Jesse Hartman

This article is about the musician, filmmaker, and actor. For the Pennsylvania Congressman, see Jesse Lee Hartman.

Jesse Hartman is an American musician, film maker and actor, living in New York's East Village.

Career

Music

Hartman formed the band Sammy with Luke Wood (where Hartman co-wrote, sang, and played guitar and keyboards), releasing Debut Album (1994), Kings of the Inland Empire (1995) and Tales of Great Neck Glory (1996). Sammy came out of an earlier group called Worrying Thing where Wood sang most of the vocals and Hartman played lead guitar. Hartman sang on one song called "In Filth," which was later rerecorded as Sammy's first single, "Evergladed."

Hartman went on to form the rock/electro group Laptop in 1997, releasing an EP, End Credits, in 1997, followed by the single "Gimme The Nite" in 1998. "End Credits" garnered airplay on BBC Radio 1's Evening Session. The song used samples of Hartman's ex-girlfriend's answering machine. The Laptop single Nothing to Declare spent one week at #74 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1999.[1]

Hartman was then signed to a recording contract by Island Records and released two singles ("Nothing to Declare" and "I'm So Happy You Failed", both in 1999), before leaving the label. He eventually joined Trust Me Records and released the albums Opening Credits (2000), The Old Me vs. The New You (2001), and Don't Try This At Home (2003). As of 2022, Hartman has been working on new Laptop material to release in 2024 and beyond. On May 30, 2025, the first single from the fourth Laptop album, "Weirder," was released.

Film

As a filmmaker, Hartman has written and directed Happy Hour (1993, Best Short Film Award Berlin Intl. Film Festival) and House of Satisfaction (2008), made documentaries for MSNBC's Edgewise (1997, opening night selection of Rotterdam Intl. Film Festival), and produced Kelly Reichardt's debut indie feature film River of Grass, which premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.[2]

As an actor, Hartman has been in Larry Fessenden's vampire film Habit[3] and House of Satisfaction (2008), which he also wrote and directed.[4]

References

  1. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 312. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ Stevenson, Jonathan (7 March 2016). "River of Grass and the Unassuming Brilliance of Kelly Reichardt". BK Mag. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  3. ^ "`HABIT' IS A VAMPIRE STORY, OR MAYBE IT'S NOT". Hartford Courant. 28 January 1998. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  4. ^ "House of Satisfaction". Montreal Gazette. 9 October 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2026.

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