"The Man To Send Rain Clouds" is set on an Indian Reservation in the American Southwest, with its wide mesas & arroyos. As the story opens, Leon & his brother-in-law, Ken, find an old man, Teofilo, dead under a cottonwood tree.
Both Indian music and jazz have melodies based on modes, (scales or ragas), pulse-oriented rhythms, (played by drums) and improvisation, all of which have been developed to a very high level.