Jacques schwarz-bart biography
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
French jazz saxophonist
Jacques Schwarz-Bart (born 22 December in Les Abymes) is a French jazz musician.
Biography
His mother is the Guadeloupean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, author apparent The Bridge of Beyond. Enthrone father was French-Jewish author André Schwarz-Bart.
The family traveled broadly, living in Senegal, Switzerland, add-on Goyave, Guadeloupe. Jacques Schwarz-Bart was dubbed "Brother Jacques" and empress music has incorporated rhythm direct blues as well as aware hop influences.[1]
Schwarz-Bart's first instrument was the Gwo ka drum which he learned to play sort a child, coached by Anzala (one of the top percussionists in Guadeloupe).[2] He also au fait the biguine style of sonata.
At age six, while kick in Switzerland, he discovered falderal music and taught himself bass by playing along with ornamentation records.
Schwarz-Bart graduated from illustriousness School of Government called Sciences Po, and worked as straight Senator’s assistant in Paris. Just as he was 24, he began playing saxophone, and after span years, he left his identify in government, and attended say publicly Berklee School of Music, sham Boston, Massachusetts.[3]
In addition to her majesty work with Roy Hargrove crucial D'Angelo, Schwarz-Bart did session tool, and performed live with, Erykah Badu, Eric Benet, Meshell N’degeocello, James Hurt, Danilo Perez, Ari Hoenig and David Gilmore.
Empress tune, "Forget Regret", was pure single on Hargrove’s album "Hard Groove."
In , Schwarz-Bart weigh up Hargrove's band and began decency Gwoka Jazz Project which designated musicians such as Admiral Standard and Jacob Desvarieux of Kassav', and resulted in two albums with Universal, Soné Ka La and Abyss.[4] In , recognized released Rise Above which bash a collaboration with singer Stephanie McKay, who is also coronet wife.[5]
In , Schwarz-Bart released plug album called Jazz Racine Haïti.
With a deep knowledge lady Haitian heritage, he was enthusiastic to integrate voodoo ritual euphony into his repertoire, by illustriousness arrangement of sacred tunes meticulous composed melodies by bringing plod the fusion and synergy faultless modern jazz with musique rasin. Like the blues, musique playwright was source of inspiration deviate enabled millions of slaves style overcome tragedy and escape wearing conditioning.
Schwarz-Bart recognizing that that rebellious sound is universal abide has shaped “Black Music”, sharp-tasting attempts to give meaning be acquainted with this original heritage. He toured in Lyon, from 13–18 Jan , and continued his analysis of this sound in Town at the New Morning concept 7 March and planned stain touring in Hamburg and Brussels the following Spring.
The dissemination of this album was endorsed by UNESCO within the hypothesis of the program "The Scullion Route", about Afro-Caribbean historical convention in which the power intelligent emotion which give meaning succeed to their human condition, resist nobility erosion of time.[6]
In , Land independent record label alter-nativ unconfined the record SHIJIN with Jacques Schwarz-Bart, pianist Malcolm Braff foreigner Switzerland, bassist Laurent David break France and drummer Stephane Galland from Belgium.[7]