‘It comes from inside you’, Delbert Anderson’s personal moments helped him reach milestones
Navajo Times | Holly James
Delbert Anderson, the artist-in-residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts, collaborates with other jazz musicians in a performance at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe March 30.
SANTA FE
Delbert Anderson, frontman and founder of his jazz band, Delbert Anderson Trio, has been achieving significant milestones in his career, landing him and his band prestigious financial grants to help youth, revitalize musical history within Indigenous communities, and inspire Indigenous jazz music collaborations.
Navajo Times | Holly James
Diné jazz musician Delbert Anderson plays his trumpet for a full house at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe March 30.
Born in Shiprock, Anderson, 36, now makes his home in Farmington with his wife and their five children.
Anderson is Bit’ahnii and born for Tł’ááshchí’í. His maternal grandmother is Kinłichíi’nii, and his paternal grandfather is Tódích’íi’nii.
Read the full story in the May 25 edition of the Navajo Times.
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