Jazz Articles about Jamie Saft

About Jamie Saft

Album Review

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, ...

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Album Review

Jamie Saft: Sovlanut

Read "Sovlanut" reviewed by Mark Corroto

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 ...