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1982 · Other · SK
Bratislavské jazzové dni, festival archive (online): „Archív 1979-2001“, 1982
The online archive of the Bratislavské jazzové dni (Bratislava Jazz Days, the jazz festival in Bratislava, Slovakia) lists the programmes of the years 1979 to 2001 without dates. For 1982 it names the “Medzinárodná konkláva” (International Conclave) with C. Zelenák, K. Koch (GDR), E. Viklický, H. Pepl (Austria), J. Audes, K. Debski (Poland), V. Nikolov (Bulgaria) and “V. Lackerschmidt” (West Germany), meaning the vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid; the same year’s line-up also included the Family of Percussion, Rena Rama and the Toots Thielemans Quartet. Opus released this formation’s “St. Thomas” in 1983 on the double LP “Bratislava Jazz Days 1982”.
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16 September 1979 · Review · HU
Hajdú-Bihari Napló (Tageszeitung des Komitats Hajdú-Bihar, Debrecen, Hungary): Nr. 217: „Fesztivál öt napig. Összefoglaló a debreceni dzsessznapokról“
Gábor Turi
Review of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days 1979 (“Festival for five days”): four venues, ten concerts, three jam sessions, more than twenty ensembles and 7,000 visitors, organised by the radio together with the Kölcsey Ferenc cultural centre. Turi divides the performers into three groups according to their performance and places the guitar duo Pepl and Brkovity in the top group, alongside Ganelin, Mirrors, Gusztáv Csík, the duo Viklický and Andršt and Jasper van ’t Hof; he highlights the duo’s virtuoso technique and perfect interplay.
the virtuoso technique and perfect interplay of the guitar duo Pepl and Brkovity came as a surprise
Gábor Turi in his review of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days (Hungary) in September 1979, at which Pepl played at midnight in a duo with the Yugoslav guitarist Voja Brković; Turi ranks the duo among the top group of the festival