John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache, Irish, Chicano, German) is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music at the University of Washington. His research interests include jazz and improvised music performance and composition, urban American Indian lived experiences and cultural productions, music technologies, recording and archiving practices, social constructions of "noise," Native and African American jazz cultures, and the Creek and Kaw saxophonist Jim Pepper. Perea also maintains an active career as a multi-instrumentalist. He has recorded on eighteen albums as a sideman and three as a leader, First Dance (2001), Creation Story (2014), and Cedar Flute Songs (2023).