'Those tunes were written in the language of modern jazz...In hindsight, I realized that I’d composed a book of short stories,' Shwarz-Bart says of his album.
on Saturday, March 25. It’s a rare area date for Schwarz-Bart even though he moved here from Harlem seven years ago to join the faculty of Berklee College of Music. “Boston is now the third place I’ve really called home, after Guadeloupe and New York,” he says while sitting in his Berklee cubicle.
It’s yet another chapter in a career that has never followed the usual script for a jazz musician. Although Schwarz-Bart grew up listening to jazz and at the age of 12 talked his way into the Village Vanguard to see Sonny Rollins while on a trip to New York, he was 24 before he picked up a horn – far older, he laughs, than most of the students he now teaches. “Seeing Sonny, it just seemed like what he did was unobtainable,” he recalls.
“Once I got a scholarship to Berklee, I never looked back,” says Schwarz-Bart. After he finished his education, he moved to New York, where he slept in a friend’s closet. One night the pair went to catch rising star Roy Hargrove with the famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes. Schwarz-Bart brought his horn and took to the stage without being explicitly invited. His friend was so horrified that he tried to physically restrain Schwarz-Bart.
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