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Jerome Sabbagh: The Turn
by Glenn Astarita
This is one of three bands tenor saxophonist, Jerome Sabbagh leads amid his numerous gigs as a session artist and group member with pianists Laurent Coq and Guillermo Klein, paired with many other diverse musical roles in the modern jazz community. This quartet strikes back with its third album, following Pogo (Sunnyside, 2007) and North (Sunnyside, 2004). Besides his burly tone, melodic structures and fluent improvisational acumen, one of the key differentiators is how Sabbagh transparently melds modern mainstream with ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Jerome Sabbagh L'empatia. AAJ La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. J.S. La mancanza di paure. AAJ Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice. J.S. Quando non penso, e succedono cose inaspettate. AAJ Come musicista, il mio principale difetto. J.S. L'andare per tentativi, pensare troppo. ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: The Turn
by Luigi Sforza
Non di rado il processo di elaborazione creativa parte dalla riformulazione di materiale preesistente, il quale assemblato in forma nuova può dar vita ad opere che assumono connotati affatto originali. Ciò che il tenor sassofonista francese di stanza a New York dal 1995 Jerome Sabbagh ha fatto nel suo ultimo disco -The Turn-è stato potenziare con sensibilità contemporanea la carica espressiva di alcuni concetti sonori riconducibili alla grande tradizione moderna del jazz. Il disco cattura l'essenza del passato, parafrasa ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: Plugged In
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il saxofonista francese (ma di base a New York) Jerome Sabbagh organizza un quartetto di grande duttilità per dar vita a Plugged In, un album dove si incontrano mainstream e situazioni chiaroscurali, che si alternano a momenti dal taglio maggiormente più introspettivo e di ricerca. Sono ben quattordici le tracce in scaletta, nelle quali il leader - che ne firma la metà - riesce a mostrare la sua versatilità timbrica cambiando spesso registro espressivo, passando da languide melodie a scatti ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: Plugged In
by Glenn Astarita
New York City-based tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh has made the rounds by performing with a who's who of modern jazz artists amid his flourishing career as a solo artist. Possessing a stout tone and commanding presence, the artist's lyrically resplendent phraseology is often a good fit for a variety of jazz settings, including mainstream and the outside realm. With his acoustic-electric quartet, Sabbagh enjoys a notable affiliation with Belgian keyboard virtuoso Jozef Dumoulin, who spawns a polytonal, electronics vista, complete ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh featuring Jozef Dumoulin: Plugged In
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Plugged In is an immensely appealing record and an artistic success. The source of that success is the revelatory combination of the highly individual--and at first blush, not necessarily compatible--sounds of saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin.Sabbagh has had a string of critically-acclaimed albums, notably including North (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2005) and Pogo (Sunnyside, 2007), both of which featured guitarist Ben Monder. On these and other records, Sabbagh comes across as a poster child for the ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh / Ben Monder / Daniel Humair: I Will Follow You
by Mark Corroto
How do you cook up innovative and inspiring jazz these days? Take a standard quintet and peel away the bassist (time keeper), then eliminate the pianist or chordal steward, and you are left with maybe the purest form of improvisation and interaction: the jazz trio. Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's trinity, heard on I Will Follow You, includes guitarist Ben Monder and drummer Daniel Humair.Sabbagh is a French-born tenor/soprano saxophonist who now lives in Brooklyn. His previous discs--the standards sax/bass/drums ...
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