Jazz Racine @ Lycée français, NYC

News,
tumblr_m13d7zSPPv1rs48d8o1_500The Cultural Center at the Lycée Français de New York presents
Jazz racine Haïti
with
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
“Jacques Schwarz-Bart has created a ground breaking project that synergizes modern jazz and ritual voodoo music from Haiti. While remaining a jazz project, the music is lifted by the powerful spirituality of voodoo music. Band members and audience seem to be sailing together on a sea of light. The music was just presented as the headliner for the opening day of the famous Banlieues Bleues festival on March 11th, 2011 in Paris. Jacques has toured with this project, including in Morocco (Essaouira Festival), Guadeloupe (IloJazz), Haiti (Port au Prince jazz fest), Rouen, La Rochelle. Tuesday will be the first New York concert!”

Christophe Jenny – le Bananier bleu

Mardi 20 mars 2012 à 19h30
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7:30pm
Reservation: (212) 439-3820
505 East 75th street New York, NY 10021

News – December 2011

News,

Over the past year I have not communicated properly with people who follow my work. The reason being that it was the most creative year of my life. I created five new projects -instead of one every two years. I also recorded a previous project last September, which will be released in February 2012. It’s a quartet recording featuring Baptiste Trotignon, Thomas Bramerie and Hans van Oosterhout.

It’s called “The Art of Dreaming”, because of the state of heightened awareness that we share when we play together, which I could describe as dreaming while being awake.

That dreamlike awareness fuels the energy of the record: it really feels like a live concert recording, in front of our best audience. I take it as a gift… And I’m excited to share that gift with you!