The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band is pictured here at the Kennedy Center, where they headlined for the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival on May 11. Abenaki and other Indigenous perspectives took ...

New album “Sweet Tooth” from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin highlights centuries of clever adaptation and resistance that have fueled the art and culture of Wabanaki people.

Even as Indigenous musician Mali Obomsawin was playing the festival circuit with the Boston folk trio Lula Wiles, the bassist was thinking of composing a suite that would explore their Wabanaki ...

Jazz is an omnivorous art form that has absorbed a succession of global influences, from Brazil and Cuba to India and Bulgaria. But the most recent movement adding a jolt of creative energy to the ...