Jacques Schwarz-Bart - "Abyss"
(ObliqSound)

“Abyss is an excellent album. Full of creative sweetness, melancholy and serenity … truly original… The leader’s tone is remarkably dense, and his phrasing is impeccable!”. - François René Simon, Jazz Magazine

"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

Abyss, the follow-up to Soné Ka La (Universal France), saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s critically- acclaimed 2006 release, takes us further and deeper into the heart of the mysterious, scintillating marriage between jazz and g'wo ka, the traditional music of Guadeloupe.

Only someone with such a particular destiny could have us share this feverish, passionately singular quest in search of the sensual and poetic meeting of two cultures evolving from the same core, the same African roots, the same primeval meaning, and yet separated by the very history of their evolution.