Press on Clemens Salesny
What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl and Clemens Salesny: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source.
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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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4 October 2023 · Report · DE
NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (p. 94): „Legende Harry Pepl zurück auf Bühne“
Franz Pfeffer
Report with photo on the Single Swinger Band’s performance at the Open Inn Door Day on Saturday, 30 September 2023, in the sparkasse.event.raum of the Syrnau cultural association in Zwettl, admission free.
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The quartet played with previously unreleased recordings; the picture shows the hosts Michaela and Erwin Schierhuber with Clemens Salesny, Valentin Duit, the sound engineer Markus Wallner and Andi Schreiber.
the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005 returned to the stage
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23 June 2021 · Report · DE
MeinBezirk Kärnten (p. 36, Top-Tipps der Woche): „Harry Pepl (tape) & Band“
Preview of the concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band on Saturday, 26 June 2021, at the Bambergsaal in Villach (8 pm according to MeinBezirk, 7.30 pm according to the Kleine Zeitung and ORF Teletext).
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The quartet around Clemens Salesny plays with unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period (1996 to 2005); because of the Covid restrictions 110 listeners were admitted. Recordings from this evening appear on the album “Live”.
the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005
If you close your eyes, it is almost as if Harry Pepl were still on stage
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15 November 2018 · Review · DE
Kleine Zeitung: „Auratisch: Zwei fünfte Männer“
Otmar Klammer
Concert review of Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band at the Austrian Soundcheck festival at Tube's in Graz, Austria (Tuesday, 13 November 2018).
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Clemens Salesny calls the band a quintet because Markus Wallner steers the playback from the mixing desk and laptop; the real fifth man, however, is Pepl, who “in a few days will already have been sorely missed for 13 years”. Salesny, Andi Schreiber (violin), Martin Bayer (guitar) and Valentin Duit (drums) take up Pepl's style; the band is at its strongest in the pieces built on Pepl's grooving ostinato bass figures.
The real fifth man, who once composed this music in real time on countless instruments
Otherwise the rule was: the smaller the format, the more Pepl.
The real fifth man, who once composed this music in real time on countless instruments, will in a few days already have been sorely missed for 13 years.
A multifaceted excursion through the Pepl cosmos.
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9 November 2018 · Press release · DE
APA-OTS (Presseaussendung von Fullmax Recordings, OTS0138): „Harry Pepl & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band“
Daniel Pepl (Fullmax Recordings)
Press release launching the live project: Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andi Schreiber and Valentin Duit interact with previously unreleased recordings from Pepl's last creative period (1996 to 2005), which he had recorded instrument by instrument himself in his studio in Hernstein, Lower Austria; Markus Wallner handles sound and playback. Dates: Porgy & Bess Vienna (12 November 2018), Tube's Graz (13 November), Brauhaus Breznik Bleiburg (15 November), Jazzit Salzburg (16 November).
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It is then as if Harry Pepl were still on stage, playing together with the live musicians.
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27 March 2018 · Radio · DE
SRF 2 Kultur, Jazz & World aktuell: „Was für die Magengegend“
Roman Hošek (Editorial)
Programme on [SRF 2 Kultur](https://www.srf.ch), the cultural radio station of Swiss public broadcasting, on Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 20:00 to 21:00, repeated on Friday, 30 March 2018.
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Alongside Hugh Coltman, Sons of Kemet and Shake Stew it presents a portrait of the Austrian saxophonist [Clemens Salesny](person:clemens-salesny). According to the playlist it also features Harry Pepl's “[Single Swing](werk:single-swing)” (Fullmax Recordings).
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13 September 2016 · Other · DE
NÖN (Niederösterreichische Nachrichten): „Tribut an Harry Pepl“
Preview under the label “Highlight”: the Jazzclub Melk presents “A tribute to Harry Pepl” on Friday, 23 September 2016, at 8 p.m. at the Tischlerei in Melk, Lower Austria, Austria.
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Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger pay their respects to the jazz musician who died in 2005: besides partly familiar compositions, the quartet interacts with previously unreleased music from Pepl's last creative period, “Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band”. With a band photo.
