Press archive
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.
2 entries filtered · CSV of the filtered entries
Newest first · Oldest first
-
10 December 2021 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume Nachtausgabe (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Jazzorchestraler Rundfunk: Erinnerungen an die ORF Big Band“
Ines Reiger und Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)
Programme marking 50 years of the ORF Big Band on Friday, 10 December 2021, continued after midnight. The radio big band (ORF: Austria’s public broadcaster), which grew out of the Johannes Fehring Orchestra in October 1971, existed until 1982; the text names Pepl alongside Fritz Pauer and Erich Bachträgl among its important Austrian musicians. The music includes recordings with Carl Drewo, Slide Hampton and Dexter Gordon.
Important Austrian jazz musicians such as the pianist Fritz Pauer, the guitarist Harry Pepl or the drummer Erich Bachträgl complemented this international quality congenially.
-
29 October 2020 · Interview · DE
Raiffeisenzeitung (p. 24, Freizeit): „Salut to Jimi Hendrix“
Manfred Horak
Interview with the guitarist Harri Stojka about his album “Salut to Jimi Hendrix”. Looking back on the 1970s, Stojka counts Harry Pepl, with Erich Kleinschuster, Fritz Pauer and Erich Bachträgl, among the outstanding musicians of the Austrian jazz scene of the time, with which his rock band had little contact.
There were Erich Kleinschuster, Fritz Pauer, Harry Pepl, Erich Bachträgl, they were incredible musicians
Harri Stojka