Jacques Schwarz-Bart #Jazz Sur Seine 2026

Some albums are born out of necessity. *Resistance* — Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s new album with his trio — is one such album. Not an abstract manifesto, not a stylistic exercise: an act. One man’s musical response to the times he is living through, from the city where he lives, with the musicians he has trusted for over twenty years.

Jacques Schwarz-Bart lives in Boston. Faced with the resurgence of authoritarianism at the heart of Western democracies, he has chosen a response: to transform anxiety into serenity.

For this project, Jacques Schwarz-Bart made a deliberate choice: a line-up without any harmonic instruments — tenor saxophone, double bass, drums. No piano, no guitar. An act of structural freedom, opening up a space for radical improvisation. “Melodic instruments often confine improvisers to a predetermined chordal framework. Their absence opens up an extra space for madness.”