Edwin Gunther Schuller (January 11, 1955) is an American jazz bassist and composer. His father is Gunther Schuller , a composer, horn player, and music professor, and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller .
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28-746: A ceremony honoring his music and legacy. On July 24, 2023, Pepper's former home in Northeast Portland was added to the National Register of Historic Places , which protects it from demolition and recognizes it as a place of significance to contemporary Indigenous history. With Everything Is Everything With The Free Spirits With Archie James Cavanaugh With Marty Cook With Larry Coryell With The Fugs With Gordon Lee With Charlie Haden With Sandy Hurvitz With Tony Hymas With Paul Motian With Bob Moses With Cam Newton With Ray and
42-812: A member of numerous collective ensembles, including the ensemble that recorded Charles Mingus 's Epitaph in 1990. Schuller has taught at the Newark Academy and at Berklee College of Music , and was the head of the jazz department at Schweitzer Institute of Music in Idaho from 1988. With Franco Ambrosetti With Tim Berne With Anat Fort With Paul Grabowsky With Russ Lossing With Uli Lenz With Joe Lovano With Joe Maneri With Paul Motian With Night Ark With Jim Pepper With Herb Robertson With Mal Waldron With Tom Varner Jim Pepper Jim Gilbert Pepper II (June 18, 1941 – February 10, 1992)
56-494: Is credited as the first to combine elements of jazz and rock. His primary instrument was the tenor saxophone (he also played flute and soprano saxophone ). Of Kaw and Creek heritage, Pepper also achieved notoriety for his compositions combining elements of jazz and Native American music . Don Cherry (of Choctaw and African American heritage) and Ornette Coleman encouraged Pepper to reflect his roots and heritage and incorporate it into his jazz playing and composition. He
70-928: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ed Schuller A native of New York City, Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child. He switched to double bass at age 15, and the same year he had his first professional appearances with Ricky Ford . He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music . Schuller has played with Lee Konitz , Joe Lovano , Ted Curson , Dave Liebman , Abbey Rader , Jimmy Knepper , Clark Terry , Ran Blake , Paul McCandless , Billy Hart , Mat Maneri , Marty Ehrlich , and Roland Hanna , and has toured with Lovano, Paul Motian , Tim Berne , Jim Pepper , Pat Martino , Mal Waldron , Uli Lenz , Karl Berger , Gerry Hemingway , Marty Cook , Nicolas Simian, Perry Robinson , Barry Miles , Terry Silverlight , and Jaki Byard . He has played on over 60 recordings and been
84-556: Is the definitive statement of Pepper's unique "American Indian jazz" with nine songs played by four different line-ups. It was also the first CD issued by the then-new all-CD label Rykodisc . He also worked with the Liberation Music Orchestra , Paul Motian ' s quintet, Bob Moses , Marty Cook , Mal Waldron , David Friesen , Tony Hymas and Amina Claudine Myers , and toured Europe extensively throughout his career. While anecdotal mention of Pepper having played
98-726: Is the most famous example of his hybrid (jazz/Native American) style; the song has been covered by many other artists including Harpers Bizarre , Ralph Towner (with and without Oregon ), Jan Garbarek , Pete Wyoming Bender, Brewer & Shipley , Larry Smith under the pseudonym of Topo D. Bill, and a version recorded by The Supremes in 1969 that went unreleased until 2022. It was also covered in 1973 by Quebec singer-songwriter Robert Charlebois. In his own projects, Pepper recorded with Don Cherry , Naná Vasconcelos , Collin Walcott , Kenny Werner , John Scofield , Ed Schuller , Hamid Drake , and many others. His CD Comin' and Goin' (1984)
112-501: The surname Schuller . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schuller&oldid=1222059828 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Dutch-language surnames Occupational surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
126-717: The near-hit single "Witchi Tai To" (which received abundant airplay reaching number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and on which Pepper was the lead singer). It was issued on Vanguard Apostolic and UK Vanguard in England, and is the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts. [1] His "Witchi Tai To" (derived from a peyote song of the Native American Church which he had learned from his grandfather)
140-498: The saxophone solo on the Classics IV hit " Spooky " exists, this has been rather definitively credited to "Spooky" 's cowriter, Michael (Mike Sharpe) Shapiro, by Classics IV official biographer, Joe Glickman, and others. Jim Pepper died on February 10, 1992, of lymphoma . In 1998, composer Gunther Schuller arranged, conducted and recorded Witchi Tai To: The Music of Jim Pepper for symphony orchestra and jazz band. Pepper
154-782: Was a musical director for Night of the First Americans , a Native American self-awareness benefit concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in 1980 and played also at numerous powwows . Pepper supported the American Indian Movement . Pepper was a member of the short-lived band Everything Is Everything with Chris Hills, Lee Reinoehl, Chip Baker, John Waller and Jim Zitro. Their 1969 self-titled sole album spawned
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#1732802306271168-613: Was among those who encouraged Pepper to bring more of his Native culture into his music, and the two collaborated extensively. Pepper died of lymphoma aged 50. Jim Pepper was born on June 18, 1941, to Gilbert and Floy Pepper in Salem , Oregon . He grew up in Portland . He attended Parkrose High School and Madison High School . Beginning in the late 1960s, Pepper became a pioneer of fusion jazz . His band, The Free Spirits (active between 1965 and 1968, with guitarist Larry Coryell ),
182-659: Was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and singer of Kaw and Muscogee heritage. He moved to New York City in 1964, where he came to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of The Free Spirits , an early jazz-rock fusion group that also featured Larry Coryell and Bob Moses . Pepper went on to have a lengthy career in jazz, recording almost a dozen albums as a bandleader and many more as featured soloist or sideman. Pepper and Joe Lovano played tenor sax alongside each other in an acclaimed band led by drummer Paul Motian , recording three LPs in 1984, 1985 and 1987. Motian described Pepper's playing as "post- Coltrane ". Don Cherry
196-923: Was posthumously granted the Lifetime Musical Achievement Award by First Americans in the Arts in 1999, and in 2000 he was inducted into the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame. In 2005 the Oregon Legislative Assembly honored the extraordinary accomplishments and musical legacy of Pepper. In April 2007, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. accepted Pepper's saxophone and hat at
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