Keyboardist Jamie Saft's closest associations have been with drummer Bobby Previte as a long-term sideman and John Zorn, a kinship that revolves around ideas of making contemporary Jewish music for Zorn's Tzadik label. New Zion Trio is ostensibly a piano trio but you expect a New York downtown musician such as Saft to buck the trends. The band is a hybrid of dub reggae ‘riddum’ and Saft's echoeffected piano and Rhodes keys, pitched somewhere between Jarrett at Köln and the blissed-out harmonies and glissando effects of a cosmic jazz era Lonnie Liston Smith or Alice Coltrane. Tuned into the same kind of spacey frequency, this unlikely alliance feels like a perfectly natural one. Saft has much to say in spite of the static trance dance harmonic background, while double bassist Larry Grenadier is the surprise package – he's not someone you'd think of as having reggae band sideman credits on his CV – but he digs in superbly alongside roots reggae master drummer Craig Santiago. It's what might have ended up had Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry lugged his sound system into an early-1970s Impulse recording studio.