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Indigenous Individualist

“We just want to bring that Native sound back.”

hen Delbert Anderson formed a trio with bassist Mike McCluhan and drummer Nicholas Lucero in 2013, the group immediately grappled with its musical direction. Having found no fruit in a brief pursuit of standards, the trumpeter turned instead toward a concept built around cultural identity. “I was doing some research in a library

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