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Robert Sabin
Sabin wrote his Ph.D. dissertation “Gary Peacock: Analysis of Progressive Double Bass 1963-1965” while studying with Peacock from 2009-2014. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the bassist and of the early 1960s New York City Avant-Garde.
As an educator, Sabin serves on the Facutly of Hunter College High School, Manhattan School of Music Precollege, and has directed the Jazz Program at the New York Summer Music Festival and Institute. He has also served on the faculty of New York University, Teachers College/Columbia University, and the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival.He has served as a guest lecturer at CUNY, and the Manhattan School of Music. He is also a New York Pops Teaching Artist, serving as clinician, private instructor, and conductor for high school and college ensembles across New York City.
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John Yao: Off-Kilter
by Mark Corroto
In all great ensemble recordings one pays no attention to the compositions and arrangements. The music just seems to dance without inhibitions and flow over the ears. Correction: excellent ensemble performances compel one to recognize and appreciate the compositions and arrangements. With composer, arranger, trombonist John Yao both statements are true and both are in opposition to each other. Proof being Off-Kilter, the second release by his Triceratops ensemble. It follows How We Do (See Tao Recordings, 2019) and includes ...
Continue ReadingRobert Sabin: Humanity Part II
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by Jack Bowers
Although Humanity Part II, the oracular title of bassist Robert Sabin's new album, may summon images of a Mel Brooks parody (Part I must have slipped past us), the music itself is decidedly serious. In the liner notes, wherein he references Albert Camus, Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, Ingmar Bergman, Maurice Ravel and Dario Argento, Sabin makes it quite clear that he and his tentet are scanning a road map that traverses musical pathways visibly (and audibly) removed from customary ports ...
Continue ReadingRobert Sabin: Humanity Part II
by Troy Collins
Robert Sabin has a dark side. Although the New York-based bassist regularly serves as a sideman to such luminaries as Oliver Lake and Luis Bonilla, Sabin has revealed an abiding fascination with horror throughout his career, as documented on his 2005 Ranula Music debut Killdozer, based on Marvin Heemeyer's infamous armored bulldozer rampage in Colorado the previous year, and his 2007 sophomore follow-up Romero, an ode to George Romero's apocalyptic zombie films. Humanity Part II continues Sabin's investigation ...
Continue ReadingRobert Sabin: Romero
by Troy Collins
Romero, bassist Robert Sabin's rousing and contemplative tribute to director George Romero's famous zombie films, yields an unusual, effective combination of two seemingly disparate disciplines, jazz and horror movies. Drawing inspiration from the classic trilogy of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985), Sabin uses Romero's ripe cinematic metaphors assessing the frailty of the human condition as a thematic framework. Like Romero's films, his sophisticated compositions reveal a ...
Continue ReadingRobert Sabin: Romero
by Mark F. Turner
New York bassist Robert Sabin's Romero continues to deliver music that jolts the ears and psyche, as first heard on the 2005 recording Killdozer . This time around the music draws inspiration from none other than horror film director George A. Romero, whose cult classics include Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978).Nothing is quite like a jazz musician playing outside of the mainstream music (e.g. Miles Davis' later years). Sabin and the ...
Continue ReadingRobert Sabin: Killdozer
by Mark F. Turner
Killdozer is the collision of a warped (in a good way) jazz bassist with a free saxophonist and a purple-hazed hot guitarist. For those who already know bassist and educator Robert Sabin, this will come as no surprise. He's been involved in many projects in the New York music scene with Brain Spray, Spirit Gang and his own “avant goth electric neo jazz group, featured on this eponymous 2005 release. Name your poison--jazz rock or punk jazz--but ...
Continue ReadingBassist/Composer Robert Sabin's "Humanity Part II" To Be Released By Ranula Music July 14
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For his bewitching new album Humanity Part II, bassist, composer, and film music aficionado Robert Sabin assembled a brass-heavy tentet in service of a dark, glacial, cinematic sound. The CD, Sabin’s third in ten years, will be released on his Ranula Music label July 14. “I love the way film music invokes states of mind that you carry from the film, things beyond the music itself,” says Sabin, whose 2007 album, Romero, grew out of his obsession with the zombie ...
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Free MP3 from Robert Sabin's "Romero" at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Track ZWKDD Windows: Right Click > Save As / Mac: Control + Click Artist/Band Robert Sabin Duration 05:33 Album Romero Record Label Ranula Music Description Having been familiar with most of his work from an early age (a local video store let ...
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Bassist Robert Sabin Releases "Romero" on Ranula Music
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All About Jazz
This recording represents a year of watching and re-watching exclusively the films of George A. Romero.
Having been familiar with most of his work from an early age (a local video store let me rent Creepshow when I was 9), I became re-obsessed with Romero's work in 2005 when I discovered the director's commentary track to Day of the Dead. The insights provided by Mr. Romero and Mr. Savini illuminated central characteristics of Mr. Romero's work; the appetite necessary when ...
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Bass
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As an educator, Sabin serves on the Facutly of Hunter College High School, Manhattan School of Music Precollege, and has directed the Jazz Program at the New York Summer Music Festival and Institute. He has also served on the faculty of New York University, Teachers College/Columbia University, and the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival.He has served as a guest lecturer at CUNY, and the Manhattan School of Music. He is also a New York Pops Teaching Artist, serving as clinician, private instructor, and conductor for high school and college ensembles across New York City
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From: Off-KilterBy Robert Sabin
Ghost
From: Humanity Part IIBy Robert Sabin
ZWKDD
From: RomeroBy Robert Sabin
Notes From Underground
From: KilldozerBy Robert Sabin
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Robert Sabin
Instrument: Bass
Born: October 27, 1972
Publicist: Terri Hinte Publicity
