We share a candid, funny, and deeply rooted conversation with Oscar-nominated composer and bassist Mali Obomsawin, tracing a path from Western Maine to Indigenous jazz lineages, archival repatriation, and a pedalboard moment with Yo-Yo Ma. Music, memory, and sovereignty braid into songs that carry both grief and lift.
• identity as Abenaki Wabanaki and citizen of Odanak First Nation • Indigenous jazz history from Mildred Bailey to Oscar Pettiford and Don Cherry • fiddle camps, Berklee year, Dartmouth scholarship and culture shock • research on colonization, captive diplomacy, and Dartmouth archives • repatriation of Abenaki recordings to the Odanak museum • Sweet Tooth as ancestral storytelling with modern ensemble • Deer Lady origins, Reservation Dogs placement, and shoegaze textures • mentors, community learning, and critiques of institutional jazz • collaborations, Yo-Yo Ma set experiment, and future wishes • writing process for the next Dear Lady album and upcoming shows
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