Lucious Randolph , trumpet; Sun Ra, pno; John Gilmore, tenor; Marshall Allen, alto; Ronnie Boykins, bass; Eddy Skinner, drums. Sun Ra, 1914-1993, African-American jazz composer, bandleader, and keyboard player, b. Birmingham, Al., as Herman Poole Blount. Sun Ra was a leading creator of avant-garde jazz from the ‘60s through the ‘90s. For decades he led his “Arkestra,” an ensemble with a group of core musicians who lived and worked together. The group was known for its highly theatrical performances and promotion of a “cosmic” philosophy steeped in Afrofuturism . Blount was a childhood prodigy as a pianist and arranger, and began performing while still in high school. After serving as a conscientious objector in World War II, he relocated to Chicago in 1945 where he formed his first bands. In 1961, he moved to New York City where his group became a major force in the burgeoning avant-garde jazz and performance scenes of the day. His musicians began appearing in elaborate costumes that drew on Egyptian and space age motifs, with a background of projected light patterns and videos created by what Sun Ra called the “Outer Space Visual Communicator.” The group relocated to a communal home in Philadelphia in 1968 and continued to tour and record, mostly on their own private label - Encyclopedia2.free dictionary

"Prechtel wasr raised on a Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and of First Nations and Swiss ancestry. In 1970 his mother died and Prechtel ended his first marriage.[2] He started traveling, going south through Mexico and entering Guatemala. After a year of traveling through the country, he settled in a small village near Lake Atitlan, which was inhabited by the Tz'utujil (one of the numerous ethnic Maya peoples).[2] There he met Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy, a respected shaman of the village, who told him that Prechtel was the student he had prayed for. The American began studying with the Mayan shaman - wiki"

"This is the debut album led by Native American saxophonist and composer Jim Pepper recorded in 1971 and first released on Herbie Mann's Embryo label. Pepper was born on June 18, 1941, to Gilbert and Floy Pepper in Salem, Oregon. He grew up in Portland. Beginning in the late 1960s, Pepper became a pioneer of fusion jazz. His band, The Free Spirits (active between 1965 and 1968, with guitarist Larry Coryell), is credited as the first to combine elements of jazz and rock. Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman encouraged Pepper to reflect his Native American roots and heritage and incorporate it into his jazz playing and composition. In 1998, composer Gunther Schuller arranged, conducted and recorded Witchi Tai To: The Music of Jim Pepper for symphony orchestra and jazz band. He died at age 50 of lymphoma. "

"Muscogee/Mvskoke Creek hymn, Haleluyan or Heleluyan, sung with a predominantly Choctaw congregation at Mary Lee Clark United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City."

Olówa_ Wétu (Lakota for spring songs) is a collection of original songs I wrote on Native flute to help me get through some of the most trying times in my life. These songs are deeply personal and were written during times of great need spiritually and emotionally so these four songs are almost like prayers for me and have helped me find healing. I recorded these songs outdoors and also include the story of why I wrote each song on the album. You can hear birds singing with me in every recording :)

She is an original…releasing her first recroding of country blues in her late 50s. In 1993 a stroke stopped Jessie from playing guitar but she continued to sing until her death in 2006, and two years later Cat Power would bring Jessie’s unique sound to a wider audience when she covered ‘Lord, Help the Poor & Needy’ on 2008’s ‘Jukebox’.

"Sanim is a US Army Veteran, classically trained violinist, native storyteller and actor. Swil Kanim considers himself and his music to be the product of a well supported public school music program. Music and the performance of music helped him to process the traumas associated with his early placement into the foster care system. "

In his own projects, Pepper recorded with Cherry, Naná Vasconcelos, Collin Walcott, Kenny Werner, John Scofield, Ed Schuller, Hamid Drake, and others. His CD Comin' and Goin' (1983) is the definitive statement of Pepper's unique "American Indian jazz" with nine songs played by four different line-ups. He worked also with the Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian' s quintet, Bob Moses, Marty Cook, Mal Waldron, David Friesen, and Amina Claudine Myers, and toured Europe intensively.

Collected by Dr. Frances Densmore for the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian.

"Rainbow Quest was a television program produced for one series run in 1965 and 1966 by the Advertisers Broadcasting Company for UHF station WNJU-TV in the New York City market. Throughout the show's 39-episode run, writer and curator of American folk songs Pete Seeger hosted many guest musicians. He also himself presented the histories of diverse American and international folk music traditions through spoken and musical segments."

"Rainbow Quest was a television program produced for one series run in 1965 and 1966 by the Advertisers Broadcasting Company for UHF station WNJU-TV in the New York City market. Throughout the show's 39-episode run, writer and curator of American folk songs Pete Seeger hosted many guest musicians. He also himself presented the histories of diverse American and international folk music traditions through spoken and musical segments."

Tatan ka-ohi tika was born in the james River Valley in 1863 after the White Stone Massacre he was a prisoner of War at Crow Creek on his release came to north side of Standing Rock. Recorded by Francis Desmore.

"On July 11, 2011, Harper was honoured by Alberta's Blood tribe. He was made Honorary Chief of the Kainai Nation during a ceremony, in which they recognized him for making an official apology on behalf of the Government of Canada for the residential schools abuse. Harper issued this apology in 2008. The chief of the tribe explained that he believes the apology officially started the healing and rebuilding of relations between the federal and native councils."

"Mr. D.C. was Jim Pepper's composition dedicated to his musical and spiritual brother Don Cherry, the pocket-trumpet-playing improvisational avante garde hero. This is Gunther Schuller's arrangement, conducted by Gunther Schuller and recorded in Cologne, Germany"

"Recorded at Studio Caroline, a hotbed for the African diaspora in Paris during the 80s, and produced by French-Chilean musician and producer Ramuntcho Matta (his father is Chilean painter Roberto Matta and half-brother is cult New York artist Gordon Matta-Clark), Home Boy, Sister Out is one of Don Cherry's most original albums. Matta is one of the true architects of that 1980s Paris sound mixing music from all over the Planet with the street vibe of the French capital. - wiki"

"Translated, Bear's name is O'Mashi! Ryu Ta or Northern Lights. He's a flute maker, player and teacher. "

Brown claims Apache heritage

"She commissioned new work from 5 Native America composers for this project, beginning in 2006. She produced a video series as a companion to the recording. Avery's Mohawk name is Ieriho:kwats and she wears the turtle clan"

"Wotco is featured in the series Rez Dogs. I met him I n 2015 on an oral history bike ride around Tulsa as part of Localore, a national production I was involved with. He told the story of being out on his first patrol in Vietnam when they confronted enemy troops. He ran for cover, and was left behind. Terrified, he remembered this song....and sang it for us. "

Bush Lady is the only recording ever made by Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki First Nations and best known as one of Canada’s most accomplished and decorated documentary filmmakers. Less well known is that Obomsawin began her artistic career as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, part of a broad movement of Indigenous artists from across North America rallying in new assertions of cultural consciousness, political rights, and reckonings with oppressive colonial history. She was born in Lebonon, New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada. Works for National Film Board of Canada. She's now 90 years old.

Emily Wurramara is a young Aboriginal woman who has been writing songs since she was 6, singing in both English and Annandilyakwa, the traditional language of her home, Groote Eylandt. She says, _The songs on this debut album have been written over time. ‘Tapsticks' was my second song to ever be written on guitar. I was 12 years old when I wrote it. These songs have grown out of my own experiences, the stories and dreams I’ve been told from the people I love and of course my love for our Earth and all the mystery and mystical beings she holds._