The Melk jazz club dedicates a performance at the Tischlerei to the “giant of improvisation”.
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19 May 2016 · Review · DE
Jazzpages (Online): „INNtöne 2016 – Rückschau mit Bildern“
Frank Schindelbeck
Festival report with photos from the INNtöne Jazzfestival 2016 on Paul Zauner's farm in Diersbach.
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As the highlight of the second festival day, the author describes the project of Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch, in which recordings from Pepl's home studio were played in and the band entered into a dialogue with them. He refers to the double CD on Fullmax Recordings.
The four musicians on stage played so excellently with Pepl's legacy that, without knowing the story behind it and with your eyes closed, there could have been a quintet on stage.
An extremely successful tribute to one of Austria's important jazz musicians.
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17 May 2016 · Review · DE
OÖ Nachrichten: „Die Inntöne begeisterten als Jazz-Reigen mit einem Klavierwunder“
Christoph Haunschmid
Review of the 31st INNtöne in Diersbach (13 to 15 May 2016): among the most exciting concerts was the homage to Harry Pepl, in which his pieces come from tape and the band comments live, with the singer Agnes Heginger outstanding alongside Clemens Salesny.
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The saxophonist Clemens Salesny, for instance, chose an innovative approach to pay tribute to Harry Pepl, who died in 2005.
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17 May 2016 · Review · DE
Der Standard (Online): „Inntöne: Expressive Gelassenheit“ (Al Foster und das Harry-Pepl-Projekt)
Ljubiša Tošić
Festival report from the INNtöne in Diersbach (Upper Austria, Austria) at Whitsun 2016.
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After the Al Foster Quartet, Ljubiša Tošić describes a quintet with a special feature: alongside Clemens Salesny, Agnes Heginger, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch, Harry Pepl was there too, from tape, his ideas recorded in his home studio forming the foundation of a high-energy mix; Tošić calls the evening an impulsive homage to one of the greats of European jazz. Printed in the edition of 18 May 2016, p. 30.
Al Foster and the Harry Pepl project
The late grandmaster of impulsive improvisation
An impulsive homage to one of the greats of European jazz.
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12 May 2016 · Report · DE
Der Standard (Online): „Inntöne-Festival: Session mit der Historie“
Preview of the INNtöne festival (jazz festival in Diersbach, Upper Austria).
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The saxophonist Clemens Salesny, the guitarist Martin Bayer, the drummer Peter Primus Frosch and the singer Agnes Heginger interpret pieces by Harry Pepl on the Saturday, improvise on them and respond to recordings that Pepl improvised for his Lonely Single Swinger Band: guitar, synthesizer, piano, vocals and drums, all recorded by himself at home. Der Standard calls this a formidable example of an engagement with history that yields “delicate results”.
There are, however, ways of engaging with history that yield delicate results. A formidable example can be experienced on Saturday at the Inntöne festival in Diersbach (which begins on Friday), when sounds by the guitarist Harry Pepl (who died in 2005) also ring out from the stage.
Guitar, synthesizer, piano, vocals, drums: Pepl once recorded everything himself at home.
Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger interpret Harry Pepl
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2016 · Review · DE
Jazzpodium: „Harry Pepl & Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch, Agnes Heginger, Fullmax15-01 CD“
Alexander Schmitz
Review of the 2015 double CD in the German jazz magazine Jazzpodium, probably 2016.
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Schmitz recalls Le Monde's “giant of improvisation”, Scofield's “machine gun”, the Jazzzwio, Air Mail and the MIDI guitar that first made Real Time Composing possible. He describes twelve previously unreleased soliloquies from the Lonely Single Swinger Band and 13 Pepl compositions in a new guise with Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger, with Herbert Joos, Alex Meissl and Clemens Wenger as guests.
which now brings the name of the great Viennese guitarist Harry Pepl back into public awareness with a project of equal stature
There is nothing at all to say that could even come close to capturing this late, magnificent Pepl spectacle.
