Welcome to the new Native Jazz Quartet
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•   The Native Jazz Quartet is an American band formed specially to combine two great American creations: Native music and jazz. The Band’s mission is to create new jazz from old songs, using Native American melodies and melodies from Native traditions around the world. This band gives people the chance to rediscover their own music. The result is exciting, fresh, delightfully unexpected and appealing to children, adults, Americans, Norwegians, Tlingit, you name it. . The band is hard-swinging and high energy, based on the swing/bebop tradition, using only native/folk melodies in jazz arrangements.   

In the American tradition, the band is culturally diverse: Ed Littlefield is Alaska Native/Tlingit-American, Reuel Lubag is Filipino-American, Jason Marsalis is African-American and Christian Fabian is Swedish/German-American. The Native Jazz Quartet is an exciting new band, with an exciting new message that turns performances into cultural stories into standing ovations. Band members and audiences alike are very excited by the power of Native/Jazz fusion