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  1. 24 July 2002 · Portrait · DE

    Falter (p. 55, culture): „Leiwand oder ned leiwand“ (Doppelporträt Muthspiel & Muthspiel und Jazzzwio)

    Klaus Taschwer

    Double portrait ahead of the premiere of the programme “Muthspiel & Muthspiel play Pepl/Pirchner” at the Glatt & Verkehrt festival. Wolfgang Muthspiel, who studied guitar with Pepl in Graz, remembers lessons “like an extended concert” and Pepl’s laconic verdict, either “leiwand” (Viennese for great) or “net leiwand”; for Christian Muthspiel the Jazzzwio came “like a liberation”.

    Pepl was one of the most interesting guitarists in jazz. Great musicians like Dave Liebman or Jack DeJohnette say so too.

    The guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, once Pepl’s student in Graz; the title of the Falter article, “Leiwand oder ned leiwand”, is Viennese for “great or not great”

    Wolfgang Muthspiel

    The lessons with him at the conservatory were like an extended concert.

    Wolfgang Muthspiel

    Pepl and Pirchner showed us that you can make exactly the music you want to make.

    The trombonist and composer Christian Muthspiel on the Jazzzwio as a model for his generation; the title of the Falter article, “Leiwand oder ned leiwand”, is Viennese for “great or not great”

    Christian Muthspiel

    listening again now, I noticed once more how magnificently Pepl and Pirchner played. That was improvisation in the best sense.

    Wolfgang Muthspiel

    He played something to me, I had to play along, and every few bars he commented on how it was going. In his words that was, laconically, either ‘leiwand’ or ‘net leiwand’ [Viennese for ‘great’ or ‘not great’].

    Wolfgang Muthspiel

    The time I studied with Pepl was very formative. The lessons with him at the conservatory were like an extended concert.

    Wolfgang Muthspiel