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Pepper's Pow Wow

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Pepper's Pow Wow
Studio album by
Released1971
RecordedJanuary 7, 1971
New York City
GenreCrossover Jazz/Native American music
Length38:42
LabelEmbryo
SD 731
ProducerDaniel Weiss
Jim Pepper chronology
Pepper's Pow Wow
(1971)
Comin' and Goin'
(1984)

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.[1][2][3]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

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".[4]

Track listing

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Atlantic Records Catalog: East-West, Embryo, Vortex series accessed November 12, 2015
  2. ^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P. & Callahan, M. Embryo Album Discography accessed November 12, 2015
  3. ^ Discography of Jim Pepper's Work accessed November 12, 2015
  4. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Pepper's Pow Wow – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2015.