet laureate, can't sing or play guitar, but he sure can write lyrics. Never mind that he was one of the most evocative vocalists of the '60s, who could turn a phrase as brilliantly well with his mouth as he could his pen. History shows otherwise--it takes Joan Baez or the Byrds to make his songs into something, popular wisdom holds, and his talent lies off-mic.

Jamie Saft Trio: Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 6, 2006

The sophomore release by the Jamie Saft Trio is a provocative and entertaining statement. Trouble attempts to reexamine Dylan's legacy from a Jewish point of view, as part of Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series, and to position Dylan as a Jewish role model--views that Dylan most likely would have renounced immediately. But furthermore, Trouble is provocative in its choice of Dylan compositions as well as their arrangements, and in these regards, Dylan may be more pleased. As Saft notes in ...

Jamie Saft: Experience Transcending the Speakers

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 28, 2006

Quite often the busiest ones are the ones behind the scenes. Musician, producer and sound engineer Jamie Saft is one of those figures on the Downtown New York music scene. He operates his own Frank Booth studio in Brooklyn, where many of the Tzadik label releases are recorded; he plays and records with such prominent leaders as John Zorn's Electric Masada, Bobby Previte's new band Coalition of the Willing, Dave Douglas' Keystone ensemble and Jane Ira Bloom's quartet.

Saft has ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by Michael McCaw
November 7, 2005

Keystone is an incredibly mature-sounding album from Dave Douglas--not because his work up till now has not been complete, but because he has fully integrated the technology and mode of the music first espoused by Miles Davis. Yet he has moved beyond that reference point and created a group sound that is thoroughly modern and doesn't need to push itself to musical extremes to demonstrate mastery.Dedicated to and inspired by early film comic Fatty Arbuckle, Keystone uses the ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by John Kelman
September 14, 2005

Paradoxically consistent yet somehow unpredictable, trumpeter Dave Douglas is an artistic rarity. Even when he records a followup to an existing project, you know it's going to be an evolution which throws in some surprises. Last year's Strange Liberation may have been a sequel to 2002's The Infinite, but the addition of Bill Frisell inspired new tactics, both compositionally and in performance.

Douglas' new disc, Keystone, has some precedence in his electronica-informed 2003 release, Freak In. Like that record, however, ...

Jamie Saft: Sovlanut

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2000

Keyboardist Jamie Saft’s inclusion in Tzadik records Radical Jewish Culture series is more radical than Jewish. The title Sovlanut means tolerance. From Saft’s multi-cultured Brooklyn home tolerance is the order of the day. The exploration of his Jewish-ness is through the filters of his neighborhood, which happens to be drum-n-bass and dub. Saft is the Jewish version of Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Saft a keyboardist with a preference for a vintage groove has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Cuong ...