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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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1981 · Portrait · DE
Freibord (no. 23, 1981, p. 22 to 24): „Austria 3“ new
Fritz Hübner
Feature by Fritz Hübner on Austria Drei (“Austria 3” in the title), the quartet led by Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner, in the Viennese magazine Freibord. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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October 1981 · Other · DE
Sounds (music magazine, Hamburg): „Jazz Fest 81 Berlin“ (Anzeige der Berliner Festspiele, Heft 10/1981, S. 64)
In issue 10 (October 1981) of Sounds, the Hamburg music magazine (1966 to 1983, at first focused on free jazz), the Berliner Festspiele announce the Jazz Fest Berlin of 5 to 8 November 1981 in an advertisement on p. 64. For the Metropol they list “Pirchner-Pepl Jazzzwio/ Defunkt” on Friday, 6 November, at 11 pm; on the other evenings Volker Kriegel, the John Scofield Trio, Michael Gregory Jackson and James “Blood” Ulmer play there. It is an announcement, not a concert report.
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1985 · Portrait · DE
Sterz, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kulturpolitik (Graz), no. 32: „Der Riese aus dem Fuchsloch. Eine Anbiederung an Werner Pirchner, hingehudelt“
Heimo Steps
Portrait of Werner Pirchner by Heimo Steps, founder of gamsbART (Graz concert promoter), in the Graz magazine “Sterz”. Steps calls Harry Pepl Pirchner’s “musical alter ego”, quotes Le Monde (“a giant of improvisation”), praises the Jazzzwio’s Montreux record and “Air, Love & Vitamins”, and reports that Steve Swallow toured Europe with Pirchner and Pepl in the summer of 1984. He recalls a night after a concert at the Graz jazz club M 59 around 1977, when he philosophised with the two in the empty hall until dawn. Online on the website of the Edition Werner Pirchner.
Harry Pepl: the giant from Hernstein in Lower Austria, “a giant of improvisation” (Le Monde), W.P.’s musical alter ego.
The Pirchner-Pepl JazzZwio has long had a permanent place in the apocryphal pantheon of music.
“Live in Montreux”, a hammer for heart and brain, if you let heart and brain be the anvil.
Heimo Steps in 1985 in Sterz, a literary magazine from Graz, on the Jazzzwio album “Live in Montreux”; a play on hammer and anvil
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April 1985 · Review · DE
Jazz Podium (vol. 34, no. 4, April 1985, p. 27): „Hang zur Poesie“ (Air Mail) new
Robert Urmann
Concert review by Robert Urmann in the German jazz magazine Jazz Podium on Air Mail with Harry Pepl, Wolfgang Puschnig, Wolfgang Reisinger and Mike Richmond. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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June 1988 · Review · DE
Jazz Podium (vol. 37, no. 6, June 1988, p. 48): „Joos-Pepl-Christensen“ new
Robert Urmann
Concert review by Robert Urmann in the German jazz magazine Jazz Podium on the trio with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen, whose album “Cracked Mirrors” appeared on ECM, the renowned European jazz label, in the same year. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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December 1992 · Report · DE
Jazzlive (vol. 10, no. 99/1992): Titelbild Harry Pepl; „Soundknitting. Die farbenfrohen Klangmuster der New Yorker Knitting Factory“
Hannes Schweiger (article); Rainer Rygalyk (cover photo)
The Viennese jazz magazine shows Harry Pepl on its cover, photographed by the publisher Rainer Rygalyk. In the issue, Hannes Schweiger describes the history and programme of the New York club Knitting Factory (New York music club for jazz and the avant-garde) and reports that in summer 1992 Pepl played there for an evening with his quartet (Klaus Stötter, Paul Nowinski, JoJo Mayer). Pepl describes how the pace of New York changed the way he plays.
I noticed myself that I play completely differently there than at home.
On his performance at the Knitting Factory, New York’s avant-garde club, in summer 1992
Harry Pepl
The ambience of the club is rather plain. Playing there was really an experience.
On the Knitting Factory, New York’s avant-garde club, where he played in summer 1992
Harry Pepl
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November 2001 · Portrait · DE
Jazz Zeit (no. 24, November 2001, p. 7): „Harry Pepl. Air Mail und der Blues des Harry Pepl“ new
Andreas Felber
Feature with interview by Andreas Felber in the Austrian jazz magazine Jazz Zeit. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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November 2002 · Portrait · DE
Jazz Zeit (no. 33, November 2002, p. 31): „Duo-Interpretationen. Pepl/Pirchner, Muthspiel & Muthspiel“ new
Thomas Hein
Feature with interview by Thomas Hein in the Austrian jazz magazine Jazz Zeit on the Pepl/Pirchner duo and the duo of the brothers Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel, who played the music of Pirchner and Pepl in 2002. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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2006 · Report · DE
Swinging Hamburg Journal (vol. 5, no. 17, 2006, p. 28 to 29): „Erlebnisse mit dem ‚King of Swing‘ (2). Harry Pepl: Der totale Wahnsinn – die große Swingerei“ new
Harry Pepl
Second part of a series of recollections of Benny Goodman in the Hamburg magazine Swinging Hamburg Journal; according to the Jazz Index, this part is by Harry Pepl himself. Published in 2006, after his death; where the text comes from is not known. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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2006 · Obituary · DE
Concerto (music magazine), February/March 2006, p. 32: „Harry Pepl (1945–2005)“ new
Martin Schuster
Obituary by Martin Schuster in the Austrian music magazine Concerto; Schuster had interviewed Pepl for the same magazine in 1998 (“Man könnte Klavierspielen müssen”, “One would have to be able to play the piano”). Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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2009 · Portrait · DE
Jazz Zeit (no. 76, January/February 2009, p. 32 to 33): „Werner Pirchner & Harry Pepl. Der Zeit voraus“ new
Otmar Klammer
Feature by Otmar Klammer in the Austrian jazz magazine Jazz Zeit on the Jazzzwio’s double release “Live In Concerts” (DVD and CD); according to the subtitle, also on why Austrian jazz musicians are rediscovering the music of Pirchner and Pepl. Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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24 February 2009 · Review · DE
KULTUR, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft (Dornbirn): „JazzZwio: Live in Concerts“ (CD-Tipp)
Peter Füssl
CD recommendation by Peter Füssl in KULTUR, a cultural magazine from Vorarlberg, Austria, for the CD/DVD “Live in Concerts” (Universal, 2009). Füssl recalls the legendary JazzZwio of Pepl and Werner Pirchner between 1977 and 1985 and describes the contents: 43 minutes from the 15th Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in 1981 and excerpts from concerts at the Szene Wien in Vienna (1983) and the Konservatoriumssaal in Innsbruck, Austria (1984), with pieces such as “The Day We Know Paul Desmond is Gone”, “Against The Wind”, “Hosent’Raga” and “Air Love And Vitamins”. He calls the two “absolute individualists” whose interplay adds up to far more than the sum of its parts, notes that so far mainly the Muthspiel brothers (the Austrian jazz musicians Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel) have kept their memory alive, and hopes the recordings will bring the Jazzzwio wider recognition, above all among younger musicians.
Great moments of brilliantly offbeat music and gnarled humour
the playful wit of these two strong characters, one Viennese and one Tyrolean to the core, still sounds fresh as morning dew more than 25 years after the recordings were made
On the CD/DVD “Live in Concerts” (2009) with Jazzzwio concerts from 1981 to 1984; Pepl was Viennese, Werner Pirchner Tyrolean, and each brought his own regionally coloured humour into the music
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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. 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.