Here’s the link for live streaming audio:
http://kboo.fm/
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Jim Pepper Hour of Power on KBOO 90.7FM
Portland, Oregon—Nick Gefroh will host the Jim Pepper Hour of Power from noon until 2:00 on Wednesday July 28.
Here’s the link for live streaming audio:
http://kboo.fm/
I will bring my collection of rare Jim Pepper recordings and Nick will bring his, and you’re right, the show IS two hours long! It won't seem long enough! You'll see....
Here’s the link for live streaming audio:
http://kboo.fm/
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund opens at PSU
Jim Pepper (1941-1992), a Native American virtuoso jazz musician of international significance, was born in Salem and died at home in Portland of lymphoma.
Of Creek and Kaw ancestry, Jim’s Indian name was Hunga-che-ada, the Flying Eagle.
In a career that bridged cultures and continents, Jim Pepper created a sound that was all his own, a synthesis of Native American songs and chants, jazz, and the rhythms of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.
A highly original singer, dancer, bandleader, composer, innovator and legendary saxophone player, Jim performed throughout the United States, Europe and Africa alongside the greatest players of the day.
Jim Pepper’s posthumous honorings include: Lifetime Musical Achievement Award by the First Americans in the Arts (1999); Indian Hall of Fame(1998); Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame (2000).
Floy Pepper spoke during her acceptance of her son's First Americans in the Arts award in 1999: “Jim Pepper was a member of the Kaw Indian Nation known as 'The Wind People' from his father. From me, his mother, he was a member of the Creek Indian Nation known as 'The People of the Waters.' It's no wonder his music was so strong and powerful--with the wind to carry his music to the four directions of the Earth. And as long as the grass shall grow and the waters flow--which is forever--may his spirit remain alive for time immemorial”
In 2005, the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Joint Resolution 31, honoring the life and achievements of Jim Pepper. SJR 31 encouraged the creation and endowment of the Jim Pepper Hunga-che-ada Flying Eagle Chair at Portland State University “to further the study of Native American music and its relationship to jazz.”
Now, in 2010, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Native American Studies Department, Portland State University, has committed its support to the Jim Pepper Arts Festival and created the Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund.
The 2010 Founding Occupant of the Jim Pepper Hunga-che-ada Flying Eagle Chair will be Gunther Schuller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
The Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund will provide financial assistance to students enrolling in the Native American Studies Department at Portland State University.
Contributions should be sent to:
Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Native American Studies
Portland State University
Post Office Box 751 503-725-3081 tel
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751 503-725-3905 fax
Of Creek and Kaw ancestry, Jim’s Indian name was Hunga-che-ada, the Flying Eagle.
In a career that bridged cultures and continents, Jim Pepper created a sound that was all his own, a synthesis of Native American songs and chants, jazz, and the rhythms of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.
A highly original singer, dancer, bandleader, composer, innovator and legendary saxophone player, Jim performed throughout the United States, Europe and Africa alongside the greatest players of the day.
Jim Pepper’s posthumous honorings include: Lifetime Musical Achievement Award by the First Americans in the Arts (1999); Indian Hall of Fame(1998); Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame (2000).
Floy Pepper spoke during her acceptance of her son's First Americans in the Arts award in 1999: “Jim Pepper was a member of the Kaw Indian Nation known as 'The Wind People' from his father. From me, his mother, he was a member of the Creek Indian Nation known as 'The People of the Waters.' It's no wonder his music was so strong and powerful--with the wind to carry his music to the four directions of the Earth. And as long as the grass shall grow and the waters flow--which is forever--may his spirit remain alive for time immemorial”
In 2005, the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Joint Resolution 31, honoring the life and achievements of Jim Pepper. SJR 31 encouraged the creation and endowment of the Jim Pepper Hunga-che-ada Flying Eagle Chair at Portland State University “to further the study of Native American music and its relationship to jazz.”
Now, in 2010, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Native American Studies Department, Portland State University, has committed its support to the Jim Pepper Arts Festival and created the Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund.
The 2010 Founding Occupant of the Jim Pepper Hunga-che-ada Flying Eagle Chair will be Gunther Schuller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
The Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund will provide financial assistance to students enrolling in the Native American Studies Department at Portland State University.
