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Keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, Jamie Saft is exactly the type of musician we love to talk about here on the Major Scale. He’s prolific, and leaves no musical territory unexplored–from rock to punk, and the experimental to all that Jazz. His work with Bernard Purdie, John Zorn, Bad Brains, the Beastie Boys, and Bill Laswell, to name a few, have put Saft into the Musician’s Musician club–a very good place to be. His latest efforts have found him in good company with fellow heavyweights Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte, not to mention the incomparable punk icon Iggy Pop on the mic, all of which you’ll hear.

Ron Carter you’ve heard countless times and if you haven’t we don’t know where you’ve been. He’s a legend–his bass playing provides the pulse and groove of countless classics and infinite samples for hip hop and electronica. He’s been name checked and enlisted by everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Gil Scott-Heron and Miles Davis. He’s a leader and an artist with over 2000 sessions under his belt and he continues to this day. He joined us to talk abut one of his recent recordings, The Brown Beatnik Tomes with Def Poetry’s Danny Simmons. Curious eardrums will be delighted.