Pepper's Pow Wow

[Jack Lefton]

Last night the Sundance Channel showed "Pepper's Pow Wow", a documentary on
the life and career of the late saxophonist Jim Pepper, featuring plenty of
performances,and interviews with Pepper, Bob Moses, Bert Wilson, Ed
Schuller, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron, the last two also playing.

It will be repeated on 5/7 at 11:30 PM, for any of you lucky enough to get
the channel.

Bob Thiele once told me that Pepper recorded an albums worth of Ornette
tunes for him (I'm pretty sure it was Impulse, though it could have been
Flying Dutchman). Anybody know if the tapes still exist?

[Tom Walls]

In article <01bc599a$60975f60$b7832399@hp-customer>, "Jack Lefton"
<feder...@msn.com> wrote:

Don't know about the latter, but Pepper released an LP on Infinity
Records(I think -- at any rate is was Herbie Mann's label, and Pepper was
playing with Herbie at that time) during the early 70's titled "Pepper's
Pow Wow". Several tunes were based on Cree and other Native American
chants (like that old chestnut "Witchie Tai To"). Larry Coryell, and
Billy Cobham played on it.

--
Psychochromatically speaking,
T. Walls

[Kevin Tkacz]

In article <01bc599a$60975f60$b7832399@hp-customer>, "Jack Lefton" <feder...@msn.com> says:
>
>Last night the Sundance Channel showed "Pepper's Pow Wow", a documentary on
>the life and career of the late saxophonist Jim Pepper, featuring plenty of
>performances,and interviews with Pepper, Bob Moses, Bert Wilson, Ed
>Schuller, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron, the last two also playing.
>
>It will be repeated on 5/7 at 11:30 PM, for any of you lucky enough to get
>the channel.
>
>Bob Thiele once told me that Pepper recorded an albums worth of Ornette
>tunes for him (I'm pretty sure it was Impulse, though it could have been
>Flying Dutchman). Anybody know if the tapes still exist?
>

Sadly, I know nothing of the tapes, but am very curious about the film.
Is this something that could be found through mail-order? How old is the
film?
Who directed/produced/distributed? We are not enlightened enough
in Chicago to have the Sundance channel, so I was hoping that I could use
another avenue to track it down. I have no problem with leg-work, and am
very curious to see this. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.