Jamie Juice

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Jamie Saft (* 1971 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , keyboard , organ , accordion , also guitar , bass , electronics ) and composer , who also worked as a sound engineer .

Live and act

Jamie Saft grew up in Flushing and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and at Tufts University , a. a. with Paul Bley , Geri Allen , Cecil McBee, and Joe Maneri ; an important mentor was the composer Burton Hatheway . In 1993 he returned to New York and has since worked in various musical fields from opera to jazz. In 1995 he appeared as a soloist at New York's Lincoln Center , as an organist he played with Bobby Previte ( Latin for Travelers , Enja 1995), as an accordionist with Peter Epstein and Jerry Granelli ( Enter a Dragon ); he also worked with John Zorn / The Moonchild Trio , the Groove Collective and Marc Ribot . With Cuong Vu he recorded the album Ragged Jack (Avant) in 1995 , followed by Sovlanut (Tzadik), which he recorded in 1999/2000 with Chris Speed and Jim Black . Collaborations with Hasidic New Wave , Mat Maneri , Mark O'Leary , Kenny Wollesen , Trevor Dunn , Erik Friedlander , Larry Grenadier and Ben Goldberg followed in the 2000s . The album Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan was created in a trio with Ben Perowsky and Greg Cohen . Saft has also worked as a film music musician ( Fireworks in Italian 2001), as a film composer ( Murderball , 2005 and God Grew Tired of Us , 2006) and as a sound engineer at Potterville International Sound Studio .

In 2015 he won Down Beat's critics polls in the Rising Star category (organ and keyboard, in the latter case ex aequo with George Colligan ).

Discographic notes

  • Ragged Jack (Avant, 1997)
  • Sovlanut ( Tzadik , 2000)
  • Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik, 2002)
  • The Only Juan (Love Slave Records, 2002), with Jerry Garnelli
  • Astaroth: Book of Angels Vol. 1 (Tzadik, 2005), as the Jamie Saft Trio
  • Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik, 2006) as the Jamie Saft Trio
  • Merzdub (Caminante, 2006), with Merzbow
  • Live in Japan 2003 (Word Public, DVD, 2006), with Bobby Previte , Skerik
  • The Synth Show ( Leo Records , 2008), with Mark O'Leary, Kenny Wollesen
  • Black Shabbis (Tzadik, 2009), with Trevor Dunn
  • A Bag of Shells (Tzadik, 2010), with Bobby Previte, Erik Friedlander, Cyro Baptista , Bill McHenry
  • Borscht Belt Studies (Tzadik, 2011), with Larry Grenadier, Ben Goldberg
  • The New Standard (RareNoise, 2014), with Steve Swallow , Bobby Previte
  • Ticonderoga ( Clean Feed Records , 2015), with Joe Morris , Charles Downs , Joe McPhee
  • Loneliness Road (RareNoise 2017), with Steve Swallow & Bobby Previte (with Iggy Pop )
  • Solo a Genova (RareNoise Records, 2018)
  • Blue Dream (RareNoiseRecords, 2018)
  • Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow , Bobby Previte : You Don't Know the Life (RareNoiseRecords, 2018)
  • Hidden Corners (2019), with Dave Liebman , Bradley Christopher Jones , Hamid Drake
  • Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Nels Cline : Music from the Early 21. Century (RareNoise, 2020)
  • Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Bradley Jones, Charles Downs: Atlas (2020)

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personal data
SURNAME Juice, Jamie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn