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obody can do this but you.” Those were the words of encouragement received by Jacques Schwarz-Bart when he first brought his compositions mixing jazz and Gwoka music to a Berklee professor in the early ’90s. The instructor meant to light a fire under the saxophonist, but he was also merely stating the facts. Born and raised in Guadeloupe, Schwarz-Bart

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