His music - disturbing, deep and full of emotional nuance - accompanied the performance Republic of Dreams in our repertoire, bringing an aura of mystery and artistic understatement to it. Now, years later, Saft returns to Poznan - the city where he first performed in Europe in 1995 - to meet the audience in a unique, intimate concert.

Music in our performances is drama for the body - it gives rhythm, meaning and depth - it can deepen emotions, build mood and tell the unseen. That's why we reach for the work of artists such as Jamie Saft - to show that good music is more than a background - it is the soul of the performance.

This concert is addressed to all those who are looking for something more in music - authenticity and emotion. For those who appreciate jazz as a space of freedom and intimate dialogue with the artist.

This concert is for those who value jazz as a space of freedom and intimate dialogue with the artist.

More about the artist:

Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in upstate New York. Saft was born in 1971 in New York City, and is a graduate of Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music.

Jamie Saft is a composer and producer.

He has collaborated with many well-known artists such as John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Iggy Pop, Bad Brains, B-52s, Beastie Boys, Donovan, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, Marc Ribot, Marshall Allen, Bernard Purdie, Joe Morris, Derek Bailey, Dave Lombardo, Bill Laswell, Cyro Baptista, Chuck Hammer, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Dave Douglas & Merzbow. He also wrote several original movie soundtracks, including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us.

Inspired keyboardist Jamie Saft began appearing on an increasing number of N.Y.C.-oriented jazz recordings in the 1990s and well into the new millennium. Born in Queens, New York, Saft studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University. At these universities he studied with Paul Bley, Geri Allen, Cecil McBee and Joe Maneri, and was mentored by composer and "piano technique guru" (as Saft described him) Burton Hatheway. Saft returned to New York in 1993 and has since performed in a wide variety of musical styles, from opera to folk, heavy metal and jazz in a self-proclaimed bar band. In 1995, he was the piano soloist in the New York and Paris premieres (at Lincoln Center and MC93 Bobigny, respectively) of John Adams' opera I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. From the mid- to late 1990s, he played Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, miniMoog and bass in the aforementioned "bar band," Bobby Previte's Latin for Travelers, whose recordings were released by Enja. Saft also played accordion - including in Peter Epstein's quartet and Jerry Granelli's Enter, a Dragon - and steel guitar. He has recorded and performed in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, and has collaborated with John Zorn (including Electric Masada), Groove Collective, Marc Ribot, Drazy Hoops and many others. Saft also co-produced a release with trumpeter Cuong Vu entitled Ragged Jack on the Avant label.

In the late 1990s he was busy not only touring, but also recording a solo album for Tzadik with musicians including saxophonist Chris Speed and drummer Jim Black; Sovlanut appeared in mid-2000. Saft continued recording for Tzadik in 2000, releasing albums such as Breadcrumb Sins in 2002, Astaroth: Book of Angels, Vol. 1 (a set of Jamie Saft Trio compositions from John Zorn's Masada repertoire) in 2005, and Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan in 2006. He also continued to collaborate on releases for other labels, such as The Only Juan (with Jerry Granelli) on Love Slave Records in 2001 and Merzdub (with Merzbow) on Caminante in 2006. After returning to Tzadik, an anti-Semitic-themed Black Shabbis album was released in 2009. In 2005 Saft began composing music for films, and in early 2010 Tzadik released a compilation of selected scores from Murderball, God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Dear Talula and Brooklyn Exile under the title Bag of Shells. Saft also began performing with a new band called the New Zion Trio, which included bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Craig Santiago. The New Zion Trio added one track to Saft's next solo album, Borscht Belt Studies (also released by Tzadik). This 11-track, fully original set featured the composer playing acoustic and electric piano solo or in duo with clarinetist Ben Goldberg.

In 2012, Saft began working with the London-based RareNoise label, owned by Eraldo Bernocchi and Giacomo Bruzzo. The first project he took part in was Metallic Taste of Blood, a band combining improvisation, dub, jazz, sonic research and prog rock. Bernocchi and Saft were joined by Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin and drummer Balázs Pándi. Then in 2013, Saft joined Slobber Pup on Black Aces, a group that included guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn and Pándi. Saft raised the bar considerably in 2014, taking part in no fewer than three recordings for the label, including Plymouth, with guitarists Morris and Mary Halvorson, drummer Gerald Cleaver and bassist Chris Lightcap, in April; The New Standard, a more structured jazz trio with Bobby Previte and Steve Swallow in May; and the self-titled Red Hill, from an improvising quartet with Wadada Leo Smith, Pándi and Morris on bass in September. The following year he released Ticonderoga on Clean Feed, backed by Morris, Joe McPhee and Charles Downs. Strength Power was a sort of thematic sequel to Red Hill, but this time starring trombonist Roswell Rudd, backed by pianist Trevor Dunn and Pandi. It was followed by Sunshine Seas, featuring the New Zion Trio Safta and his co-leader with Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista. On The New Standard, released in 2017, Saft, Swallow and Previte were joined by punk icon Iggy Pop on three tracks. In early 2018, Saft teamed up with Larvalm multi-instrumentalist Bill Brovold to create the bucolic album Serenity Knolls. ~ Joslyn Layne & Thom Jurek, Rovi.

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