Contributions should be sent to:
Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Native American Studies
Portland State University
Post Office Box 751 503-725-3081 tel
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751 503-725-3905 fax
Thursday, July 01, 2010
2010 Jim Pepper Arts Festival announcements coming soon!
By Sean Cruz
(Portland, Oregon) We’ll be going live midsummer! Meanwhile, see the following brief (!) Gunther Schuller bio. The complete one will run a couple of volumes! Please note the last paragraph, referencing Gunther's 85th birthday this year, being celebrated at more than a dozen tribute concerts around the world.
Gunther's leaving us after the conclusion of the Jim Pepper Arts Festival to fly directly to Greece, to one of those tribute concerts, where he'll receive another honorary doctorate to add to the dozen or so others….
On September 28 at Portland State University, he will be honored as the Founding Occupant of the Jim Pepper Hunga-Che-Ada Flying Eagle Chair in the Department of Native American Studies, fulfilling Oregon Senate Joint Resolution 31 (2005), “to further the study of Native American music and its relationship to jazz.”
As the Jim Pepper Chair, Gunther will be with us for two weeks as an artist-in-residence, working with the University, students and faculty, and with the Portland community, to leverage the genius of Jim Pepper, the brilliant Native American saxophonist, singer, dancer, bandleader, innovator and composer, into an instrument that makes real differences in real lives, building a path to higher education for Native American students, financed with Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarships.
The 2010 Jim Pepper Arts Festival will culminate at Trinity Cathedral on Oct 7, 8 and 9 with the American premiere performance of “Gunther Schuller’s Witchi-Tai-To: The Music of Jim Pepper”.
This series will feature the Portland Chamber Orchestra, Gunther Schuller conducting, with the Jim Pepper Remembrance Band and the Intertribal Veterans Powwow Drum from Ft. Defiance, Arizona. Native American poet and storyteller Ed Edmo will also be on the bill.
All Jim Pepper events are benefits for the Native American Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at Portland State University.
Let's not forget to wish Gunther a happy birthday while he's in town.
Sean
Gunther Schuller (b. 1925, Jackson Heights, NY)
Gunther Schuller has earned prominence as a composer, conductor, jazz and classical performer, author, educator, administrator, music publisher, record producer, and all-around advocate of other innovative musicians. He is the winner of several major honors including the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Genius Award, DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award and inaugural membership in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
Born to an artist mother and a New York Philharmonic violinist father on St. Cecilia’s Day, which celebrates the Patron Saint of Music, Schuller’s destiny was clear early on. Within his first 15 years, he would discover talent for both art and music. That combination would lead to some of his most exciting compositions, including his well known Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959). Another famous combination of interests, classical music and jazz, would go on to define his career and secure his place in the musical history of the 20th century as a leader in the “Third Stream” movement.
He began as a composer, studied flute, and then switched to French horn. Schuller had already performed professionally under the baton of Arturo Toscanini and Antal Dorati before becoming the principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony at age 17 in 1943. In his two important years in Cincinnati, Schuller first met Duke Ellington and developed an insatiable appetite for live jazz. By the time he joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1945, Schuller was spending much of his time at the dozen or so clubs on Broadway and New York’s legendary 52nd Street with his wife, Marjorie Black Schuller (1925-92).
His early involvement with the New York jazz scene eventually led to a life-long relationship with the Modern Jazz Quartet’s John Lewis, then a young bebop pianist with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1950, Lewis suggested Schuller replace an absent French horn player on the third and final Birth of the Cool session led by Miles Davis. Schuller would go on to record two more albums with Davis, including 1958’s Porgy and Bess with Gil Evans, and several more with Lewis as a major collaborator. Together they created the Jazz and Classical Music Society in 1955, founded the Lenox School of Jazz in 1957, performed on each other’s recordings (1955-65), and co-led the Third Stream ensemble Orchestra USA from 1962-65.
