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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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  1. 17 October 1981 · Other · DE

    Donaueschinger Musiktage, festival archive (online): „SWF-Jazz-Session“ (Donaueschinger Musiktage 1981)

    The archive of the Donaueschingen Music Days at SWR, one of the oldest festivals of contemporary music (since 1921), lists for Saturday, 17 October 1981, 8.30 pm, in the Donauhalle (hall B) the SWF Jazz Session with “Jonny tritt ab, keine Jazz-Oper für Stimmen und Instrumente in zwei Teilen” (Jonny Exits, no jazz opera for voices and instruments in two parts) by Mathias Rüegg, who also conducted. The performers were the Vienna Art Orchestra and the Stadtkapelle Radolfzell, a town band, with the singers Karin Krog, Lauren Newton and Maggie Nicols, the saxophonist John Surman and Harry Pepl (guitar); the producer was Joachim-Ernst Berendt, jazz editor of Südwestfunk (SWF), the public broadcaster for south-western Germany. For Pepl the archive lists only this evening.

  2. 8 December 2005 · Obituary · DE

    Jazz thing (News, Online): „Gestorben: Harry Pepl“

    Martin Laurentius and Axel Stinshoff (compilation)

    Short news item of 8 December 2005 giving 6 December as the date of death, which contradicts the other sources (5 December). It quotes Joachim-Ernst Berendt on the duo with Pirchner, names Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi and Dave Liebman, and gives the professorship as 1984 to 1995.

    With his metallic, clear sound and his surprising chord progressions, Pepl developed into one of the most distinctive guitarists in Europe