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 vocals by his partner Stephanie McKay, followed by The Art of Dreaming in 2012 and the voodoo-influenced Jazz Racine Haïti in 2014.
