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Incarnadine

Julia Keefe

Label: Frybread Records
Released: 2026
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Tracks

Water; Sonnet; Wawasint8da; DDAT Suite, mvt. 1 Narbona; DDAT Suite, mvt. 2 Attention; DDAT Suite, mvt. 3 Iron Horse Gallup; Ku'u Pua i Paoakalani; Rockin' Chair

Personnel

Additional Personnel / Information

Julia Keefe: Background Vocals (track 3 only); Magdalena Abrego: Guitar (track 3 only); Mali Obomsawin: Vocals (track 3 only); Rogan Tinsley: Vocals (track 7 only); Asa Peters: Vocals (track 5 only)

Album Description

The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band releases Incarnadine, a landmark debut album celebrating the diversity and vitality of Indigenous people in jazz. Led by acclaimed vocalist Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) and featuring a 16-piece ensemble of Native and Indigenous musicians from across Indian Country, the album draws on compositions made famous by 20th-century Indigenous jazz luminaries like Mildred Bailey and Jim Pepper alongside new works by contemporary Indigenous composers.

Mali Obomsawin's "Wawasint8da" transforms a Jesuit-translated Abenaki hymn into a haunting exploration of resilience and paradox. Delbert Anderson's three-movement DDAT Suite honors Dine code talkers and sacred tribal landscapes. Rogan Kahale's arrangement of Queen Liliuokalani's "Ku'u Pua i Paoakalani" brings a tender, cinematic sweep to the program. Incarnadine is history, protest, and celebration rolled into one, a necessary and overdue document of a vibrant jazz tradition that has long existed outside the mainstream spotlight. Fans of large ensemble jazz, vocally driven big band recordings, and socially conscious music will find this album both musically thrilling and deeply meaningful.

credits

released May 8, 2026

Produced by Julia Keefe & Quinn Carson
Recording Engineering by Brain Saia
Additional Tracking by Quinn Carson
Mix Engineering by Ken Rich
Mastering Engineering by Dave Darlington

Incarnadine was recorded through the support of The Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross.

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