Jazz Articles about Jerome Sabbagh

About Jerome Sabbagh

Multiple Reviews

Jerome Sabbagh: Purity Of Intent

by Doug Collette
January 20, 2026

The extent to which a musician expends effort to develop his own voice usually correlates to the depth of expression that eventually emanates from the personal style thereof. So it is with saxophonist/composer/bandleader Jerome Sabbagh who, in the years he has spent nurturing his profile in the New York City jazz world, has concentrated on learning from a diversity of musicians in a variety of settings. Having thus played with rhythm experts Paul Motian, Bill Stewart and Rudy Royston and ...

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Jerome Sabbagh: Stand Up!

Read "Stand Up!" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
December 18, 2025

While much great jazz has emerged from one-off encounters among musicians, there is a lot to be said for the synergy of longstanding working bands. The former may provide more spontaneity and produce fireworks, but it can also lead to the occasional dud due to a mismatch in approach. Players in a working band, in contrast, gain a deep knowledge of each other's artistic choices, learn what works and what does not, and--by definition--must be doing something right, since their ...

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Jerome Sabbagh: Heart

by Chris May
August 16, 2024

AAJ occasionally publishes reviews which call out the barbarism of digital-only albums (Heart is not one of these, please hang on in there). Item: the review of Brazilian saxophonist and flautist Vinicius Mendes' Macunaismo Tardio Vol. 1&2 (Notes On A Journey, 2024). The two albums collected on that vinyl double-LP, blinders both, were originally released separately as digital-only albums. Unsurprisingly, each failed to make any significant impact on jazz audiences either in Brazil or internationally. Notes On A Journey eventually ...

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Pablo Ablanedo: Christreza

Read "Christreza" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 26, 2021

This LP clocks in at around 38-minutes and is a bit of a tease since it progresses rather quickly and may leave many listeners wanting more. Here, Argentine-reared pianist/composer/educator Pablo Ablanedo's compositional gifts often take on cinematic film scoring intonations and developments, executed with jazz luminaries who the artist met while attending the Berklee College of Music in 1999. Owing to his heritage, the leader infuses subtle Latin jazz foreground grooves into several movements, whereas the opener “La ...

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Jerome Sabbagh & Greg Tuohey: No Filter

Read "No Filter" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
October 4, 2019

Il titolo di questo lavoro, cofirmato dal sassofonista Jerome Sabbagh e dal chitarrista Greg Tuohey, rimanda alla precisa intenzione di evitare, in sede di registrazione, qualsiasi tipo di effetto, sovraincisione ed editing, così da poter catturare il suono così come sgorgava dagli strumenti nel corso dell'interazione dei musicisti. Una scelta in controtendenza con quanto si è oggi soliti fare, ma in che certo modo rimanda anche alla storia dei due leaders, conosciutisi nel corso degli anni Novanta e poi persisi ...

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Jerome Sabbagh and Greg Tuohey: No Filter

Read "No Filter" reviewed by Peter J. Hoetjes

by Peter J. Hoetjes
November 29, 2018

So much regard is given to audio quality in the 21st century that there has become something of an obsession with “purity." A desire for music that has no digital manipulation, no computers layering sounds together. As co-band leaders, Jerome Sabbagh and Greg Tuohey resolved to attain this quality on No Filter by recording the album without edits or overdubs, directly to analog tape. Everything the listener hears was captured in one take, on paper suggesting a live ...

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Jerome Sabbagh, Simon Jermyn, Allison Miller: Lean

Read "Lean" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 7, 2017

Jerome Sabbagh fa parte di quella folta schiera di musicisti non usi alle luci dei riflettori mediatici o alle prime pagine, ma particolarmente stimati dai colleghi (non a caso Paul Motian lo volle fortemente nel nuovo trio messo in piedi poco prima della sua scomparsa). Se il suo biglietto da visita come leader è il quartetto nato nel 2004 con Ben Monder, Ted Poor e Joe Martin (tre album all'attivo particolarmente apprezzati dalla critica), interessante ci sembra anche questo trio ...