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Released
  
1971

Producer
  
Daniel Weiss

Release date
  
1971

Length
  
38:42

Artist
  
Jim Pepper

Label
  
Embryo Records

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Recorded
  
January 7, 1971 New York City

Pepper's Pow Wow (1971)
  
Comin' and Goin' (1984)

Genre
  
Indigenous music of North America

Similar
  
Witchi‑Tai‑To, Art of the Duo, Uptown Conversation, Push Push, Remembering the Moment

Pepper's Pow Wow is the debut album led by Native American saxophonist and composer Jim Pepper recorded in 1971 and first released on Herbie Mann's Embryo label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "while Pepper's Pow Wow is not strictly a jazz record, nor is it a folk record or a rock record, it is something far greater than merely the sum of those things".

Track listing

All compositions by Gilbert Pepper except as indicated

  1. "Witchitai-To (Chant) / Witchitai-To (Song)" (Traditional/Jim Pepper) - 7:17
  2. "Squaw Song" - 3:50
  3. "Rock Stomp Indian Style" - 2:07
  4. "Senecas (As Long as the Grass Shall Grow)" (Peter La Farge) - 5:48
  5. "Ya Na Ho" - 5:42
  6. "Slow War Dance" - 1:51
  7. "Nommie-Nommie (When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder)" (Traditional) - 2:37
  8. "Newly-Weds Song" - 3:01
  9. "Fast War Dance/Now War Dance" (Gilbert Pepper/Billy Cobham, Chuck Rainey, Jim Pepper, Larry Coryell, Tom Grant) - 2:24
  10. "Drums" (La Farge) - 4:20

Personnel

  • Jim Pepper - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, drums, bells, rattles, shakers, vocals
  • Ravie Pepper - flute, bamboo flute, shakers, vocals
  • Tom Grant - piano, shakers, vocals
  • Larry Coryell - guitar
  • Jerry Jemmott, Chuck Rainey - electric bass
  • Billy Cobham, Spider Rice - drums
  • Gib Pepper - drums, bells, rattles, shakers, vocals, arranger
  • Arif Mardin - arranger (track 5)

    • Songs

    1Witchitai-To7:52
    2Squaw Song3:11
    3Rock Stomp Indian Style2:06

    References

    Pepper's Pow Wow Wikipedia
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