Stand Up!
Jerome Sabbagh, Ben Monder, Joe Martin, Nasheet Waits
Compact Disc
Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Award for New LP/Tape for 2025
Selected in The Absolute Sound Ten Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The analog to digital transfer for our Compact Discs is made from the master tape by Bernie Grundman on a JCF Latte converter, directly at 44.1/24. This method requires a dedicated pass from the tape, in real time. It eschews downsampling and we think it sounds better. The dithering from 24 bits to 16 bits is done through a Lavry 3000S. We also prefer using this older but great sounding external processor to software solutions.
Track Listing:
1. Lone Jack (for Ray Charles and Pete Rende) 6:02
2. Michelle’s Song (for Michelle Egan) 4:20
3. Lunar Cycle (for Sam Rivers) 4:18
4. The Break Song (for Stevie Wonder) 5:06
5. High Falls (for Meaghan Glennan) 5:57
6. Mosh Pit (for Trent Reznor) 3:21
7. Vanguard (for Paul Motian) 5:17
8. Unbowed (for Kenny Barron) 5:23
Total Time: 39:43
Jerome Sabbagh (tenor saxophone), Ben Monder (guitar), Joe Martin (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)
About Stand Up!
Jerome Sabbagh reconvenes his longstanding quartet for the first time in more than a decade for the timely Stand Up!. With all original compositions by Sabbagh, the album features guitarist Ben Monder, bassist Joe Martin, and new addition, drummer Nasheet Waits. The album was recorded by James Farber at Power Station, direct to analog tape and mastered by Bernie Grundman.
Album Reviews
"Stand Up! is a triumph for Jerome Sabbagh and for Analog Tone Factory. It combines expressive, thoughtful jazz writing with a recording philosophy that honors the purity of acoustic performance. For audiophiles, it offers a rare chance to hear contemporary jazz captured with true-to-life realism. For music fans, it’s a richly satisfying listen from a quartet of exceptional players. Highly recommended!”
- Scott Wilson, Audiophilia
"Featuring a great band led by Jerome Sabbagh, Stand Up! is not only a record of great sonics, but fundamentally a record of great ideas. Jazz is alive and moving forward!"
- Felipe Salles, Jazzbums
"The combination of compositional focus, collective musicianship, and audiophile realization makes this album a vital release. Stand Up! is the assured statement of a musician who has honed his aesthetic principles over years and now – supported by an ensemble of the highest musical intelligence – demonstrates how contemporary jazz can be deeply rooted, alive, and open at the same time. It is a work of authenticity, warmth, and clarity [...] The quartet seems so close you feel as if you can sense the air in the recording space. Rarely do modern analog productions achieve such immediacy."
- Michael Haifl, Saiten Kult
"Having lived in New York for three decades, the French saxophonist has reached a rare level of maturity over the years, expressed through a lyricism that is both intense and restrained […] Immediately noticeable, from the first notes of "Lone Jack", is the modernity of this music, whose character remains nonetheless essentially timeless.”
- Pascal Rozat, Jazz Magazine (“Choc” review)
“Sabbagh writes mellow, memorable melodies rooted in blues with a slight country feel and the band plays them with patient grace. Monder is an excellent foil/co-leader."
- Phil Freeman, Stereogum
Production Credits
All compositions by Jerome Sabbagh (SACEM)
Recorded by James Farber at Power Station, New York, live to 1/2 inch two track analog tape on a custom tube Ampex 351 at 30 ips, November 7, 2024
Assistant Engineers: Pete Rende, Matthew Soares, Omisha Chaitanya
Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood
Produced by Jerome Sabbagh & Pete Rende
Executive Producer: Ana Mighty Sound
Graphic Design: Element-s/Jérôme Witz
Photos by Michele Palazzo
Band & Session Photography by Adrien H. Tillmann
Analog Tone Factory would like to thank John Chester, Dave Dintenfass, James Farber, Bernie Grundman, Tim Chapman, François Saint-Gérand, David Smith, Marie Griffin, Beattie-Powers Place and the NY State Council on the Arts.
Special Thanks to Ana Mighty Sound for supporting Analog Tone Factory from the very beginning, and for continuing to do so.
This album is dedicated to my early teachers, without whom I would not play music: Annick Chartreux, Philippe Chagne, Jean-Louis Chautemps and Eric Barret.
Stand Up!
