Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan

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Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 22, 2006
RecordedFebruary 2006, Frank Booth, Brooklyn
Genre Jazz
Length51:19
Label Tzadik TZ 8111
Producer Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft chronology
Music from the Film Murderball
(2005)
Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan
(2006)
Merzdub
(2008)

Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan is an album by Jamie Saft which was released on the Tzadik label in 2006. [1]

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In his review for Allmusic, Thom Jurek notes that "Saft feels no need to really improvise on the material, given its own merits, and comes up with a compelling, mysterious recording that brings folk music, jazz, blues, and other subtleties inherent in the work out". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bob Dylan

  1. "What Was It You Wanted" – 7:46
  2. "Ballad of a Thin Man" – 8:02
  3. "Dignity" – 5:34
  4. "God Knows" – 6:15
  5. "Trouble" – 6:33
  6. "Dirge" – 6:24
  7. "Living the Blues" – 5:15
  8. "Disease of Conceit" – 5:30

Personnel

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