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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.
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30 October 2026 · Report · NL
JazzNu (online): „Nalatenschap Harry Pepl op internet gearchiveerd“ new
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Report by the news desk of JazzNu, the Dutch jazz portal (Nieuws section), on Friday, 30 October 2026: a digital archive on the life and work of the Austrian jazz guitarist, composer and improviser Harry Pepl (1945 to 2005) has been online at harrypepl.com since 26 October 2026, looked after by his son Daniel Pepl. The website offers an overview of almost two hundred works, around 110 releases and more than four hundred press publications. The report mentions Pepl’s path from classical guitar to jazz, the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio with the vibraphonist Werner Pirchner (sometimes with Adelhard Roidinger on bass as a third member), his time in Benny Goodman’s band in 1980 and 1981 and in the Michel Portal Unit from 1984 to 1988, and albums for the renowned European jazz label ECM. Dave Holland, Enrico Rava, Wolfgang Puschnig, Steve Swallow, Jack DeJohnette and the Vienna Art Orchestra are named as well. The report singles out Pepl’s work with Dutch musicians: in November 1980 with the trumpeter Ack van Rooyen in the “String Summit” at the SWF New Jazz Meeting in Baden-Baden and Mainz (recorded in 1981 on MPS as “One World In Eight”), and in September 1979 at the Debrecen Jazz Days in Hungary in a duo with the pianist Jasper van ’t Hof. According to the review in Hajdú-Bihari Napló of Sunday, 16 September 1979, Pepl played there in a guitar duo with Voja Brković; Jasper van ’t Hof appeared at the same festival. The report shows a photograph, “Harry Pepl in his home studio”.
a digital archive about the life and work of the Austrian jazz guitarist, composer and improviser Harry Pepl
an overview of almost two hundred works by his father, of some 110 releases and of well over four hundred press publications