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20 May 1987 · Review · DE
Neue Zeit (Graz daily newspaper): „Brisant-Phantastisches mit Pepl und Miklin“ new
Ewald Pfau
Review of the last “M 59” concert on Monday, 18 May 1987, in Graz, Austria, with Pepl, Karlheinz Miklin, Billy Hart and Ron McClure, recorded by the ORF and privately in a mobile studio. According to Pfau, Pepl was at the centre of the evening.
A relaxed and masterly Harry Pepl was at the centre of the last “M 59” concert last Monday in Graz.
On the last concert of the Graz series “M 59” on Monday, 18 May 1987, with Pepl, Karlheinz Miklin, Billy Hart and Ron McClure, in the Neue Zeit, a Graz daily newspaper.
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20 May 1987 · Review · DE
Kleine Zeitung (daily newspaper, Graz): „Der Abend des Harry Pepl“ new
Otmar Klammer
Review of the concert by Karlheinz Miklin, Harry Pepl, Ron McClure and Billy Hart on Monday, 18 May 1987, at the Studentenheim Münzgrabenstraße in Graz, Austria (recorded for the ORF, Austria’s public broadcaster, and for the Amros studio). According to Klammer it was the guitarist’s evening; there is also a photo by Klammer with the caption “The guitarist Harry Pepl shone at the ‘Münzl’” (the venue’s nickname).
But it was Harry Pepl’s evening.
On the concert by Karlheinz Miklin, Harry Pepl, Ron McClure and Billy Hart on Monday, 18 May 1987, at the Studentenheim Münzgrabenstraße in Graz, Austria, in the Kleine Zeitung, a Graz daily newspaper.
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2 December 1984 · Review · DE
Kurier (Vienna daily newspaper), p. 12, reviews section: „Markenzeichen Austrojazz“ (Szene Wien: Konzerte mit Miklin, Sokal, Pepl) new
Gunther Baumann
Review of the concerts by Karlheinz Miklin, Harry Sokal and Harry Pepl at the Szene Wien (a venue in Vienna-Simmering) in the preceding days. Pepl played with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair, who according to Baumann had come to Vienna to make recordings with Sokal and Pepl; Baumann writes in hymn-like terms about Pepl’s guitar playing.
Thrilling above all was the encounter with Harry Pepl. The guitarist works with berserker force and yet with the tenderest sensitivity.
From a review of the concerts by Karlheinz Miklin, Harry Sokal and Harry Pepl at the Szene Wien (Vienna-Simmering) in the Kurier, a Viennese daily newspaper; Pepl played with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair.
His solos: absurdly sparkling, dark cascades of notes, cleverly interrupted by oases of chords full of strange, touching harmony.
From a review of the concerts by Karlheinz Miklin, Harry Sokal and Harry Pepl at the Szene Wien (Vienna-Simmering) in the Kurier, a Viennese daily newspaper; Pepl played with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair.
That was intellectual and at the same time emotional avant-garde jazz.
On the quartet of Harry Sokal and Harry Pepl with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair at the Szene Wien (Vienna-Simmering), from the same review in the Kurier, a Viennese daily newspaper.
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16 June 1983 · Review · DE
Kleine Zeitung (daily newspaper, Graz), “Jazzkeller” column: „Jazz-Zwillinge auf Erfolgskurs“ new
Werner Krause / Leo Lukas
Review of the ECM LP by Pirchner, Pepl and DeJohnette (recorded on a Sunday afternoon), with an announcement of the concert that same evening, Thursday, 16 June 1983, 8 pm, at the Studentenhaus Münzgrabenstraße 59 in Graz, Austria. The newspaper quotes a critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (one of Germany’s leading national dailies).
This really ought not to exist: that in neighbouring Austria such mastery should ripen virtually unnoticed.
A quotation at second hand: the Kleine Zeitung, a Graz daily newspaper, reproduces the voice of a critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a leading German daily, on the Jazzzwio and the ECM LP with Jack DeJohnette.