Jerome Sabbagh Trio featuring Victor Lewis
Tuesday, February 23rd, 8:30 pm
Centre culturel franco-manitobain
(340 Provencher boulevard, Saint-Boniface)
In the context of the “Jazz à la Française” series, the Alliance Française du Manitoba, in partnership with the Centre Culturel franco-manitobain, invites you to the concert of the Jerome Sabbagh Trio featuring Victor Lewis on Tuesday, February 23rd, 8:30 pm at the CCFM.
Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris, France in 1973, and moved to New York in 1995. There he formed the Flipside collective with guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Darren Beckett. They recorded an eponymous album for Naxos Jazz. Since then, Jerome Sabbagh has been writing music and leading his own band, recording three albums: Pogo, North, and One Two Three, his latest to date. As a sideman, Jerome has performed with pianist Laurent Coq’s quartet and Guillermo Klein’s Los Guachos. He has also played in bands led by Jean-Michel Pilc and Magali Souriau. He participates in many festivals, such asthe Newport Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris, and the Marciac, Belfast, and Medellin (Columbia) Jazz Festival . He ha performed on Radio France in Paris, as well as in legendary venues such as the Blues Alley, the Jazz Standard, the Jazz Gallery, the Smalls, the Fat Cat, Bar 55 and even the Birdland in New York… Jerome Sabbagh has played with several groups, but it is with the Trio, with which he recorded the album One Two Three, that has becomes clear his genius of mastery and the depth of heritage of jazz, simultaneously strong and gritty. There, imagination, musical skill and endurance are at their peak. One two three captures this ambiance intact. The album, recorded under concert conditions, is a rough diamond that focuses on the fundamentals of jazz: melody, rhythm and harmonic improvisation, with which Jerome Sabbagh develops his own vocabulary, expressive and authentic. | Internationally acclaimed drummer and composer Victor Lewis was born on May 20th, 1950 in Nebraska, son of a saxophonist father and a pianist-singer mother. He arrived in New York, world capital of jazz, on September 16th, 1974, with $200, a bag, and instruments. He then met the trumpet player Woody Shaw, and recorded with the group Shaw’s classiq for the first time. He also starts get his footing in the booming areas of pop and fusion jazz, and records several albums. In 1980, Victor left Shaw’s group to join another key figure of the music, Stan Getz. At the end of the eighties, Lewis is one of the most in-demand jazzmen . He has toured and recorded with the big names such as Kenny Barron, Art Farmer, JJ Johnson, Mike Stern, John Stubblefield, Grover Washington Jr., The Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Bobby Hutcherson and Bobby Watson… One also finds him in more and more recording studios. Besides concerts, he records with artists such as Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Johnny Griffin, Janis Siegel, Larry Willis, John Hicks and Abbey Lincoln or Fred Lipse. Het also tries to pass on his knowledge by giving private lessons or acting as an independent instructor at the Jazz New School University School-Baskets School Program Musique Jazz in New York City, and at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Victor then starts to record his own compositions under his own name and with his unique style. |
Jerome Sabbagh: saxophone
Ben Street : double bass
Victor Lewis : drums
Jerome Sabbagh links: www.jeromesabbagh.com and www.myspace.com/jeromesabbagh
“This tour is organized with support from the Délégation Générale de l’Alliance Française aux Etats-Unis » |
- 30 - Source : Philippe Baudet / Centre culturel franco-manitobain / Tel : 233-8972 |
For more information, please contact : Odette Lours / Cultural coordinator / culturelst@afwpg.ca Philippe Baudet / Communication and marketing coordinator / marketing@ccfm.mb.ca |