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

World of Difference

By Danny Fisher-Lochhead

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

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: ...

Theo Croker, Sarah Buechi, Jon Irabagon, Nicholas Payton and Anais Reno

by Hobart Taylor
July 23, 2025

New releases from Theo Croker, Jon Irabagon, Anais Reno and Nicholas Payton.Playlist Yuko Mabuchi “Tribute to my Homeland" from Quantum (SRG Jazz/Universal) 00:00 Satoko Fujii “ Aruku" from Dream a Dream (Libra) 9:08 Host Speaks 19:47 Jon Irabagon “At What Price Garlic" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) 21:09 James Brandon Lewis “Left Alone" from ...

String

August 31, 2025

Album: World of Difference
By Danny Fisher-Lochhead
Label: Fishkill Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:35

Winter Jazzfest 2025: The Once and Future Music

by Adam Beaudoin
April 9, 2025

Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 9-15, 2025 Impressions of A Love Supreme We are standing in a line outside the venue, waiting in the January chill to listen to nearly two dozen musicians perform and pay tribute to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, 60 years to the month after its release. People ...

Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spaulding, Andrew Bird, Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin

by Cliff Furnald
January 28, 2025

RootsWorld rambles around once more with music from jazz to roots-folk from around the world. Artists in this edition include Milton Nascimento, & Esperanza Spaulding, L��ireach, Satnam Galsian, Les Arrivants, Andrew Bird , Frode Nyvold and friends, Andy Statman Trio , Riccardo Tesi , Besh o droM, Quintet Bumbac, Alterne, and Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin. ...

Celebrating innovative releases from the Pi Recording catalog

by Hobart Taylor
December 4, 2024

This week we feature Pi Recording artists including the Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Anna Webber, Steve Coleman and the Five Elements, Luke Stewart, Jen Shyu, Henry Threadgill, Patricia Brennan, Matt Mitchell, Kate Gentile and others. Playlist Aaron Parks “Little Beginnings" from Little Big III (Blue Note) 0:00 Brandee Younger “Tickled Pink" from Somewhere Different (Impulse) ...

Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell, Leslie Pintchik and More

by Hobart Taylor
September 18, 2024

New music from Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell with Ballake Sissoko, Leslie Pintchik and more.Playlist Alice Zawadzki “Za Go?rami" from Za Go?rami (ECM) 0:00 Ben Solomon “Echolocation “ from Echolocation (Giant Step Arts) 6:41 Kris Davis “Subtones" from Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) 16:39 Host Speaks 21:43 Michael Dease “The Stray Moonduck" from Found In Space ...

New Music from Janel Leppin and Ensemble Volcanic Ash, Tarbaby, Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii and More

by Hobart Taylor
July 3, 2024

On this show we feature new releases from Janel Leppin and Ensemble Volcanic Ash, Tarbaby (Orrin Evans, Eric Reavis, and Nasheet Waits), Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii, David Murray and more. Playlist Janel Leppin “As Wide as All Outdoors" from Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) 0:00 Harry Skoler “AppleHands" from ...