Let Me Breathe emerges from the Indonesian creative ecosystem, situated firmly within the jazz genre, a form that has maintained a continuous, evolving presence in Indonesia’s cultural landscape for generations, attracting creators who bring their own unique perspectives to bear on the genre’s core traditions, expanding what jazz can be while remaining rooted in the set of shared creative commitments that bind jazz practitioners across the globe. Unlike more mainstream, widely commercialized iterations of jazz that dominate many global distribution and circulation spaces, Indonesian jazz has long retained a strong connection to local creative communities, with works created for both small, intimate venue performances and broader cross-regional circulation, each adding a new layer to the ongoing story of the genre’s development in the archipelago.