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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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  1. 2026 · Other · DE

    SWR (Südwestrundfunk), SWR NEWJazz Meeting: „Chronologie SWR NEWJazz Meeting (1966 bis 2026)“

    Julia Neupert und Sara Barth

    Chronology of the SWR NEWJazz Meeting (formerly the Südwestfunk’s New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden) from 1966 to 2026. For 1980 it lists the “String Meeting”, an ensemble dominated by string instruments with six string players and two guitarists, among them Harry Pepl; the final concert took place in Mainz on 28 November 1980. Other participants: John Blake, Wolfgang Dauner, Krzesimir Dębski, Christian Escoudé, Pierre Favre, Didier Lockwood, Barre Phillips, Ack van Rooyen, Bo Stief, Fredy Studer and Abdul Wadud.

    “Never-before-heard sounds” is what Joachim Ernst Berendt promises the audience at the final concert in Mainz on 28 November, played by an ensemble dominated by string instruments

  2. 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.