Thursday, January 31, 2013

Tulalips screen film about American Indian jazz great

Photo courtesy of Sandy Osawa
By Theresa Goffredo, Herald Writer
Jim Pepper was known for pioneering the fusion jazz movement as well as being the kind of musical innovator who blended jazz with American Indian music.

Jazz aficionados are well aware of Pepper's composition "Witchi Tai To," today a jazz classic that was a crossover hit between jazz and the top 40 popular song list when it was first produced in the mid-'60s.

Pepper's life is celebrated in the film documentary "Pepper's Pow Wow," showing at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hibulb Cultural Center on the Tulalip Reservation, 6410 23rd Ave. NE, Tulalip.

Admission for adults is $10. For more information call Hibulb at 360-716-2600 or online at www.hibulbculturalcenter.org/.

Sandy Osawa will present the one-hour film. Osawa, a Makah, is the first American Indian filmmaker to produce on a national broadcast scale and has made 16 broadcast films.

She and her husband, cameraman and editor Yasu Osawa, will answer questions following the film.

Read more: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130126/LIVING/701269987/0/living03

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