Despite collaborations with musical titans like Milton Babbitt, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Dimitri Mitropolous on the classical side and Charles Mingus, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Scott LaFaro, and the Modern Jazz Quartet on the jazz side, Third Stream music was mostly maligned by critics and poorly supported by the public. But Schuller, who had gained classical recognition for his composing of works like Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1950) and his first book, Horn Technique (1962), never missed a beat. With references like Leonard Bernstein, conductor of Schuller’s Triplum (1967) with the New York Philharmonic and a close friend, Schuller’s star was on the rise in the classical world.
He left the Met in 1959, and continued to freelance on French horn with artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Johnny Mathis, and Frank Sinatra until retiring to focus on composing in 1963. That year also began his twenty-two year association with the Berkshire Music Center where he presented Tanglewood’s first-ever jazz concert (1963), and served as Head of Contemporary Music Activities (1963-84) and Artistic Director (1969-1984).
In 1967, Schuller left his position as Associate Professor of Composition at Yale University to become the President of the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the helm of the NEC, he created the first conservatory-level degree program in jazz, founded three important jazz repertory orchestras including the Grammy-winning NEC Ragtime Ensemble, formed the Third Stream Department, and assembled an amazing array of talented faculty including George Russell, Joe Maneri, Ran Blake, Russell Sherman, Jaki Byard, Victor Rosenbaum, John Heiss and Benjamin Zander.
Before Schuller’s performances with the NEC’s Ragtime Ensemble helped spur the worldwide revival of interest in Scott Joplin in 1972-73, he would write the first of his seminal jazz books (Early Jazz: It’s Roots and Musical Development, 1968), tour Eastern Europe extensively for the U.S. State Department (1963-78), receive the first three of his eleven honorary doctorates in music, and premiere two of his operas (1966’s The Visitation and 1970’s The Fisherman and his Wife). In 1975, Schuller orchestrated Joplin’s opera Treemonisha and premiered and recorded it with the Houston Opera, also performing it on Broadway.
Also in 1975, Schuller founded the first of his three companies, Margun Music, to publish the works of composers like Alec Wilder and many younger, less-known composers who deserved public recognition. Before being sold in 1999, Margun, and its sister company GunMar, published over 1000 works. GM Recordings, Schuller’s independent record label, released its first recording in 1981—the piano music of twelve-tone composer Robert DiDomenica—and celebrates its 20th anniversary and the issuance of over 115 jazz and classical recordings in 2001. Schuller has received the Alice M. Ditson Award (1970) and many other honors for his selfless championing of other musicians.
After retiring from the presidency of NEC and his directorial position at Tanglewood, Schuller spent most of the 1980’s as one of the primary on-call composers for orchestras performing contemporary classical works. He also premiered his jazz ballet, The Great Gatsby (1987), in Pittsburgh, wrote his second award-winning jazz book, The Swing Era (1989), and edited Charles Mingus’ Epitaph for its posthumous premiere at Lincoln Center in New York (1989).
The 1990’s were arguably Schuller’s most productive decade. He collected a throng of awards including the MacArthur Genius Award (1991), the DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award (1993), the Pulitzer Prize for Composition (1994), the BMI Lifetime Achievement Award (1994), Musical America’s Composer of the Year (1995), the DownBeat Critics Poll Jazz Album of the Year with Joe Lovano (1995), and Columbia University’s William Schumann Award for lifetime achievement (1989).
He co-directed and transcribed early jazz music for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1991-97) and in 1997 released his controversial treatise on conducting, The Compleat Conductor (Oxford University Press). He also won the Gold Medal in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997), and was commissioned to compose a piece for the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, The Black Warrior, which premiered in Birmingham, Alabama (1998).
In 2000, he arranged several of Native American saxophonist Jim Pepper’s compositions for orchestra, jazz band, powwow drum and singers.
“Gunther Schuller’s Witchi-Tai-To: The Music of Jim Pepper,” was recorded in Cologne, Germany on Tutu Records, Gunther Schuller conducting the WDR Radio Orchestra, members of the Jim Pepper Remembrance Band, and Yellowhammer, a Ponca Southern-style powwow drum and singers from Oklahoma.
Approaching his sixtieth year in professional music in 2002, Gunther Schuller has composed nearly 180 works and is still active as a world-traveling conductor, public speaker, and label president/producer with GM Recordings. He is currently documenting his unique life experiences in a long-awaited autobiography and celebrating his 85th birthday at more than a dozen tribute concerts around the world.
