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Jerome 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 ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: One Two Three
by Warren Allen
French tenor man Jerome Sabbagh has been exploring the sax trio format around New York City clubs for more than five years. One Two Three takes a selection of standards--some well-known, others less so--and gives them a good old-fashioned workout in the studio. The results are quality; like good red wine, it only gets better the more you drink it in. And it also shows that classic jazz is as full of life and vitality as ever, provided it's in ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: One Two Three
by Elliott Simon
The opening cut on One Two Three is pianist George Shearing's bop classic “Conception". Do not, however, let this fool you. Although tenorist Jerome Sabbagh burns, this is not simply a blowing session nor is it really, as Sabbagh suggests, his take on the standards. While there are tunes such as a somewhat campy (how could it not be?) version of “Tea for Two," a fresh reprise of Coleman Hawkins' classic interpretation of “Body and Soul" and a bopped-up “Just ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: Pogo
by Budd Kopman
Under a coolness that is felt on the surface of the music, saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh--on the fine release Pogo--creates a tension that is expertly controlled. Intent on developing a style that is personal and recognizable, Sabbagh composes and plays from a core that seems at first tightly controlled. However, that which seems to be reticence turns out to be but the origin of many fiery emotions. Maintaining the same band as on North (Fresh Sound New Talent, ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh at The Jazz Standard, New York City
by Budd Kopman
Jerome Sabbagh QuartetThe Jazz StandardNew York, NYTuesday, April 24, 2007 This gig was to celebrate the release of Sabbagh's latest album Pogo on the Sunnyside label. Maintaining the same band (Ben Monder: guitar, Joe Martin: bass, Ted Poor: drums) as on his previous release North (FSNT, 2005), Sabbagh (tenor and soprano saxophone) continues to expand the influences on his playing while at the same time honing his compositional and performance identity. ...
Continue ReadingJerome Sabbagh: Pogo
by Mark F. Turner
On Pogo, French-born saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh remembers the wise lesson that “If it's not broken; don't fix it. Though his recording label has changed, this release consists of the same quartet members and eclectic formula that made his acclaimed release North (2004, Fresh Sound New Talent) such a success. A thorough technician with control and lyricism, Sabbagh's saxophone may seem slightly obscured but is seemingly focused more on the development of his compositions and the group's sound, ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Jerome Sabbagh
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jerome Sabbagh: Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris in 1973 and has been living in New York for eleven years. After stints as a co-leader with the collective Flipside (with whom he worked for five years and recorded an album for Naxos Jazz), and sideman work with Laurent Coq and Guillermo Klein, Jerome Sabbagh has been leading his own band for the last four years.Jerome Sabbagh's first album as a leader, North, with Ben ...
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