Jazz is an omnivorous art form that has absorbed a succession of global influences, from Brazil and Cuba to India and Bulgaria. But the most recent movement adding a jolt of creative energy to the scene is powered by a rising generation of Native American musicians.

Bassist, vocalist, songwriter and composer Mali Obomsawin, a citizen of the Odanak First Nation in central Quebec, is in the thick of the creative ferment, both as a member of vocalist Julia Keefe’s Indigenous Big Band and as a bandleader in her own right. She returns to the Bay Area with her trio to perform her score for the 2024 National Geographic documentary “Sugarcane,” which screens Friday at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall and Saturday at the Freight in Berkeley.

“It is a new era, an Indigenous renaissance, and it’s so ex

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