Bill Siegel, of New Hampshire, maintains the Web site, www.jimpepperlives.wordpress.com, and can be reached at bmsiegel@comcast.net. His work also appears on www.inmotionmagazine.com, in Planet Jazz, and elsewhere.
I've never been able to read music -- it's easier for me to decipher faded Egyptian hieroglyphics (ok, maybe not. But at least I can make up a story to go along with the hieroglyphs!). And I've never been able to play a string of more than....oh, let's say one...recognizable note on any musical instrument known to humankind (which at least leaves me some off-planet possibilities). Having said all that, as a non-musician, I feel it is only through my writing that I can return even a small bit to all the jazz artists who have enriched my life with their music. I am currently working on a series of articles and interviews related to Native American saxophonist/composer, Jim Pepper (1941-1992), who took the songs and chants he learned from his Indian family and melded them with the jazz form to create an entirely new jazz thing. I am particularly interested in how his influence continues to be felt by a whole new crew of musicians defining the next generation of jazz.
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My Desert Island Picks
- Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (always)
- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme; Africa/Brass
- Jim Pepper - The Path
What I'm Listening To Now (As of 2009-04-09)
- Miles Davis -- In A Silent Way (always!)
- Lucinda Williams -- West, Essence
- Jesse Cook -- Tempest
- Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson -- 16 Biggest Hits
- Pharoah Sanders -- Tauhid
- Jim Pepper -- Dakota Song, The Path, Camargue
Favorite Web Sites
Favorite Artists
Charles Mingus
Jim Pepper
John-Carlos Perea
Favorite Columns
Book Review
CD/LP Review
DVD/Video/Film Review
Extended Analysis
General Articles
Interview
Jazz Poetry
Opinion/Editorial
Favorite Jazz Genres
African Jazz
Blues
Fringes of Jazz
Fusion/Progressive Rock
Latin/World
Modern Jazz
Straightahead/Mainstream/Bop/Hard Bop/Cool
