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What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source. The originals are protected by copyright and kept in the archive; we provide them to researchers and the press on request.
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2025 · Press release · DE
Fullmax Recordings (press kit for the album, German, English, French, Polish): Harry Pepl 80: „Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band“, Live-Dialog mit einem Giganten der Improvisation
Fullmax Recordings (draft by Clemens Salesny)
Two-page press release for the 80th birthday and the album “Live”.
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The project combines Pepl’s original tracks from the Hernstein studio with Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andi Schreiber and Valentin Duit. Page 2 contains the track list, instrumentation, recording locations and credits; versions exist in four languages.
Now it can be experienced live again. I think that is unique in Europe
Daniel Pepl
Original (PDF) · DEOriginal (PDF) · ENOriginal (PDF) · FROriginal (PDF) · PL How to cite
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2025 · Other · DE
violafalb.com (Website Viola Falb): Biografie Viola Falb
Viola Falb
Biography on the website of the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb, covering her training, bands such as FALB FICTION and the saxophone quartet PHOEN, and a list of awards up to 2025. It lists the Harry Pepl Prize under 2016; the contemporary reports in Falter and NÖN document the award in November 2015.
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6 September 2025 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Die Ö1 Jazznacht“: „Zum 80. Geburtstag von Gitarrist Harry Pepl“
Christian Bakonyi
Broadcast on Saturday, 6 September 2025, 23:03 to 24:00, with the guests Daniel Pepl, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer.
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The accompanying article mentions John Scofield and the MIDI guitar and points to the concert at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) on 28 September 2025.
In the 1980s Harry Pepl was one of the most sought-after guitarists in Europe.
The incredible improvisations and rapid cascades of sound, delivered in the most exciting way at the highest technical level, thrilled not only the audience in Montreux in 1981
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22 September 2025 · Press release · DE
APA-OTS (Presseaussendung Österreichischer Jazzpreis): „Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025: Die Nominierten stehen fest!“
Österreichischer Jazzpreis
Press release on the nominations for the Austrian Jazz Award (award for jazz from Austria): the Jazz Award Academy of 149 experts chose 30 nominees in three categories from 174 submissions.
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In the Best Album category, “Live” by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band is nominated, alongside albums by Christoph Pepe Auer, the Kenji Herbert Trio, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Asja Valcic, among others. The award ceremony was announced for 26 November 2025 at the Casino Velden.
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27 September 2025 · Review · DE
RONDO (Online): „Songs From The Treehouse“ (Tim Collins, Martin Gasselsberger)
Werner Stiefele
Review of the duo album by vibraphonist Tim Collins and pianist Martin Gasselsberger on GLM Music.
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Apart from Billie Eilish's “Everything I Wanted” and “Air, Love & Vitamins” from the repertoire of the Jazzzwio of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner, the duo plays its own pieces; the reviewer places the line-up in the tradition of Gary Burton and Chick Corea.
“Air, Love & Vitamins” from the repertoire of the Austrian JazzZwio of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner
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27 September 2025 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 38, culture): „Besondere Hörerfahrung“
Michaela Reichart
Preview of the autumn programme of Ute Pinter’s Graz concert series open music, now in its 25th year.
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Besides Studio Dan and the Darius Jones Trio, an evening for Harry Pepl was already fixed for December 2025: the Single Swinger Band at the Stockwerk on 16 December. mica (Austrian music information centre) spoke on 23 September 2025 of the „doppelten Harry-Pepl-Gedenkjahr“ [“double Harry Pepl commemorative year”].
a project dedicated to Harry Pepl, who died in 2005
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27 October 2025 · Obituary · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur, APA0208): „US-Jazz-Legende Jack DeJohnette 83-jährig gestorben“
APA (rie/bik/luw)
Agency report on the death of the US drummer Jack DeJohnette on Sunday, 26 October 2025, in Woodstock.
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It honours his work with Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and Charles Lloyd and his appearances in Austria and, on information from Daniel Pepl, states that Harry Pepl was the only Austrian musician to record three albums with DeJohnette in the 1980s. The report also ran on kleinezeitung.at, noen.at, bvz.at, vienna.at, vol.at and msn.com.
