Results for "Jamie Saft"

Jamie Saft

Jamie Saft (piano, organs, analog synthesis, bass and guitar, steel guitars) is a native of Queens, New York. Since returning to New York in 1993, Saft's stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Bobby Previte, John Zorn, the B-52's, Laurie Anderson, The Beastie Boys, Jerry Granelli, Dave Douglas, Holly Palmer, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postisos, Elysian Fields, Boomish, Black Beatle, Pramrod Sexena, Liminal, Antony and the Johnsons, Chocolate Genius, JoJo Mayer's Nerve, E-Z Pour Spout, Cuong Vu, Chris Speed Trio Iffy, Jane Ira Bloom, and the Groove Collective. Saft was the pianist for the New York and Paris premiers of John Adams' opera "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky" at Lincoln Center and MC93 Bobingy. Saft has released two solo records on Tzadik

Inner

By Charles Downs

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2026
Track listing: Inner 1; Inner 2; Inner 3; Inner 4; Inner 5.

Charles Downs: Inner

by Don Ball
August 20, 2026

It has been a long time coming for Charles Downs' debut recording as a leader. He began his career in the 1970s playing as Rashid Bakr with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and others before reverting to his birth name in the new century. Since then, he has performed as part of ...

From "The Hellhole"

By Marshall Crenshaw

Label: Yep Rock
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Don't See You Laughing Now; (They Long to) Be Close to You; Driving And Dreaming; I Just Want to Celebrate; Move Now; Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It; Walkin' Around; No Time; Grab The Next Train; Didn't Want to Have to Do It; Stranger And Stranger; Couldn't I Just Tell You; Red Wine; Never To Be Forgotten.

Alive and Well

By Yoshie Fruchter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Faint of Heart; Stark Reality; False Profits; Song 3; Buzzsaw; Emotion and Intellect; Alive and Well; Lament.

Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom: Alive and Well

by Max Kutner
December 12, 2025

Yoshie Fruchter has been a presence within the Radical Jewish and Modern Klezmer music circles for nearly 3 decades. His ensemble, Pitom, showcases many facets of his deep knowledge in those scenes as filtered through the sludge-clouded lenses of grunge, doom, and just straight metal. The band has released three full length albums since its inception, including ...

Marshall Crenshaw: From "The Hellhole"

by Doug Collette
September 6, 2025

In something of a reflection of its sardonic title, Marshall Crenshaw's From “The Hellhole" is not an album of all-new, never-before-recorded original material. It consists instead of revamped versions of recordings the Detroit native 'completed' for release in various forms in recent years (not the least of which is the now out-of-print #392: The EP Collection ...

Peter Epstein Quartet: In Your Voice

by Mike Jacobs
August 18, 2025

It could be said that jazz, at its best, is a confluence of musical personalities that form a unified collective spirit, brought forth with immediacy. Peter Epstein's “In Your Voice" epitomizes this ethos with remarkably empathetic and stylized performances from the saxophonist, Jamie Saft, Chris Dahlgren and Jim Black. This is further amplified by the one-point, ...

Elysium Furnace Works Kicks Off 2025 Season With A Solo Piano Festival, Beginning With Dave Burrell on Saturday, March 1 in Beacon, NY

January 30, 2025

Elysium Furnace Works is proud the announce the initial concerts for its 2025 season. To kick off 2025, EFW will present its very first solo piano festival. On each Saturday in March this year, EFW will present five of the most brilliant pianists performing anywhere today. All five concerts as part of the EFW Solo Piano ...

Jamie Saft, Quispel Quintet, Leiba Trio, Funkwrench Blues & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 4, 2025

Tributes to Thelonious Monk, Dutch novelist A.F.Th. van der Heijden, the Portuguese city of Guimarães, and much more in this intriguing playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Funkwrench Blues feat. Grant Green Jr., Hamid Drake “Indelicate Balance" Mischief in the Musitorium (Funkwrench Blues) 0:16 ...