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Mardi Gras Indians: Keepers of the Native Americans’ secret influence on jazz

Native American Heritage Month is a great time to highlight a relatively unknown part of one of the most special cities on the globe: the contribution of Native Americans to the musical universe of ...
The New York Times

The ‘Father’ of Native American Composers Hasn’t Gotten His Due

Performances in N.Y.C. Louis W. Ballard paved the way for a booming generation of artists. But his works have been too little performed and recorded. Louis W. Ballard in 1971. “What I am attempting in ...