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Allahu, the jazz work rooted in Indonesia’s sprawling, centuries-old cultural landscape, fits within a rich, decades-long tradition of jazz practice that stretches across the nation’s thousands of islands, a tradition that has long reimagined the core structures of jazz through the unique cultural lens of the world’s largest archipelagic state. Jazz as a genre has never been a static form, bound only to its early 20th century origins, but has instead adapted to every region it has reached, taking on new layers of meaning, new connections to local cultural priorities, and new ways of engaging with audiences that extend far beyond the communities that first shaped its foundational sounds.