(Portland, Oregon) We’ll be going live midsummer! Meanwhile, see the following brief (!) Gunther Schuller bio. The complete one will run a couple of volumes! Please note the last paragraph, referencing Gunther's 85th birthday this year, being celebrated at more than a dozen tribute concerts around the world.
Gunther's leaving us after the conclusion of the Jim Pepper Arts Festival to fly directly to Greece, to one of those tribute concerts, where he'll receive another honorary doctorate to add to the dozen or so others….
On September 28 at Portland State University, he will be honored as the Founding Occupant of the Jim Pepper Hunga-Che-Ada Flying Eagle Chair in the Department of Native American Studies, fulfilling Oregon Senate Joint Resolution 31 (2005), “to further the study of Native American music and its relationship to jazz.”
As the Jim Pepper Chair, Gunther will be with us for two weeks as an artist-in-residence, working with the University, students and faculty, and with the Portland community, to leverage the genius of Jim Pepper, the brilliant Native American saxophonist, singer, dancer, bandleader, innovator and composer, into an instrument that makes real differences in real lives, building a path to higher education for Native American students, financed with Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarships.
The 2010 Jim Pepper Arts Festival will culminate at Trinity Cathedral on Oct 7, 8 and 9 with the American premiere performance of “Gunther Schuller’s Witchi-Tai-To: The Music of Jim Pepper”.
This series will feature the Portland Chamber Orchestra, Gunther Schuller conducting, with the Jim Pepper Remembrance Band and the Intertribal Veterans Powwow Drum from Ft. Defiance, Arizona. Native American poet and storyteller Ed Edmo will also be on the bill.
All Jim Pepper events are benefits for the Native American Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at Portland State University.
Let's not forget to wish Gunther a happy birthday while he's in town.
Sean
Gunther Schuller (b. 1925, Jackson Heights, NY)
Gunther Schuller has earned prominence as a composer, conductor, jazz and classical performer, author, educator, administrator, music publisher, record producer, and all-around advocate of other innovative musicians. He is the winner of several major honors including the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Genius Award, DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award and inaugural membership in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
Born to an artist mother and a New York Philharmonic violinist father on St. Cecilia’s Day, which celebrates the Patron Saint of Music, Schuller’s destiny was clear early on. Within his first 15 years, he would discover talent for both art and music. That combination would lead to some of his most exciting compositions, including his well known Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959). Another famous combination of interests, classical music and jazz, would go on to define his career and secure his place in the musical history of the 20th century as a leader in the “Third Stream” movement.
He began as a composer, studied flute, and then switched to French horn. Schuller had already performed professionally under the baton of Arturo Toscanini and Antal Dorati before becoming the principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony at age 17 in 1943. In his two important years in Cincinnati, Schuller first met Duke Ellington and developed an insatiable appetite for live jazz. By the time he joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1945, Schuller was spending much of his time at the dozen or so clubs on Broadway and New York’s legendary 52nd Street with his wife, Marjorie Black Schuller (1925-92).
His early involvement with the New York jazz scene eventually led to a life-long relationship with the Modern Jazz Quartet’s John Lewis, then a young bebop pianist with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1950, Lewis suggested Schuller replace an absent French horn player on the third and final Birth of the Cool session led by Miles Davis. Schuller would go on to record two more albums with Davis, including 1958’s Porgy and Bess with Gil Evans, and several more with Lewis as a major collaborator. Together they created the Jazz and Classical Music Society in 1955, founded the Lenox School of Jazz in 1957, performed on each other’s recordings (1955-65), and co-led the Third Stream ensemble Orchestra USA from 1962-65.
Despite collaborations with musical titans like Milton Babbitt, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Dimitri Mitropolous on the classical side and Charles Mingus, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Scott LaFaro, and the Modern Jazz Quartet on the jazz side, Third Stream music was mostly maligned by critics and poorly supported by the public. But Schuller, who had gained classical recognition for his composing of works like Symphony for Brass and Percussion (1950) and his first book, Horn Technique (1962), never missed a beat. With references like Leonard Bernstein, conductor of Schuller’s Triplum (1967) with the New York Philharmonic and a close friend, Schuller’s star was on the rise in the classical world.
