“Mr. Sabbagh played with untroubled self-assurance, and his songs had a sleek and sturdy appeal. [...] What he is working toward, simply and effectively, is a sincerely personal vocabulary.”

New York Times

“The willfully lyrical tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh is the rarest of rare birds: a young tenor saxophonist with a distinctive concept, dependent not so much on his elders for inspiration as his own imagination.”

JazzTimes