Music:
Member Since: 3/11/2006
Band Website: brotherjacques.com
Band Members:
Lionel Loueke (guitar),
Milan Milanovic (keys),
Mark Kelley (bass),
Sonny Troupé (markè drum),
Olivier Juste (boula drum).
Influences:
Buy the album!
Sounds Like:
"Those infectious beats play a fundamental role in Soné Ka La. Sometimes Schwarz-Bart embellishes his tone with a wah wah pedal, crafting silvery textures and advanced harmonies that point towards electronica. Nervertheless, melodic cogency is always crucial to his serpentine lines."
John MURPH, Downbeat
"From straight up platinum plus jazz to jazz that shouts global awareness, Schwarz-Bart strikes every note beautifully in ’Sone Ka-La.’ Jamming with top-notch musical artisans like Milan Milanovic, Mark Kelly and Stephanie McKay, he’s got the backup to match the firepower of his blazing sax."
Mitchell OLDHAM, Rolling Out Magazine (Chicago, IL)
"Simply infectious"
Brian SOERGEL, Jazz Times
"Mr. Schwarz-Bart fuses the hard tone of John Coltrane and the young Wayne Shorter in the angular lines and asymmetrical structures atop rhythms from Guadeloupe. There is serious thought in Mr. Schwarz-Bart’s fusion."
Jon PARELES, The New York Times
"His tenor playing is inventive and colorful, his improvisations stellar throughout, and he blends beautifully with the dense African percussion, rolling rhythms and light female and huskier male native choirs."
Jonathan WIDRAN, All Music Guide
"Avant-jazz saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart has created one of a kind album. It is the Bible of world music’s ancient and modern rhythms."
Susan FRANCES / jazz review
"Schwarz-Bart soars high enough to suggest stardom is imminent."
George VARGA, The San Diego Union Tribune
"JSB is running the Voodoo down!"
BET J
"Debut of huge consequence. One of the top five world jazz discs ever recorded."
J. DENNIS "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA)
"This blend of modal jazz and Caribbean rhythms challenges the listener to accept that musical categories fail to explain that a music can stylistically be either and both seamless and original."
Brian DRING, The Beat
"All-round reedsman-composer-arranger Schwarz-Bart injects the island’s native Go-Kwa drum patterns into his already novel callalou of post-bop and Nu Hip-hop influences. The results are simply hypnotic."
John STEVENSON - Ejazz News
"Schwarz-Bart has carried a dream for many years: to combine jazz with Gwoka, the three-hundred year old rhythmic tradition of Guadeloupe, his homeland. Soné Ka-La is the culmination of that dream."
J. HUNTER - All About Jazz
"Schwarz-Bart has indeed found an alluring sound that brings together a variety of influences for a truly world jazz."
Paul BORELLI - KOOP
Record Label: Universal Jazz
Type of Label: Major
