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| Collection | Entry | Year | Identifier | Open and work with |
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| Quotation | „Harry sat down at the piano, which he never really learned to play, nor practised, and plays, let’s the music flow through him.“Wulf Müller, blog “European Jazz Masters Of The Past”, 5 February 2024 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „He swings like hell“Harry Pepl über Benny Goodman · Wulf Müller, blog “European Jazz Masters Of The Past”, 5 February 2024 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „He was an improviser of the very highest rank“Stefan Heckel · Dissertation “Instant Composing”, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), 2024, p. 10 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „he went into the studio with Austrian guitar master Harry Pepl and Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen to record ‘Cracked Mirrors’“Wulf Müller, blog “European Jazz Masters Of The Past”, 12 April 2024 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „If you're Harry Pepl, you bust it into a thousand pieces and shoot it into the ether.“Instagram (@ecm_vinylcollector), 9 June 2024 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „Musically, I still find this album exciting, challenging and powerful.“Wulf Müller, blog “European Jazz Masters Of The Past”, 5 February 2024 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „studied jazz guitar at the University of the Arts in Graz with the legendary Harry Pepl“impuls (Tyrol, Austria), 19 November 2024, p. 12; translated from the German | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „to portray the quirky world of Werner Pirchner and his legendary “Zwio” partner Harry Pepl“Kurier, Lower Austria supplement, 2 February 2024, p. 12; translated from the German | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „While Harry was building his reputation as one of Europe’s most interesting and unique guitarists“Wulf Müller, blog “European Jazz Masters Of The Past”, 5 February 2024 | 2024 | ||
| Quotation | „a project dedicated to Harry Pepl, who died in 2005“Kronen Zeitung, culture section, 27 September 2025, p. 38; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „A surprisingly lively, highly musical result emerges“Robert Tendl, Kleine Zeitung · “Im Spiel mit der Wiener Gitarristenlegende”, Kleine Zeitung, 18 December 2025, p. 51 | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „An intense musical dialogue with the “giant of improvisation”.“Kleine Zeitung, “Aviso”, 14 December 2025, p. 47; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „Archive material gives rise to the shadowy outlines of a living man.“F. Jureček, Kronen Zeitung · “Die Schemen eines Lebenden”, Kronen Zeitung, 18 December 2025, p. 42 | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl’s lyrical hit “Air, Love and Vitamines”“Andreas Felber · Andreas Felber, head of the Ö1 jazz department, on the version by Martin Gasselsberger and Tim Collins, programme text “Kammerjazzige Duoklänge”, orf.at, 6 November 2025; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „In Austria the drummer leaves his mark not only on ECM albums alongside Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl“Salzburger Nachrichten, culture section, 28 October 2025, p. 9; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „In the 1980s Harry Pepl was one of the most sought-after guitarists in Europe.“Christian Bakonyi · Christian Bakonyi, text accompanying the Ö1 Jazznacht for Pepl’s 80th birthday, orf.at, 6 September 2025; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „Not many musicians release new CDs 20 years after their death.“F. Jureček, Kronen Zeitung · “Die Schemen eines Lebenden”, Kronen Zeitung, 18 December 2025, p. 42 | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „Now it can be experienced live again. I think that is unique in Europe“Daniel Pepl · Fullmax Recordings press text for the album “Live”, 2025, p. 1 | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „The incredible improvisations and rapid cascades of sound, delivered in the most exciting way at the highest technical level, thrilled not …“Christian Bakonyi · On the Jazzzwio in Montreux 1981; programme text for the Ö1 Jazznacht “Zum 80. Geburtstag von Gitarrist Harry Pepl”, orf.at, Saturday 6 September 2025; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „The jazz guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005, is the only Austrian musician to have recorded three albums with DeJohnette, in the 1980s“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur, APA0208), 27 October 2025; translated from the German | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „“Air, Love & Vitamins” from the repertoire of the Austrian JazzZwio of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner“RONDO (online), 27 September 2025 | 2025 | ||
