Featuring JOZEF DUMOULIN – Keyboards, PATRICE BLANCHARD – Electric Bass & RUDY ROYSTON – Drums
Jérôme Sabbagh, PLUGGED IN
CD Release
May 9th
Cornelia St Cafe
8:30PM
With PETE RENDE, Keyboards
The simple act of “plugging in” is easy to take for granted, but it provides power, illumination, charge; the same could be said for connecting a power cord or for the meeting of creative minds. On Plugged In (Bee Jazz), his fifth album as a leader, French-born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist Jérôme Sabbagh discovers the spark of inspiration provided by both, assembling an exhilarating electric quartet and collaborating with the jaw-dropping Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin.
The result is an album that is all about electrifying connections – that between Sabbagh and Dumoulin, the intense grooves forged by Martinique-born bassist Patrice Blanchard and American drummer Rudy Royston, the conjunction of the electric and the lyrical, the raw edge of rock girding the sophisticated communication of jazz. Continue reading
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