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Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Jacques Schwarz-Bart, or "Brother Jacques" to his friends in the jazz galaxy, is
a renowned saxophonist in New York, where he accompanies Erykah Badu, Eric
Benet, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Roy Hargrove and D'Angelo. This brilliant mind, a
graduate of Sciences-Politiques who gave up a career as a senior civil servant
for music, has released albums celebrating the marriage of jazz and the
ancestral rhythms of the gwoka. The inventor of jazz-ka distinguished himself on
the albums Soné Ka-La in 2006 and Abyss in 2008. 2010 saw the release of his
fourth opus, Rise Above, featuring soulful...
