Jacques SchwarzBart could praising the slow

Jacques Schwarz-Bart could praising the slow. While music schools produce virtuosos more soon, he began the practice of the saxophone that twenty-four years. "It was very late and it was unlikely if I succeed, he said." I had nothing to lose. My ambition was just to play every Sunday in a small club and teaching in parallel in the schools of music. "Today, at the age of forty-seven is a young jazz musician ever to experiment and to chart new paths, like the mountaineers.

Precisely, Jacques has developed time to find his way. His parents imagined it in their image: writer. Not easy to escape the world of books when the son of André Schwarz-Bart (prix Goncourt in 1959 for "The last of the just") and of Simone Schwarz-Bart, which published, among other things, a kind of Caribbean Odyssey, "Ti - Jan the horizon". Adolescent, he imagined rather Rabbi. Later, out of Sciences po, he fumbles a little policy (Director of services to the General Council of Guadeloupe), wrote a novel (who sleeps in a drawer) and discovered jazz as it is, finally, a harmony between its Creole, French and Jewish identities. "Up to twenty - twenty - five years, I lived in difficult years, because I was never in a community: any sense of belonging was confrontational", he explains. It is when I began to work on personal projects, that I understood the privilege extraordinary power refer to cultures if different and complementary.

After his schooling in the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, he performs in the 1990s of the sensational debut with great musicians such as pianist Danilo Perez and drummer Bob Moses. But the real spark will occur one night in a club in New York, the Bradley's. While he attended a concert of Cuban pianist Chucho Valdès with American trumpeter Roy Hargrove, Jacques Schwarz-Bart is invited on stage. The two leaders, who don't know, pipent Word, each being convinced that he is one friend of the other! Follows a tour with Roy Hargrove. "It must force the chance sometimes!" fun Jacques.

In the early 2000s, it multiplies the sessions and entries, including Erykah Badu, MeShell is Degeocello, Ari Hoenig and D'Angelo, figure emblematic of the "nu-soul" who gave him his nickname: he will now be "Brother Jacques"! Since then, he expanded the boundaries of jazz: to Creole music (the gwo ka) and then to the soul. One of the chances that the musicians of today, it is access to the world, he explains. Forty years ago, it evolved in a musical style, and one died in not having never practised another.

Jacques Schwarz-Bart outside ideas. There are soon working on the mix of jazz and Jewish religious music, one that sings in synagogues, and non-music klezmer of secular influence. "I learned from my parents that he should not hurry and nothing left fallow," he says. His mother, precisely, has not given in the publication of his book Bet that many publishers bet on his multifaceted talent, already prowling around the manuscript. But the time has not come. "In the same way that I work every day saxophone, should I practice the profession of writer to be sure to have good judgement on my novel", he said. His mother will be waiting. Jacques concludes: "music makes me more heureux it makes me live.".