| Quotation | „An anecdote that shows how deeply Pepl, despite his modern, highly virtuosic guitar playing, was also rooted in the jazz guitar tradition“Thomas Palme · Facebook post for Harry Pepl's 81st birthday, 10 September 2026; translated from the German | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Doris Linser, soprano, absolutely must appear in the line-up. Without her we could not have set all the submitted texts to music in …“Martin Mumelter · Email to Daniel Pepl, 19 October 2026; translated from the German | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl, whom I later met again and again and could admire, was also such a kind person! In the studio, too, the calm he radiated was …“Thomas Declaude · Email to Daniel Pepl, 18 October 2026, written for the archive | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „His musicianship was at a high level, and of course his proficiency and mastery of his instrument was indicative of a style all his own. I …“Ronnie Burrage · Email to Daniel Pepl, 18 October 2026, written for the archive | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „I would rather not speak of “leadership”, though; there was none, from then on we thought everything through and did everything together.“Martin Mumelter · Email to Daniel Pepl, 19 October 2026; translated from the German | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Man, Harry Pepl was first and foremost a wonderful human being. I am proud to call him a friend. His playing was fearless, and that's how …“Ronnie Burrage · Email to Daniel Pepl, 18 October 2026, written for the archive | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Repertoire that engages with important figures of jazz in Vienna, such as the guitarist Harry Pepl“Ö1, Radiosession (programme page on orf.at), 24 June 2026; translated from the German | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „to this day a very vivid memory of one of Austria's greatest jazz guitarists“Thomas Palme · Facebook post for Harry Pepl's 81st birthday, 10 September 2026; translated from the German | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Unable to read music, I presented my ideas for the songs. And what these outstanding musicians made of them was simply magnificent! I can …“Thomas Declaude · Email to Daniel Pepl, 18 October 2026, written for the archive | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Unfortunately, it is so long ago that I only remember the days with your father: great and exciting.“Bo Stief · Email to Daniel Pepl, 21 October 2026, written for the archive | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Your father and I got on very well, and when he sadly had to go so early, it was truly a great loss. But his work lives on.“Albert Mair · Email to Daniel Pepl, 19 October 2026, written for the archive | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Your father was a very good and original guitarist and deserves to be remembered.“Scott Yanow · Email to Daniel Pepl, Thursday, 22 October 2026, approved for publication the same day (‘attributed to Scott Yanow, jazz journalist/historian’) | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „“Never-before-heard sounds” is what Joachim Ernst Berendt promises the audience at the final concert in Mainz on 28 November, played by an …“Julia Neupert and Sara Barth, Chronology of the SWR NEWJazz Meeting (1966 to 2026), SWR, 2026 | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „… a trailblazer and innovator for sure!“Paul Williamson · Email to Daniel Pepl, Friday, 23 October 2026, approved for publication on Saturday, 24 October 2026 (‘attributed to you as Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Jazz and Improvisation at Monash University’) | 2026 | ||
| Quotation | „Angular, clear and powerful was his playing on various acoustic and electric guitars.“Roland Spiegel · Broadcast script “Was heute geschah” (What happened today), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian public broadcaster), Roland Spiegel (undated, before 2020; Daniel Pepl archive) | |||
| Quotation | „Benny had such a radiance, really, in his phrasing and in everything, it was absolutely brilliant“Harry Pepl · On Benny Goodman; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-10), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 60 | |||
| Quotation | „Giant of improvisation“Le Monde · Le Monde (original article in the gamsbART archive, Heimo Steps); quoted in Kleine Zeitung, 10 January 1988, p. 18 | |||
| Quotation | „His duo partner, the vibraphonist Werner Pirchner, called him “a completely straight-down-the-line guy”.“Roland Spiegel · Broadcast script “Was heute geschah” (What happened today), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian public broadcaster), Roland Spiegel (undated, before 2020; Daniel Pepl archive) | |||
| Quotation | „I played Rock & Soul strings because they stay in tune, don’t oxidise, are easy to bend, and are soft and perfect in sound.“Harry Pepl · Advertisement by Thomastik-Infeld (Vienna, Austria) for the guitar strings “Rock & Soul Strings”, 1980s; translated from the German | |||
| Quotation | „It actually came about through the Art Orchestra that we played together more and more.“Harry Pepl · On Air Mail; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 4-53), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 47 | |||
| Quotation | „That is me, I recorded all of it myself“Harry Pepl · Reply to Herbert Joos, who compared a multitrack recording with the ORF Big Band; as told by Clemens Salesny in the interview with Stefan Heckel (20 September 2018), Heckel 2024, p. 239 | |||
| Quotation | „The Art Orchestra was open as a band, there was a lot of room, even though some things were written out too. It was ace to play along.“Harry Pepl · On the Vienna Art Orchestra; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 4-50), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 47 | |||
| Quotation | „understood immediately at the first or second rhythmic impulse, so that everyone knew where the other was“Harry Pepl · On Jack DeJohnette; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 2-25), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 140 | |||
| Quotation | „With his musicality, his search for sounds that differed from the jazz conventions of the time, and with such lovely punning titles as …“Roland Spiegel · Broadcast script “Was heute geschah” (What happened today), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian public broadcaster), Roland Spiegel (undated, before 2020; Daniel Pepl archive) |
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