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4 December 2009 · Other
Jazzrytmit (finnische Jazzzeitschrift, online): „Hans Koller Jazz Prize Winners 2009“
Harald Justin
English-language announcement of the Hans Koller Prizes 2009 (Austrian jazz awards named after the saxophonist Hans Koller, funded among others by the City of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture) on the website of the Finnish jazz magazine Jazzrytmit. The European Jazz Prize 2009 went to the Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava; Harald Justin’s tribute names, among Rava’s many band projects, those with Harry Pepl first, ahead of Dino Saluzzi, Ray Anderson, Albert Mangelsdorff and Lee Konitz. Two other winners come from Pepl’s circle: Wolfgang Reisinger, drummer of Air Mail, as Musician of the Year, and Clemens Salesny, who since 2015 has shaped the posthumous projects built on Pepl’s recorded tracks, as Newcomer of the Year. The awards ceremony was announced for Saturday, 27 March 2010, at the Vienna jazz club Porgy & Bess.
has undertaken a host of band projects with Harry Pepl, Dino Saluzzi, Ray Anderson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Lee Konitz
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24 February 2009 · Review · DE
KULTUR, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft (Dornbirn): „JazzZwio: Live in Concerts“ (CD-Tipp)
Peter Füssl
CD recommendation by Peter Füssl in KULTUR, a cultural magazine from Vorarlberg, Austria, for the CD/DVD “Live in Concerts” (Universal, 2009). Füssl recalls the legendary JazzZwio of Pepl and Werner Pirchner between 1977 and 1985 and describes the contents: 43 minutes from the 15th Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in 1981 and excerpts from concerts at the Szene Wien in Vienna (1983) and the Konservatoriumssaal in Innsbruck, Austria (1984), with pieces such as “The Day We Know Paul Desmond is Gone”, “Against The Wind”, “Hosent’Raga” and “Air Love And Vitamins”. He calls the two “absolute individualists” whose interplay adds up to far more than the sum of its parts, notes that so far mainly the Muthspiel brothers (the Austrian jazz musicians Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel) have kept their memory alive, and hopes the recordings will bring the Jazzzwio wider recognition, above all among younger musicians.
Great moments of brilliantly offbeat music and gnarled humour
the playful wit of these two strong characters, one Viennese and one Tyrolean to the core, still sounds fresh as morning dew more than 25 years after the recordings were made
On the CD/DVD “Live in Concerts” (2009) with Jazzzwio concerts from 1981 to 1984; Pepl was Viennese, Werner Pirchner Tyrolean, and each brought his own regionally coloured humour into the music
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2009 · Portrait · DE
Jazz Zeit (no. 76, January/February 2009, p. 32 to 33): „Werner Pirchner & Harry Pepl. Der Zeit voraus“ new
Otmar Klammer
Feature by Otmar Klammer in the Austrian jazz magazine Jazz Zeit on the Jazzzwio’s double release “Live In Concerts” (DVD and CD); according to the subtitle, also on why Austrian jazz musicians are rediscovering the music of Pirchner and Pepl. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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22 September 2008 · Review
All About Jazz (US-Jazzmagazin im Internet, gegründet 1995): „Wolfgang Schalk: Wanted“
Mark F. Turner
Review of the album “Wanted” (Frame Up Music, 2008) by the guitarist Wolfgang Schalk from Styria, Austria, in All About Jazz, the US online jazz magazine founded in 1995, with 4 out of 5 stars. Schalk recorded the album in Los Angeles, USA, with Geoffrey Keezer (piano), Dave Carpenter (bass) and Marvin “Smitty” Smith (drums). Mark F. Turner singles out the moving ballad “And Harry Said Goodbye”, which Schalk dedicated to Harry Pepl; he calls Pepl a European guitar master and one of Schalk’s influences. Schalk’s tone and phrasing on this piece are delicate and warm.
There’s also moving balladry as heard on the emotive “And Harry Said Goodbye,” dedicated to another Schalk influence, European guitar master, Harry Pepl.
From the review of Wolfgang Schalk’s album “Wanted” (2008); the guitarist from Styria, Austria, dedicated the ballad to Harry Pepl, who had died in 2005
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2006 · Obituary · DE
Concerto (music magazine), February/March 2006, p. 32: „Harry Pepl (1945–2005)“ new
Martin Schuster
Obituary by Martin Schuster in the Austrian music magazine Concerto; Schuster had interviewed Pepl for the same magazine in 1998 (“Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen”, “One would have to be able to play the piano”). Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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2006 · Report · DE
Swinging Hamburg Journal (vol. 5, no. 17, 2006, p. 28 to 29): „Erlebnisse mit dem ‚King of Swing‘ (2). Harry Pepl: Der totale Wahnsinn – die große Swingerei“ new
Harry Pepl
Second part of a series of recollections of Benny Goodman in the Hamburg magazine Swinging Hamburg Journal; according to the Jazz Index, this part is by Harry Pepl himself. Published in 2006, after his death; where the text comes from is not known. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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November 2002 · Portrait · DE
Jazz Zeit (no. 33, November 2002, p. 31): „Duo-Interpretationen. Pepl/Pirchner, Muthspiel & Muthspiel“ new
Thomas Hein
Feature with interview by Thomas Hein in the Austrian jazz magazine Jazz Zeit on the Pepl/Pirchner duo and the duo of the brothers Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel, who played the music of Pirchner and Pepl in 2002. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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November 2001 · Portrait · DE
Jazz Zeit (no. 24, November 2001, p. 7): „Harry Pepl. Air Mail und der Blues des Harry Pepl“ new
Andreas Felber
Feature with interview by Andreas Felber in the Austrian jazz magazine Jazz Zeit. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.