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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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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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  1. 2 August 2021 · Radio · DE

    Ö1 (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Solo am Genfer See: Harri Stojka“

    Albert Hosp (Gestaltung)

    Programme page for an Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) broadcast about Harri Stojka’s solo appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on 12 July 1981, aired on 1 August 2021. The text places the performance in a guitar evening at which Biréli Lagrène, Philip Catherine and Harry Pepl in duo with Werner Pirchner also played, confirming the date of the Jazzzwio’s Montreux concert.

    at a guitar evening at which Biréli Lagrène, Philip Catherine and (in a duo with Werner Pirchner) Harry Pepl also performed

  2. 25 September 2020 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, In Concert: „Fünf Österreicher und eine Cool-Jazz-Legende“ (Das Harald-Neuwirth-Konsort mit Lee Konitz 1976 im Wiener Funkhaus)

    Helmut Jasbar (Gestaltung)

    Programme with a historic concert document from the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) archive: on 14 June 1976 the Harald Neuwirth Konsort performed in the Large Broadcasting Hall of the Vienna Funkhaus, with Harry Pepl (guitar), Werner Pirchner (vibraphone), Wolfgang Wüst (double bass) and Fritz Ozmec (drums) and the guest Lee Konitz. The programme was broadcast on 25 September 2020 at 14:05.

    The members of the ensemble were guitarist Harry Pepl, vibraphonist Werner Pirchner, double bassist Wolfgang Wüst and drummer Fritz Ozmec

  3. 25 September 2020 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, Spielräume Nachtausgabe: „Der unvergessene Jazzgitarrist Harry Pepl“

    Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)

    Programme for his 75th birthday on 10 September 2020, broadcast on Friday, 25 September 2020, at 22:25 and repeated on 26 September 2020 at 00:05. Guests include the music producer Daniel Pepl, the drummer Wolfgang Reisinger and the pianist Anna Maurer, who is working on a solo piano album of Pepl’s compositions. According to the running order, recorded statements by Wolfgang Muthspiel and Guido Jesenzky on Harry Pepl as musician and as teacher were added. The music ranged from the Austrian Evergreens (1960) via Benny Goodman, the Jazzzwio, Air Mail, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava and the Kronos Quartet to the Fullmax releases of 2015 and 2020. Muthspiel requested “The Day We Know Paul Desmond Is Gone”, Jesenzky “Germ in A” (both Jazzzwio); Anna Maurer contributed her version of “Air, Love & Vitamins” (2020). Director: Daniela Fietzek, sound engineer: Georg Janser.

    His Austrian-American quartet Airmail was probably one of the best jazz groups of Austrian provenance.

  4. 5 June 2020 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, In Concert: „Harry Pepls „Hip Jargon“ plus Werner Pirchner anno 1975“

    Helmut Jasbar (Gestaltung)

    Programme with a concert recording from the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) radio archive: on 25 September 1975 Pepl played in the Large Broadcasting Hall of the Vienna Funkhaus with his trio Hip Jargon (Wayne Darling, double bass; Fritz Ozmec, drums); the guest was Werner Pirchner on vibraphone. The programme calls Hip Jargon the nucleus of the Jazz-Zwio. The programme features “Wirf an” and “Wohl oder übel” by Pirchner as well as “Pfifferling”, “Squirrel Dance”, “Down At The Ticky Toe” and an excerpt from “Radler” by Pepl and Pirchner, almost 78 minutes in all.

    The nucleus of the famous “Jazz-Zwio”: Hip Jargon

    The music has overwhelming impact, raw and direct, with a concentrated energy that makes the recording sound as if it had been made yesterday.

    The music has overwhelming punch, rough and direct and full of concentrated energy

  5. 13 February 2020 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, Spielräume: „Werner Pirchner, der Vibrafonist“ (Musik aus allen Richtungen zum 80. Geburtstag des Tiroler Kosmopoliten)

    Andreas Felber (Gestaltung)

    Programme for Werner Pirchner’s 80th birthday on 13 February 2020. It describes the vibraphonist’s path and explains how the Jazz-Zwio with Harry Pepl brought the connection with the young Austrian jazz scene and the international career; the focus is on Pirchner.

    Meanwhile, Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner also joined forces with the young Austrian jazz scene

  6. 26 October 2015 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, Spielräume Spezial: „Heimat bis Du großer...“ (Würdigung von Harry Pepl zum Nationalfeiertag)

    Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)

    Programme for the Austrian National Day, Monday, 26 October 2015, 5.10 pm, commemorating the guitarist and composer almost ten years after Pepl’s death. The title alludes to the line „Heimat bist du großer Söhne“ [“Homeland of great sons”] of the Austrian national anthem; the programme opens with “In this case it really is one of the sons” and calls Air Mail “probably one of the best jazz groups of Austrian origin”. Playlist: Air Mail with “Shifting People” and “The Halley’s Comet / Light Blue Blues”, “Salt and Pepl” with the ORF Big Band under Richard Österreicher, “Harry Pepl’s Blues” with Benny Goodman, “Against The Wind” live with the Jazzzwio, “Eastern Island Ears” with Dave Liebman and Wolfgang Reisinger, a part of “Anspannen, Überspannen, Abspannen” with STUDIO PERCUSSION graz, Peter Alexander’s “Sag’ mir quando, sag’ mir wann” (Pepl as studio guitarist) and finally “Air, Love & Vitamins” with Werner Pirchner and Jack DeJohnette.

    The tribute to an individualist.

    In this case it really is one of the sons.

  7. 14 February 2015 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, Die Lange Nacht des Werner Pirchner: „Die Lange Nacht des Werner Pirchner“

    Albert Hosp (Gestaltung)

    A “Lange Nacht” (long night) programme for the 75th birthday of the vibraphonist and composer Werner Pirchner. The programme mentions the duo with Harry Pepl at the Montreux Jazz Festival (renowned jazz festival in Switzerland) and thereby shows the connection between the two musicians; the focus is on Pirchner.

    in a duo with the guitarist Harry Pepl

  8. 2 June 2010 · Radio · DE

    Ö1, „Apropos Musik“ (Programmhinweis der Wiener Zeitung): „Vom schwarzen Wien der 60er Jahre“ (2)

    Irene Suchy

    On Wednesday, 2 June 2010, at 3.05 pm, Ö1 (ORF's cultural radio station) broadcasts the second part of Irene Suchy's series on Vienna in the 1960s: attempts to make jazz symphonic and fit for the concert hall, the search for a Viennese blues and early film music. The programme features music by Werner Pirchner, Erich Kleinschuster, Harry Pepl, Friedrich Gulda, Johannes Fehring and others.

  9. 13 March 2007 · Radio · DE

    Deutschlandfunk, Nachtradio (Playlist): „Milestones - Harry Pepl“ (Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte)

    Playlist of a late-night radio programme on 13 March 2007 at 01:05, with “Live in Montreux 81”, the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) album with Pirchner and DeJohnette and Air Mail’s “Light Blues”. It shows Pepl as an entry in a German series on classics of jazz history.