Borscht Belt Studies

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Borscht Belt Studies
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Studio album by Jamie Saft
Released August 30, 2011
Recorded 2010, New York
Genre Jazz
Length52:43
Label Tzadik TZ 8164
Producer Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft chronology
A Bag of Shells
(2010)		Borscht Belt Studies
(2011)		 Fight Against Babylon
(2011)

Borscht Belt Studies is an album by Jamie Saft which was released on the Tzadik label in 2009. [1]

Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in Upstate New York. Saft was born in New York City, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with an eclectic variety of notable artists including 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 has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us.

Tzadik Records American record label

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-profit, cooperative record label.

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In his review for Allmusic, Thom Jurek notes that "Saft divides the album into musical sections that alternate by cut. Some compositions are based on blues, jazz, and Yiddish melodies, some in modern composition and vanguard classical music, and the closing track in reggae!... It's a mysterious, labyrinthine piece that is a stunner in the end -- it reflects the rest of Borscht Belt Studies beautifully". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Jamie Saft

  1. "Issachar" - 5:15
  2. "Hellenville" - 3:52
  3. "Darkest Arts" - 3:30
  4. "Pinkus" - 5:13
  5. "The Pines" - 3:29
  6. "Darash" - 4:13
  7. "Solomon County" - 6:54
  8. "Jews for Joseph (Maneri)" - 7:01
  9. "Kutshers" - 4:34
  10. "Azulai" - 3:44
  11. "New Zion" - 4:58

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Rhodes piano Electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes

The Rhodes piano is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular throughout the 1970s. Like a piano, it generates sound using keys and hammers, but instead of strings, the hammers strike thin metal tines, which are then amplified via an electromagnetic pickup which is plugged into an external keyboard amplifier and speaker.

Ben Goldberg Jazz composer and clarinettist

Ben Goldberg is an American clarinet player and composer.

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References

  1. ↑ Tzadik catalogue
  2. 1 2 Jurke, Thom. Jamie Saft – Borscht Belt Studies > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 10, 2014.
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