He left the Met in 1959, and continued to freelance on French horn with artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Johnny Mathis, and Frank Sinatra until retiring to focus on composing in 1963. That year also began his twenty-two year association with the Berkshire Music Center where he presented Tanglewood’s first-ever jazz concert (1963), and served as Head of Contemporary Music Activities (1963-84) and Artistic Director (1969-1984).
In 1967, Schuller left his position as Associate Professor of Composition at Yale University to become the President of the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the helm of the NEC, he created the first conservatory-level degree program in jazz, founded three important jazz repertory orchestras including the Grammy-winning NEC Ragtime Ensemble, formed the Third Stream Department, and assembled an amazing array of talented faculty including George Russell, Joe Maneri, Ran Blake, Russell Sherman, Jaki Byard, Victor Rosenbaum, John Heiss and Benjamin Zander.
Before Schuller’s performances with the NEC’s Ragtime Ensemble helped spur the worldwide revival of interest in Scott Joplin in 1972-73, he would write the first of his seminal jazz books (Early Jazz: It’s Roots and Musical Development, 1968), tour Eastern Europe extensively for the U.S. State Department (1963-78), receive the first three of his eleven honorary doctorates in music, and premiere two of his operas (1966’s The Visitation and 1970’s The Fisherman and his Wife). In 1975, Schuller orchestrated Joplin’s opera Treemonisha and premiered and recorded it with the Houston Opera, also performing it on Broadway.
Also in 1975, Schuller founded the first of his three companies, Margun Music, to publish the works of composers like Alec Wilder and many younger, less-known composers who deserved public recognition. Before being sold in 1999, Margun, and its sister company GunMar, published over 1000 works. GM Recordings, Schuller’s independent record label, released its first recording in 1981—the piano music of twelve-tone composer Robert DiDomenica—and celebrates its 20th anniversary and the issuance of over 115 jazz and classical recordings in 2001. Schuller has received the Alice M. Ditson Award (1970) and many other honors for his selfless championing of other musicians.
After retiring from the presidency of NEC and his directorial position at Tanglewood, Schuller spent most of the 1980’s as one of the primary on-call composers for orchestras performing contemporary classical works. He also premiered his jazz ballet, The Great Gatsby (1987), in Pittsburgh, wrote his second award-winning jazz book, The Swing Era (1989), and edited Charles Mingus’ Epitaph for its posthumous premiere at Lincoln Center in New York (1989).
The 1990’s were arguably Schuller’s most productive decade. He collected a throng of awards including the MacArthur Genius Award (1991), the DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award (1993), the Pulitzer Prize for Composition (1994), the BMI Lifetime Achievement Award (1994), Musical America’s Composer of the Year (1995), the DownBeat Critics Poll Jazz Album of the Year with Joe Lovano (1995), and Columbia University’s William Schumann Award for lifetime achievement (1989).
He co-directed and transcribed early jazz music for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1991-97) and in 1997 released his controversial treatise on conducting, The Compleat Conductor (Oxford University Press). He also won the Gold Medal in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997), and was commissioned to compose a piece for the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, The Black Warrior, which premiered in Birmingham, Alabama (1998).
In 2000, he arranged several of Native American saxophonist Jim Pepper’s compositions for orchestra, jazz band, powwow drum and singers.
“Gunther Schuller’s Witchi-Tai-To: The Music of Jim Pepper,” was recorded in Cologne, Germany on Tutu Records, Gunther Schuller conducting the WDR Radio Orchestra, members of the Jim Pepper Remembrance Band, and Yellowhammer, a Ponca Southern-style powwow drum and singers from Oklahoma.
Approaching his sixtieth year in professional music in 2002, Gunther Schuller has composed nearly 180 works and is still active as a world-traveling conductor, public speaker, and label president/producer with GM Recordings. He is currently documenting his unique life experiences in a long-awaited autobiography and celebrating his 85th birthday at more than a dozen tribute concerts around the world.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
1st Annual Jim Pepper Arts Festival: Mark your calendars!
