Pepper's Pow Wow

Pepper's Pow Wow
Studio album by Jim Pepper
Released	1971
Recorded	January 7, 1971 New York City
Genre	Crossover Jazz/Native American music
Length	38:42
Label	Embryo SD 731
Producer	Daniel 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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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)

References