Jamie Saft

American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer

Born: 1971
Brooklyn
Country: United States
Record labels: Tzadik Records, RareNoise Records
Discography: 29 albums

Biography

Jamie Saft is a jazz musician who plays piano. Jamie Saft was born in 1971 in Brooklyn. The music is usually filed under jazz. Record labels: Tzadik Records and RareNoise Records. The discography here lists 29 albums, from “Ragged Jack” (1996) to “Rhodes Scholar” (2026).

Jamie Saft (born 1971 in New York City) is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was raised a Conservative Jew, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. Saft moved from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley around 2007, and lived near Roswell Rudd. The two often played together, and Rudd passed on knowledge of some of his own music and that of Herbie Nichols. He has performed and recorded with an eclectic variety of artists including John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Iggy Pop, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, and Marc Ribot. He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us; selections from these were released by Tzadik Records as A Bag of Shells. The same label has released several of Saft's recordings. Jamie has three daughters.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

Ragged Jack 1996

Sovlanut 2000

Breadcrumb Sins 2002

The Only Juan 2002 · Live

Merzdub 2006

The Uninvited 2006

bunda love mit saft 2007 · Live

Black Shabbis 2009

A Bag of Shells 2010

Borscht Belt Studies 2011

Nowness 2013

The New Standard 2014

Conglomerates 2017

Loneliness Road 2017

Nominedomine 2017

Serenity Knolls 2017

Cyrus 2018

Midtown Tilt 2018

Solo a Genova 2018 · Live

You Don’t Know the Life 2019

Atlas 2020 · Live

Jamie Saft Plays Mr. Dorgon 2020

Lundy Rd 2020

Mountains 2020 · Live

The Golden Scale 2020 · Live

Jamie Saft Plays Joe Morris 2021

Dreams of Yesterday and Tomorrow 2025

Greatest Organ Hits 2025

Rhodes Scholar 2026 · [no label]

Also plays on

Albums where Jamie Saft is credited as a sideman

2000	Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d — John Zorn	organ, piano, mix, recording
2001	The Gift — John Zorn	recording, organ, electric piano, keyboard, piano
2001	Songs from the Hermetic Theater — John Zorn	mix, recording
2001	Labyrinth — Ikue Mori	mix, recording
2001	Witness — Dave Douglas	engineer
2002	Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Volume 2 — John Zorn	keyboard
2002	Filmworks XIII: 2002, Volume Three: Invitation to a Suicide — John Zorn	mix, recording
2002	Filmworks XII: 2002, Volume Two: Three Documentaries — John Zorn	piano
2002	Filmworks XI: 2002, Volume One: Secret Lives — John Zorn	mix, recording, piano
2003	Freak In — Dave Douglas	keyboard
2005	Astaroth: Book of Angels, Volume 1 — John Zorn; Jamie Saft Trio	arranger, piano, mix
2005	Masada Anniversary Edition, Volume 5: Masada Rock — John Zorn	mix, recording
2005	Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death — John Zorn	guitar, electric piano
2005	Myrninerest — Ikue Mori	mix
2005	Keystone — Dave Douglas	Wurlitzer electric piano
2006	Moonchild: Songs Without Words — John Zorn	recording
2007	Six Litanies for Heliogabalus — John Zorn	organ
2008	The Dreamers — John Zorn; The Dreamers	keyboard
2009	O’o — John Zorn; The Dreamers	keyboard
2010	Baal: Book of Angels, Volume 15 — John Zorn; Ben Goldberg Quartet	piano
2010	Ipos: Book of Angels, Volume 14 — John Zorn; The Dreamers	keyboard
2011	A Dreamers Christmas — John Zorn; The Dreamers	keyboard
2015	Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula — John Zorn; The Dreamers	keyboard
2016	Strength & Power — Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi	piano, mix, recording