1000Nations presents:
The 1st Annual Jim Pepper Arts Festival
Benefiting Portland State University
Department of Native American Studies
September 28 – October 11, 2010
Portland, Oregon
Music Dance Theater Film Video Comedy Spoken Word Art Literature
Featuring Gunther Schuller
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music
In The American Premiere Performance of
Gunther Schuller’s Witchi Tai To:
The Music of Jim Pepper
The Jim Pepper Remembrance Band
Portland Chamber Orchestra
The Intertribal Veterans Powwow Drum from Ft. Defiance, AZ
Ed Edmo
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
October 7, 8, 9 2010
Other performers and events TBA
Tickets to go on sale mid-summer
Essential Jim Pepper on YouTube
Jim Pepper in performance
[] “Witchi Tai To”, from Pepper’s Powwow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSjUcANNEng
[] “Water”, from Pepper’s Powwow, performed live at Oregon Zoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8lAdjjZtw&feature=related
[] Jim Pepper Story, Pt 1, Oregon ArtBeat, Oregon Public Broadcasting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGaq0lmUli8&NR=1
[] Jim Pepper Story, Pt 2, Oregon ArtBeat, Oregon Public Broadcasting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjhW4RnL2U&feature=related
[] Native Nations, hosted by David Liberty, May 20, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GE9QIdaBU
[] “Legacy of the Flying Eagle”, performed live at Raab, 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvdJk1kk3M
[] “Ya No Ho”, from Comin’ and Goin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fOKVtjFKA&feature=related
[] “Ruby My Dear”, duet with Mal Waldron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDAUy3Mu8k&feature=related
[] “Witchi Tai To”, from Pepper’s Powwow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSjUcANNEng
[] “Water”, from Pepper’s Powwow, performed live at Oregon Zoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8lAdjjZtw&feature=related
[] Jim Pepper Story, Pt 1, Oregon ArtBeat, Oregon Public Broadcasting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGaq0lmUli8&NR=1
[] Jim Pepper Story, Pt 2, Oregon ArtBeat, Oregon Public Broadcasting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjhW4RnL2U&feature=related
[] Native Nations, hosted by David Liberty, May 20, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GE9QIdaBU
[] “Legacy of the Flying Eagle”, performed live at Raab, 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvdJk1kk3M
[] “Ya No Ho”, from Comin’ and Goin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fOKVtjFKA&feature=related
[] “Ruby My Dear”, duet with Mal Waldron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDAUy3Mu8k&feature=related
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Native Nations interview on Jim Pepper
Here's the link to the Native Nations interview, May 20, 2010 on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU646asPghM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GE9QIdaBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU646asPghM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GE9QIdaBU
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Jim Pepper Lives!...Let's celebrate!
You are going to want to be in Portland in early October 2010. Jim Pepper Arts Festival announcements coming soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBdaYKqMUs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBdaYKqMUs
Monday, April 19, 2010
Rare Jim Pepper audio posted by Ted Trimble
Bassist and longtime Pepper collaborator Ted Trimble has posted six rare audio files of Jim Pepper performing:
Basie Blues
Mr. D.C. (Don Cherry)
Round Trip
Solo Jim Pepper
3/4 Gemini
You don't know what love is
Jim Pepper: saxophones
Ted Trimble: bass
John "JB" Butler: guitar
Jimmy Peluso: drums
http://www.tedtrimble.com/music.html
Basie Blues
Mr. D.C. (Don Cherry)
Round Trip
Solo Jim Pepper
3/4 Gemini
You don't know what love is
Jim Pepper: saxophones
Ted Trimble: bass
John "JB" Butler: guitar
Jimmy Peluso: drums
http://www.tedtrimble.com/music.html
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Jim Pepper Live at Raab on cd
PAO Records has issued this live performance of Jim Pepper with the Amina Claudine Myers Trio on cd, titled "Afro Indian Blues"
Recorded May 19, 1991
International Jazz Festival
Raab, Austria
http://www.pao.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=80
My copy just arrived in the mail.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
"Witchi-Tai-To" Important Jim Pepper festival announcement coming soon! ...oh hell!
