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The French-Jewish-Guadeloupean saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart&#;a background and name like that has world music written all over it&#;presented his Sone Ka-La(Emarcy) in , after stints with D'Angelo's Voodoo touring band, Roy Hargrove's Crisol and Rh Factor, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello, all influences that helped him craft a hybridization of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and melodies inspired by Gwoka traditions of his native island of Guadeloupe.

Gwoka is a music born on the western Atlantic Island in response, in part, to the miseries inflicted by slavery, drawing on rhythmic traditions of Africa mixed with French and native sounds. Evolving out of an atmosphere of evil and atrocity, it is something at a thumbing of the nose at the greed-steeped powers of the slave trade era, a response to venal ugliness with life affirming joy an