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Volume XLIII
Established in 1970
Number 29
Committed to Cultural Diversity
Wednesday • July 31. 2013
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Parkrose to host first Jim Pepper Music Festival
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It started as a fan’s appreciation for a late Portland jazz
musician, but it has grown into a celebration not only of Jim
Pepper’s Native ethnic heritage, but of a broader multi
culturalism for the Portland area.
Parkrose High School will host the first annual Jim Pepper
Native Arts and Music Festival from Wednesday, Aug. 7
through Friday, Aug. 10.
In doing so it will provide four days of great jazz, and it will
pay tribute to a great artist but relatively unknown Oregon
native and Native American son.
Pepper was a jazz, rock and fusion saxophonist, and by his
fans estimates he was one of the greatest tenor sax players
in the history of the instrument. He was also one of the first
Native American musicians to incorporate his ethnic heri­
tage into his music; his composition. The Four Winds, was
performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Cologne Symphony Orchestra.
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