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Mali Obomsawin

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. Written as a compositional suite, the album Sweet Tooth, released in October 2022 on Out of Your Head Records, blends Wabanaki stories and songs with compositions addressing contemporary Indigenous life, colonization, and continuity. It’s at once intimately personal, featuring field recordings of relatives at Odanak First Nation, but also conveys a larger story of the Wabanaki people

Automatic

By Mali Obomsawin

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Nawa; Automatic; Triage; O'temin; Moi, quand j'y suis; Malian; Kojua II; Venez

Incarnadine

By Julia Keefe

Label: Frybread Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Water; Sonnet; Wawasint8da; DDAT Suite, mvt. 1 Narbona; DDAT Suite, mvt. 2 Attention; DDAT Suite, mvt. 3 Iron Horse Gallup; Ku'u Pua i Paoakalani; Rockin' Chair

Mali Obomsawin: Automatic

by Don Ball
October 24, 2026

The cover of Mali Obomsawin's Automatic finds her in a room surrounded by cultural influences such as her bass and traditional ash basket splints and revolutionary artifacts like Marxist literature, grenades, and the Mohawk Warrior Society flag. A provocative cover for a provocative album where Obomsawin pulls together a rich musical tapestry that is difficult to ...

Luis Vicente, Martin Kuchen, Ayumi Tanaka & Mali Obomsawin

by Maurice Hogue
September 7, 2026

Europe's still Europe on maps so far, and that's where this episode of One Man's Jazz is centered and sampling new albums by Portugal's free--blowing trumpeter Luis Vicente & his 4tet (Spirits Moving) and guitarist Marcelo Dos Reis; saxophonist Martin Kuchen's Angles 4 from Sweden; the Scottish duo of saxophonist Zack Moir & bassist Roberto Cassani's ...

Pat Thomas, Reza Askari & Mali Obomsawin

by Maurice Hogue
July 20, 2026

The bag is not only mixed for this edition, but also vigorously shaken and stirred. Master pianist Pat Thomas & trio's The Day After, a must-listen recording, closes the show with a giant bang, but before that, eclecticism rules. You'll hear music from a couple of discoveries from the recent Vision Festival--pianist Hideki Akaiwa & Baltimore's ...

World of Difference

By Danny Fisher-Lochhead

Label: Fishkill Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: World of Difference; Dream Journal; String; Nightsea; Clock Time.

Peter Evans, Shawn Lovato, Flyways & Mali Obonsawin

by Maurice Hogue
November 12, 2025

Peter Evans' new Ars Ludicra with his quartet Being & Becoming is a perfect example of how Evans has become one of the creative world's most captivating trumpeters. His music is filled with “unexpectations" and surprises. Don't pass up this recording. Preview tracks from upcoming albums should entice you too--bassist Shawn Lovato's Biotic & Flyways' Mutualism ...

Presenting Great Music: Adam Hopkins and Scott Clark of Out of Your Head Records

by Don Ball
November 3, 2025

It is difficult to make a living as a musician, especially as a jazz musician, and even more so as an avant-garde/free jazz musician. Venues are hard to come by, especially outside of major cities. The COVID pandemic made things worse, closing many of the few places that were available for live jazz. Even putting out ...

New Music from the Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra, Remembering Hal Galper, and Darius Jones

by Hobart Taylor
July 30, 2025

Welcome the Zhentao Pan Jazz Orchestra, Plus new music from Lauren Henderson, Joe Farnsworth, Ohad Talmor and Remembering Hal Galper.Playlist Lauren Henderson “Vida" from Sonidos (Brontosaurus) 00:00 Hal Galper Reggie Workman Rashied Ali “ Stella by Starlight" from Art-Work (Origin) 4:19 Host Speaks 13:38 Waitiki 7 “Cave of the Tarpon (live)" from Exotica Reborn: ...