NORMAN â The nonprofit Norman Cultural Connection on Feb. 19 presented a virtual screening of âSpirit Flute: Healing of the Heart,â a documentary featuring Oklahoma flute players and artists, including Cherokee Nation citizen Tommy Wildcat.
â¨The 56-minute documentary narrated by Cherokee actor Wes Studi showcases different generations talking about the art of creating the flute, creating music, concerns in keeping the art form alive as well as exploring gender roles and its impact on flute making and flute playing in contemporary times, according to a NCC press release.
Wildcat is featured among several renowned flute players and makers such as Timothy Tate Nevaquaya of the Comanche Nation, John and Jerry Haney of the Seminole Nation, Wendell and Jack Pettigrew of the Chickasaw Nation and multi-Grammy nominated artist R. Carlos Nakai of the Navajo Nation.
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Monday, February 1, 2021
By Doug George-Kanentiio
Rumble: Indians Who Rocked the World premiered on PBS two years ago, on January 19, 2019. This remarkable, and long overdue, show featured Indigenous musicians who have had significant impact on contemporary and historical music. While most of the profiled artists are from the 20th century it does prove that aboriginal music is the true “North American” means of harmonic expression.
By watching the documentary we learn that the blues, jazz, rock, New Age and world music have had Native roots. Past composers and stars of Native ancestry range from Charley Patton, the godfather of the blues to the jazz artist Russel Moore and Kay Starr, one of the most prominent country singers of the 1940’s-50’s.
Carlos Nakai
Centering - Peter Kater, Kater, Peter
East - Peter Kater, Kater, Peter
South - Peter Kater,
North - Peter Kater,
Earth - Peter Kater, Kater, Peter
Within (Recentering) - Peter Kater,
This collaboration with new age keyboard star Peter Kater is the album that introduced Nakai mainstream record buyers. On its release, Natives stayed on Billboard s New Age Chart for almost a year, paving the way for the c.
more »urrent renaissance in the Native flute. Once again the music is totally improvised, with Kater s romantic melodies and fat, left-hand chord clusters on the concert grand, providing a fertile environment for Nakai s flights of improvisational fancy. And although Kater is an impressive piano stylist, this is clearly Nakai s show; the brittle tones of his Eagle-bone whistle, and his measured chanting to the accompaniment of an Algonquin turtle rattle always move the music to a higher plane. j. poet