Reviews:
"Doom Jazz" is a concept turning around four people. Andrea Kleine, who wrotes the storylines, Marq Spusta, who did the story-artworks, and two extremely talented musicians who wrotes and played the soundtrack, Jamie Saft (bass and piano) and Bobby Previte (drums). The name "Doom Jazz" represents perfectly the music played by the duo in the way it mixes the slow and creepy rhythms of doom metal with the explorations and deepness of jazz. On the one hand it will appeal to those who like atmospheric doom death, funeral doom or depressive black metal, and on the other hand it will surely please to those who like free-jazz or even contemporary music in the vein of many JOHN ZORN's works. The main thing that emerges from the listening of this opus is the dark, frightful and tortured feeling that many doom albums can't even approach. The whole stuff is based upon the contrast between the quite repetitive bass lines and the staggering drums, with piano notes coming here and there to create the gloomy atmospheres. A splendid album made by genius. Just close your eyes and dive into the doom jazz.
How shall I put it ?... This is an incredible record from outter space ! This headblowing duo consists in Jamie Saft on keyboards and bass (ELECTRIC MASADA, JAMIE SAFT TRIO and others) and Mike Pride on drums, voice and other flutes. The album features 2 cds and more than 2 hours of ground-shaking low-pitched cocktail of doom metal and noise. Influences seem to come from black metal, death metal, doom metal, blues, noise and free-jazz, but in the end it appears to be far more than just a melting-pot. It's more experimental than black and death, doomier than doom, more extreme than both noise and jazz, and maybe crazier than any other musical style. This crazyness comes from contrast between some repetitive bass lines and Pride's improvisations on drums, but also from the alien voices and the diversity of the whole stuff. An opus like no one else, for unique listeners.
At Winter Jazz Fest, I saw him play organ in his Whoopie Pie band, which is more or less a saxophone trio a la doom-metal, and it kind of blew my mind.
Keyboardist Jamie Saft's Whoopie Pie, featuring drummer Mike Pride and saxophonist Bill McHenry, treated jazz as though it were metal. The elevated decibel levels, the aggression, and the aura of doom were all present, although so were some deconstructed elements of jazz: late in the set, Saft walked a bass line on a synthesizer, and Pride played something of a ride cymbal pattern to match.