Artist: Jim Pepper
Genre(s):
Jazz
Other
Discography:
Dakota Song
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Comin' and Goin'
Year: 1991
Tracks: 8
Art of the Duo
Year:
Tracks: 14
Jim Pepper will always be c. H. Best remembered for his pop recording of "Witchi-Tai-To," a mescal cantillate put to medicine. Pepper, world Health Organization is definitively profiled in the hourlong documentary Pepper's Pow Wow (available on video recording), infused advanced nothingness with the influence of his Native American inheritance. The son of a forefather world Health Organization besides played sax, Pepper early in life loved to tap dance. He largely taught himself both tenor and clarinet, development a soulful sound and keeping his style exposed to both resign verbal expression and the influence of world music. Pepper grew up in Oklahoma and moved to New York in the mid-'60s. He was a major part of one of the first fusion groups, Free Spirits, which made a phonograph record for ABC/Paramount in 1967. Pepper, world Health Organization played in the "Everything Is Everything" band in the belated '60s, was bucked up by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry to put more of his heritage into his euphony. Jim Pepper worked with Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and his own bands. He recorded with Paul Motian and Bob Moses, and light-emitting diode a school term from each one for Europa (1984) and Enja (1987). Pepper passed away at the age of 50 from lymphoma.