The jazz guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005, is the only Austrian musician to have recorded three albums with DeJohnette, in the 1980s
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27 October 2025 · Report · DE
mica music austria (musicaustria.at): „Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025: Die Gewinner*innen stehen fest!“
Report on the announcement of the winners on Monday, 27 October 2025, four weeks before the gala in Velden: in the Best Album category, “Live” by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band takes second place behind the Kenji Herbert Trio.
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The Austrian Music Council (27 October 2025) and the AKM (29 October 2025) published the same ranking.
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28 October 2025 · Encyclopaedia · DE
mica music austria, music database: Harry Pepl
Database entry with biography, activities, awards, commissions, performance venues and a list of works (64 works); last updated 28 October 2025. The entry counts Pepl among the guitarists who have shaped Austrian jazz nationally and internationally, and records 2nd place at the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria).
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28 October 2025 · Obituary · DE
Salzburger Nachrichten (p. 9, culture): „Er gab im Jazz die Richtung vor: Jack DeJohnette ist tot“
Florian Oberhummer
Obituary of Jack DeJohnette tracing his work with Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and the label ECM (the renowned European jazz label).
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For Austria, Oberhummer points to the ECM recordings with Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl and to DeJohnette’s appearances at the Saalfelden jazz festival since 1980. The text appeared online on sn.at on 27 October 2025.
In Austria the drummer leaves his mark not only on ECM albums alongside Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl
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November 2025 · Report · DE
ORF Kärnten (Online): Bericht über den Österreichischen Jazzpreis 2025
Report on the presentation of the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria) at Casino Velden, with the ranking in the Best Album category: Kenji Herbert Trio ahead of Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band and the Tobias Meissl Trio.
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6 November 2025 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Kammerjazzige Duoklänge“
Andreas Felber (Gestaltung)
Programme “Music from all directions” with new releases by Sinfonia de Carnaval and by the duo of Martin Gasselsberger (piano) and Tim Collins (vibraphone).
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On their album “Songs From The Treehouse” the two play, alongside their own compositions, Pepl’s “Air, Love & Vitamins”, which Felber calls Pepl’s lyrical hit. The page lists the duo’s concerts from January to February 2026.
Harry Pepl’s lyrical hit “Air, Love and Vitamines”
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26 November 2025 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „On stage Spezial“: Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025, live aus dem Casino Velden
Andreas Felber
Live broadcast of the award ceremony on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 19:30. The playlist includes “Hernstein Blues” from the album “Live” (Pepl and Salesny, 8:10).
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26 November 2025 · Report · DE
Fullmax Recordings (Website): Beitrag zum Österreichischen Jazzpreis 2025, Best Album
Post on the album “Live” taking 2nd place in the Best Album category at the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria).
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The Jazz Academy consists of 149 experts, there were over 170 submissions and a seven-member expert jury; the award ceremony took place at Casino Velden.
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14 December 2025 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 47, Aviso): „Im Dialog mit Harry Pepl“
Listing for the open music evening at the Stockwerk in Graz on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 8 pm: a quartet plays live with previously unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period.
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The listing documents the concert date, which the reports of 18 December do not give.
An intense musical dialogue with the “giant of improvisation”.
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18 December 2025 · Review · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 51, culture, column „Open Music im Grazer Stockwerk“): „Im Spiel mit der Wiener Gitarristenlegende“
Robert Tendl
Report on the evening by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band at the Stockwerk in Graz.
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Pepl left behind a great deal of material from his home studio; Salesny, Bayer, Schreiber, Duit and the technician Markus Wallner bring the audio tracks onto the stage via amplifier and loudspeakers and improvise along with them.
A surprisingly lively, highly musical result emerges
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18 December 2025 · Review · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 42, culture): „Die Schemen eines Lebenden“ (Stockwerk Graz: Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band blinzelt ins Jenseits)
F. Jureček
Concert review of the performance in Graz: a quintet around Clemens Salesny and the sound engineer Markus Wallner shapes an evening of improvisation from multitrack recordings by the guitarist, who died in 2005. Pepl’s audio tracks are heard as sounds dynamically processed at the mixing desk, with Andi Schreiber, Martin Bayer and Valentin Duit playing along.
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Archive material gives rise to the shadowy outlines of a living man.
Not many musicians release new CDs 20 years after their death.