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North

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. North, 2. Follow the Light, 3. Extatik Eztetik,4. Indian Song, 5. Sick Leo, 6. Trip, 7. Hymn,8. Every Now and Then, 9. Not Quite Blue

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With 31-year-old saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh, the Fresh Sound New Talent label presents yet another startlingly good young jazz musician. The French tenor man has a mature conception with a light, clean sound that reminds these ears of Hank Mobley. Like Mobley, Sabbagh chooses notes judiciously and swings firmly. And Sabbagh and North grow stronger and deeper ...

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Jerome Sabbagh: North

by Phil DiPietro
November 21, 2004

Multifarious elements differentiate Brooklyn-by-way-of-Paris' Jerome Sabbagh from the tenor-playing pack, such as forward-thinking, tradition-rejecting compositions that bring to mind the “big O," as in organic. Another, more obvious element distinguishing this session is the presence of Brooklyn's own Ben Monder in what has to rank as the premier performance by a sideman in 2004. It's simply ...

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