Jerome Sabbagh, Ben Monder, Joe Martin and Nasheet Waits
Compact Disc
Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Award for New LP/Tape for 2025
Selected in The Absolute Sound Ten Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The analog to digital transfer for our Compact Discs is made from the master tape by Bernie Grundman on a JCF Latte converter, directly at 44.1/24. This method requires a dedicated pass from the tape, in real time. It eschews downsampling and we think it sounds better. The dithering from 24 bits to 16 bits is done through a Lavry 3000S. We also prefer using this older but great sounding external processor to software solutions.
Track Listing:
1. Lone Jack (for Ray Charles and Pete Rende) 6:02
2. Michelle’s Song (for Michelle Egan) 4:20
3. Lunar Cycle (for Sam Rivers) 4:18
4. The Break Song (for Stevie Wonder) 5:06
5. High Falls (for Meaghan Glennan) 5:57
6. Mosh Pit (for Trent Reznor) 3:21
7. Vanguard (for Paul Motian) 5:17
8. Unbowed (for Kenny Barron) 5:23
Total Time: 39:43
Jerome Sabbagh (tenor saxophone), Ben Monder (guitar), Joe Martin (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)
About Stand Up!
Jerome Sabbagh reconvenes his longstanding quartet for the first time in more than a decade for the timely Stand Up!. With all original compositions by Sabbagh, the album features guitarist Ben Monder, bassist Joe Martin, and new addition, drummer Nasheet Waits. The album was recorded by James Farber at Power Station, direct to analog tape and mastered by Bernie Grundman.
Album Reviews
"Stand Up! is a triumph for Jerome Sabbagh and for Analog Tone Factory. It combines expressive, thoughtful jazz writing with a recording philosophy that honors the purity of acoustic performance. For audiophiles, it offers a rare chance to hear contemporary jazz captured with true-to-life realism. For music fans, it’s a richly satisfying listen from a quartet of exceptional players. Highly recommended!”
- Scott Wilson, Audiophilia
"Featuring a great band led by Jerome Sabbagh, Stand Up! is not only a record of great sonics, but fundamentally a record of great ideas. Jazz is alive and moving forward!"
- Felipe Salles, Jazzbums
"The combination of compositional focus, collective musicianship, and audiophile realization makes this album a vital release. Stand Up! is the assured statement of a musician who has honed his aesthetic principles over years and now – supported by an ensemble of the highest musical intelligence – demonstrates how contemporary jazz can be deeply rooted, alive, and open at the same time. It is a work of authenticity, warmth, and clarity [...] The quartet seems so close you feel as if you can sense the air in the recording space. Rarely do modern analog productions achieve such immediacy."
- Michael Haifl, Saiten Kult
"Having lived in New York for three decades, the French saxophonist has reached a rare level of maturity over the years, expressed through a lyricism that is both intense and restrained […] Immediately noticeable, from the first notes of "Lone Jack", is the modernity of this music, whose character remains nonetheless essentially timeless.”
- Pascal Rozat, Jazz Magazine (“Choc” review)
“Sabbagh writes mellow, memorable melodies rooted in blues with a slight country feel and the band plays them with patient grace. Monder is an excellent foil/co-leader."
- Phil Freeman, Stereogum
Stand Up! Recording Session
Production Credits
All compositions by Jerome Sabbagh (SACEM)
Recorded by James Farber at Power Station, New York, live to 1/2 inch two track analog tape on a custom tube Ampex 351 at 30 ips, November 7, 2024
Assistant Engineers: Pete Rende, Matthew Soares, Omisha Chaitanya
Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood
Produced by Jerome Sabbagh & Pete Rende
Executive Producer: Ana Mighty Sound
Graphic Design: Element-s/Jérôme Witz
Photos by Michele Palazzo
Band & Session Photography by Adrien H. Tillmann
Analog Tone Factory would like to thank John Chester, Dave Dintenfass, James Farber, Bernie Grundman, Tim Chapman, François Saint-Gérand, David Smith, Marie Griffin, Beattie-Powers Place and the NY State Council on the Arts.
Special Thanks to Ana Mighty Sound for supporting Analog Tone Factory from the very beginning, and for continuing to do so.
This album is dedicated to my early teachers, without whom I would not play music: Annick Chartreux, Philippe Chagne, Jean-Louis Chautemps and Eric Barret.