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15 November 2015 · Review · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Kritik in Kürze“
MW
Short review from the Austrian Soundcheck at the Orpheum in Graz on the tenth anniversary of Pepl's death (concert on Friday, 13 November 2015): the quartet around Clemens Salesny has an extraordinary encounter with Harry Pepl, who is virtually present through late recordings from his home studio.
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He was virtually present as a multi-instrumentalist, with those late recordings from his home studio in which he pushed through to pure, intuitive expressive sound.
interacted with the master as if he were sitting on stage, and still conquered spaces of their own, exciting, powerful, free.
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22 October 2015 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Die Würdigung einer Vielseitigen“
Martin Gasser
Preview of the 24th Austrian Soundcheck: Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize, and a homage to Pepl is to premiere on 13 November.
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Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger approach the late recordings that Pepl had made single-handedly in his studio in Lower Austria as “Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band”.
Harry Pepl was a guitarist the like of whom this country has perhaps never produced a second time.
With drums, guitar, piano, synthesizer and voice he created inner dialogues, as it were.
In his recording studio in Lower Austria the musician had recorded pieces single-handedly as “Harry Pepl’s Lonely Single Swinger Band”. With drums, guitar, piano, synthesizer and voice he created, as it were, inner dialogues.
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19 September 2015 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Die Ö1 Jazznacht“: „Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl“
Christian Bakonyi
Broadcast for the 70th birthday on Saturday, 19 September 2015, 23:03 to 24:00, with the studio guests Daniel Pepl, Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer.
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Also played is an archive find of the trio with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley from Tamsweg, dated 15 December 1988.
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21 November 2013 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Schon gehört?“: „Schon gehört?“ (Kulturtipps vom 21. November 2013)
Cultural tips from the radio station Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel): the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz), a cooperation between the jazz department of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and gamsbART (Graz concert promoter), devotes an evening at the Dom im Berg in Graz, Austria, billed as “Super Sax”, to the saxophone, among others with the trio of Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch. On 22 November Salesny receives the Harry Pepl Prize, awarded this year for the fourth time.
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On 22 November this encouragement prize goes to the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny.
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8 November 2013 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Junge Österreicher, alte Damen“
MG
Preview of the 22nd Austrian Soundcheck in Graz: the prize named after Harry Pepl goes to the saxophonist Clemens Salesny (grant of 4,000 euros), who plays at the saxophone evening “Super Sax!” on 22 November.
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Harry Pepl was one of the outstanding figures in Austrian jazz.
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4 August 2009 · Report · DE
Vorarlberger Nachrichten (Seite D4, Wohin): „Blue Brass“ (Tipp zu Paul Zauner in Bezau)
Event tip for Paul Zauner’s Blue Brass on the village square in Bezau (Vorarlberg, Austria); the trombonist is introduced as a former band member of David Murray and Pepl.
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With his trombone he served greats such as David Murray or the brilliant Harry Pepl
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20 November 2006 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 34): „Alter Mut auf neuen Wegen“ (1. Harry-Pepl-Preis geht an Wolfgang Schiftner)
Matthias Wagner
Report on the closing night of the 14th Austrian Soundcheck at the M59 in Graz: the JazzWerkstatt Wien played two sets as a “Tribute to Harry Pepl”, first Clemens Wenger on MIDI keyboard, then the prize-winner Wolfgang Schiftner with Clemens Salesny and colleagues. Gerhard Kosel of gamsbART explained the criteria of the prize, which comes with the obligation to work on Pepl’s legacy.
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above all an innovative way of working musically, the courage to leave one’s own traces
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15 March 2006 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (APA0260, culture): „Starke Töne: JazzWerkstatt Wien lädt wieder zum Festival ins WUK“
APA (initials leh/aku)
Preview of the second festival of the JazzWerkstatt Wien at the WUK in Vienna from 16 March to 8 April 2006.
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The evening of 19 March is dedicated to the memory of Harry Pepl and Bumi Fian, with guests such as Wolfgang Puschnig, Wolfgang Reisinger and Raphael Preuschl.