MP3 Brother Jacques Project - Inspiration

New York City groove and west indies fusion. Including the original version of the 1st single cut of the RH Factor "Forget/Regret".

12 MP3 Songs in this album (62:13) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Contemporary Jazz, WORLD: Caribbean

People who are interested in The RH Factor Jacques Schwarz-bart Stephanie McCay should consider this download.


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[...] Like a bird, Brother Jacques takes a simple melody and makes it sing. Sensuously, the grooves and hard-line edges coming out of hip-hop and funk lay down the back beat, making our hands sway, heads bop and feet stomp. Isn't that what music is supposed to do? The lyric is universally touching and simply weaves it's way right into the melodics. Simple and to the point: songs like Forget/Regret, Tryin' Times, Rainbow, I Don't Know, break it down exactly as it's supposed to be broken down. The freedom within songs like "Abyss"and "Mind Soother". So aptly titled, the very image of a "mind soother" is precisely the sound of the track. Jacques is able to reach these heights due to his diligence to the wind instruments - in particular, the father of them all: the tenor saxophone. Without the practiced art of improvisation and cultivation, these sounds are simply impossible to achieve. He's climbing the mountain every time.

In conversation with you, Jacques is always birthing some new philosophy or presenting different perspectives of looking at our world and what is in it. This man always takes his time, thinks about what he has to say - and his music is the same. He doesn't fill moments with unnecessary words, usually gets right to the point and the one thing you can always count on is that he will deliver. Hence, the music.

The Brother Jacques Project is always growing because it is open. It's always moving because it is ever-changing. It's always hard and right there with you because of the strength of its foundation. It is rare to encounter a music with these attributes and above all, the placement of THE TRUTH, which rears it's head out to you and makes you pay attention. The Brother Jacques Project doesn't let you go, nor will you be able to let it go. It builds. It grows. It is truth and it is intent. It is NOW. The way we should all strive to be in AND within our own lives.

Kim Smith - 2003

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"Cela sâimpose dâemblée comme une invisible force qui puise son énergie dans le profond de la terre. Quelque chose de tellurique qui déplace des masses énormes, et qui nous place quelque part, sur la lèvre géante du cratère."
"Schwarz-Bart (sax & vcl) nâest pas un Frère Jacques endormi. Au contraire, il nous revient avec un jeu et une approche de la musique lucide et actuelle. Lucide parce que lâon sent bien de sa part une compréhension réaliste des enjeux de la musique jazz dâaujourdâhui ; actuelle parce quâon le devine à l'écoute de ce qui marque indéniablement ce début de siècle, je veux parler de la montée en puissance de la valeur rythmique dans les musiques contemporaines. [...]"
"Entre R'nâB, rap et syncopes gwo-ka, "Brother Jacques" nous livre un "Project" qui, tout en reposant sur un groove puissant et quelque peu underground, cultive une certaine délicatesse dans lâexposé des lignes mélodiques. La présence de Stephanie McKay (vcl) y est pour beaucoup. Face à lâautre présence, monolithique du Brother Jacques, elle se pose avec une grâce infinie. Apportant au dessus du magma de la basse et de la grosse caisse, lâélan aérien de son corps et lâéclat cristallin de sa voix ; fragile (apparemment) mais extrêmement déterminée dans lâémission du son."

Alain Joséphine - le Bananier Bleu - juin 2004

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Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Saxophone & chant
Jason Lindner - key
Stephanie McKay - vocal
Johnathan Maron - bass
Terreon Gully - drums
Meshell N'degeocello - bass
Gene Lake - drums
Federico Pena - key