Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth
November 7 @ 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
$25
Bassist, singer, and bandleader Mali Obomsawin performs music from their debut album Sweet Tooth, a project that shines a light on the Indigenous history of jazz and expresses the vitality and contemporary nature of Indigenous culture.
An Abenaki from Odanak First Nation, Obomsawin studied with the renowned cornetist and composer Taylor Ho Bynam at Dartmouth, an institution originally founded in the 18th century to educate the Wabanaki people, and they discovered the archived and unheard field recordings of their Odanak ancestors in storage – recordings that have been integrated into Sweet Tooth.
The Out of Your Head Records release is based around the concepts of adaptation and innovation in modernity, a project both personal and universal to the stories of the Indiginous populations of the U.S. and Canada. This is a contemporary music, and is not an expression of the bridging of worlds, but shows how jazz and Indiginous culture is inextricably linked from the time that colonizers and militaries brought brass band instruments to Native lands.
Through their artistry, Mali Obomsawin lifts their ancestral history of resistance and adaptation, and carries on a proud tradition of Native jazz artists including Don Cherry, Mildred Bailey, Oscar Pettiford, and many others.
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