Black Belt Eagle Scout




This weeks show has these amazing artists Whisperhawk, Digawolf, Crownlands, Jacquie Neville, Xiuhtezcatl, Jazz Millz, Pyoot and B-$mith, Evan Redsky, Destroykasmin, 1876 Band, Brendt Thomas Diabo, Berk Jodoin music, Kalyn Fay, Aaron Hale Music, Crystal Shawanda, and Tommy Graven Music. It’s going out in Europe on Resonance 104.4fm, radio AGORA 105,5, Proton – das freie Radio Radio FRO , Radio Freequenns – Das freie Radio im Ennstal, & Radio Onde Furlane and as a podcast on Fridays from Pantheon Podcasts.

If it wasn’t for the music and the research I put into the artists, I’d never find beautiful videos like this one. Thank you Ya Tseen for leading me to this one.


Indigenous jazz musicians, ensembles, and big bands have their place in the contemporary jazz world as well as in jazz history. There were small ensembles and big bands on reservations across the US in the first half of the Twentieth Century and several Indigenous musicians who ascended to celebrity with jazz as their medium. From time immemorial, songs have been the vessels of stories and lessons for the Indigenous people of the Americas. The goals of the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band are to celebrate and continue that tradition, to compose and perform new music inspired by traditional backgrounds, and to create a community of likeminded peoples from all backgrounds to uplift the next generation of Indigenous jazz musicians.