Portland,Oregon-- "Witchi-Tai-To"...Gunther Schuller...Portland Chamber Orchestra...Jim Pepper Remembrance Band...David Ornette Cherry...Ed Edmo...many more...Fall 2010...Portland State University, Dept of Native American Studies...1st annnual.... Details, announcements to follow soon!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Gunther Schuller interviewed on NPR
The indefatigable, indomitable, everlasting, Pulitzer-prize-winning, Third-Stream-Music-creating composer Gunther Schuller is interviewed on National Public Radio here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104437778
Jim Pepper updates:
1. Gunther Schuller, 2010 Jim Pepper Chair, Founding Occupant, Portland State University; working on it….
2. 1st annual Jim Pepper Festival of the Arts, October 2010, Portland, Oregon, featuring "Gunther Schuller's Witchi Tai To, the Music of Jim Pepper", Gunther Schuller conducting; working on it….
Sean
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104437778
Jim Pepper updates:
1. Gunther Schuller, 2010 Jim Pepper Chair, Founding Occupant, Portland State University; working on it….
2. 1st annual Jim Pepper Festival of the Arts, October 2010, Portland, Oregon, featuring "Gunther Schuller's Witchi Tai To, the Music of Jim Pepper", Gunther Schuller conducting; working on it….
Sean
Monday, December 29, 2008
"The Legend of Jim Pepper" coming to a Multnomah County Library near you!
Spoken-word artist Lynn Darroch will perform his new Jazz Stories repertoire, including The Legend of Jim Pepper, at several Portland library locations in early 2009.
Titled “Lynn Darroch's Jazz Stories '09 – Local Heroes and Other American Originals”, these performances will feature Randy Porter on piano and David Evans on tenor sax.
The one-hour shows are free, all-ages and open to the public.
Mr. Darroch’s new jazz stories include:
The Legend of Jim Pepper:
the life of Betty Carter and the death of Chet Baker;
how Glen Moore met William Faulkner's widow and Warren Bracken found peace in Portland;
lessons from George Page and Clare Fischer about standing up and losing; and,
One Woman Confronts the Crows of Autumn.
January 11, 2009 — 2:00 p.m.
Woodstock Library (6008 S.E. 49th Ave.)
Free
January 18, 2009 — 2:00 p.m.
Sellwood-Moreland Library (7860 S.E. 13th Ave.)
Free
January 25, 2009 — 2:00 p.m.
St. Johns Library (7510 N. Charleston Ave.)
Free
February 11, 2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Northwest Library (2300 N.W. Thurman St.)
Free
Link to the website: Lynn Darroch, “Where the stories are always musical:”
http://www.lynndarroch.com/
Sean Cruz writes Jim Pepper House, here:
www.jimpepperhouse.blogspot.com
Titled “Lynn Darroch's Jazz Stories '09 – Local Heroes and Other American Originals”, these performances will feature Randy Porter on piano and David Evans on tenor sax.
The one-hour shows are free, all-ages and open to the public.
Mr. Darroch’s new jazz stories include:
The Legend of Jim Pepper:
the life of Betty Carter and the death of Chet Baker;
how Glen Moore met William Faulkner's widow and Warren Bracken found peace in Portland;
lessons from George Page and Clare Fischer about standing up and losing; and,
One Woman Confronts the Crows of Autumn.
January 11, 2009 — 2:00 p.m.
Woodstock Library (6008 S.E. 49th Ave.)
Free
January 18, 2009 — 2:00 p.m.
Sellwood-Moreland Library (7860 S.E. 13th Ave.)
Free
January 25, 2009 — 2:00 p.m.
St. Johns Library (7510 N. Charleston Ave.)
Free
February 11, 2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Northwest Library (2300 N.W. Thurman St.)
Free
Link to the website: Lynn Darroch, “Where the stories are always musical:”
http://www.lynndarroch.com/
Sean Cruz writes Jim Pepper House, here:
www.jimpepperhouse.blogspot.com
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Jim Pepper House updated
Now that my time serving in the Oregon state senate is at an end, I am focusing myself on a project very close to my heart: Jim Pepper.
Although I never met this Great Soul personally, I was transfixed by his performance/presence at a Larry Coryell concert in San Rafael, California in the early 1970's. The name of the venue was, appropriately enough, Pepperland!
