''Ragged Jack'' is an album by keyboardist Jamie Saft and trumpeter

Cuong Vu Cuong Vu (Cường Vũ) (born 19 September 1969) is a Vietnamese-American jazz trumpeter. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Vu was a member of the Pat Metheny Group. He is the first American person of Vietnamese descent to win a Grammy ...

which was released on the Japanese Avant label in 1997.Jamie Saft discography
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Reception

In his review for

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, Nitsuh Abebe notes that "The resulting sessions have a fractured bop feel that might be marginally influenced by the downtown scene, but tend more toward solid, "traditional" free-jazz".

Track listing

''All compositions by Cuong Vu except as indicated'' # "Garbo" - 5:05 # "Mr. Mister" (Jamie Saft) - 7:10 # "Little Vina" - 9:58 # "The Schmucklehead" - 12:50 # "Mahunk" (Saft) - 4:38 # "In Hear" (Andrew D'Angelo) - 6:06 # "Or Anything Else" (D'Angelo) - 4:18 # "Karin" (Saft) - 8:56 # "Jack's in the House" - 3:22

Personnel

* Jamie Saft -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Andrew D'Angelo -

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

* Jim Black -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

References

{{Authority control Avant Records albums Jamie Saft albums 1997 albums 1997 collaborative albums