Jerome Sabbagh

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Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris, France in 1973. He studied with Philippe Chagne, Eric Barret and Jean-Louis Chautemps before moving to the States at the age of 20. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship for two years and studying with, among others, George Garzone, Bill Pierce, Dave Liebman and the legendary Joe Viola, he moved to New York in 1995. There he formed the collective Flipside with guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Darren Beckett. They were together for five years, toured Europe and New Zealand and recorded an eponymous album for Naxos Jazz. Since then, Jerome Sabbagh has been writing music and leading his own bands. As a regular sideman, Jerome has been involved with pianist Laurent Coq's quartet along with bassist Brandon Owens and drummer Damion Reid, Guillermo Klein's Los Guachos and Pablo
Ablanedo's Octet. He has also played in bands led by Jean-Michel Pilc and Magali Souriau. Jerome has performed in many festivals including the JVC Jazz Festival (Paris), Jazz In Marciac (France), Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Medellin (Columbia), and at venues such as Blues Alley (Washington), the Jazz Standard, the Jazz Gallery, Fat Cat, the 55 Bar, the Knitting Factory, Birdland (New York), Sunside, Duc des Lombards, Sceaux What, Cithéa (France).


           

 

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