I left the concert without knowing his name, but more than thirty years later, I can still see him standing at the front of the stage, "Jim" baseball cap and lumberjack shirt, torrents and cascades of notes and pure emotion pouring out of that silver saxophone. He reached deep down inside of me, and I've never forgotten the experience.
I learned his name in 2002, shortly after I bought my home, which was the Pepper family home for many years. Jim had passed on several years before I moved to Portland.
I saw the Remembrance Band perform at the 2005 Portland Jazz Festival, the first time I heard Jim's music as a body of work, and he reached up there (I was in the balcony) and grabbed me again.
I spoke to Senator Gordly about the experience the next day as we rode to the Capitol together, and she assigned me to draft what would become a Senate Joint Resolution (SJR 31, 2005) honoring the life and achievements of the Flying Eagle.
Later, motivated by the need to hear the Remembrance Band again, I promoted two performances at Portland's Blue Monk.
In 2007, the Pepper family asked me to speak for them at the National Museum of the American Indian on the occasion of the dedication of Jim's saxophone and other memorabilia to the NMAI permanent collection. This is one of the singular honors and moments of my life....
This event gave me the opportunity to meet and hear the musicians of Yellowhammer, and to understand in greater depth Jim's place in the world, and in the history of American music.
Now, as the Nation faces grave economic times, I am convinced that the world needs Jim Pepper more than ever, and I am dedicating myself to organizing the first annual Jim Pepper Festival of the Arts, to be held in Portland Oregon in 2009.
I invite all comments, from near and far, for one thing we know for certain is that Pepper Lives!
Although I never met this Great Soul personally, I was transfixed by his performance/presence at a Larry Coryell concert in San Rafael, California in the early 1970's. The name of the venue was, appropriately enough, Pepperland!
I left the concert without knowing his name, but more than thirty years later, I can still see him standing at the front of the stage, "Jim" baseball cap and lumberjack shirt, torrents and cascades of notes and pure emotion pouring out of that silver saxophone. He reached deep down inside of me, and I've never forgotten the experience.
I learned his name in 2002, shortly after I bought my home, which was the Pepper family home for many years. Jim had passed on several years before I moved to Portland.
I saw the Remembrance Band perform at the 2005 Portland Jazz Festival, the first time I heard Jim's music as a body of work, and he reached up there (I was in the balcony) and grabbed me again.
I spoke to Senator Gordly about the experience the next day as we rode to the Capitol together, and she assigned me to draft what would become a Senate Joint Resolution (SJR 31, 2005) honoring the life and achievements of the Flying Eagle.
Later, motivated by the need to hear the Remembrance Band again, I promoted two performances at Portland's Blue Monk.
In 2007, the Pepper family asked me to speak for them at the National Museum of the American Indian on the occasion of the dedication of Jim's saxophone and other memorabilia to the NMAI permanent collection. This is one of the singular honors and moments of my life....
This event gave me the opportunity to meet and hear the musicians of Yellowhammer, and to understand in greater depth Jim's place in the world, and in the history of American music.
Now, as the Nation faces grave economic times, I am convinced that the world needs Jim Pepper more than ever, and I am dedicating myself to organizing the first annual Jim Pepper Festival of the Arts, to be held in Portland Oregon in 2009.
I invite all comments, from near and far, for one thing we know for certain is that Pepper Lives!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Jim Pepper featured on KBOO 90.7 FM Saturday Dec 22
Tune in to KBOO at 6:00 p.m. this Saturday for an hour of the late, great Native American saxophone player Jim Pepper on Jazz Rap 2, hosted by Gene the Jazz Machine.
I will be Gene the Jazz Machine’s guest, playing some rare Pepper sides, and discussing the forthcoming 1st annual Jim Pepper Festival of the Arts, to be held in Portland.
Connect to KBOO for live streaming audio here: http://www.kboo.fm/listen
---Sean Cruz
I will be Gene the Jazz Machine’s guest, playing some rare Pepper sides, and discussing the forthcoming 1st annual Jim Pepper Festival of the Arts, to be held in Portland.
Connect to KBOO for live streaming audio here: http://www.kboo.fm/listen
---Sean Cruz
Sunday, August 26, 2007
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