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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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1994 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Aus dem Konzertsaal“ (live recording, in der Österreichischen Mediathek): „Aus dem Konzertsaal: Graz Meeting 1994 (2)“
Jörg-Martin Willnauer (presenting)
Jazz broadcast by Ö1, ORF’s cultural radio station, from the Graz Meeting 1994, featuring among others the Harry Pepl Quartet according to the catalogue of the Österreichische Mediathek (Austrian Mediathek), and presented by Jörg-Martin Willnauer.
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The recording is on compact cassette (shelf mark 6-69955) and can only be heard on site at the Mediathek in Vienna; the catalogue does not give the broadcast date. The quartet played at the Graz Meeting on Wednesday, 20 April 1994, at the Orpheum in Graz, Austria.
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6 December 2005 · Radio · DE
Ö1 Morgenjournal, 7 Uhr (laut Programmaussendung OTS0063 des ORF): „Nachruf Harry Pepl“ (Beitrag im Ö1-Morgenjournal)
Wolfgang Bilek
According to ORF’s programme release, the 7 am Ö1 Morgenjournal (news programme of ORF’s cultural radio station) on Tuesday, 6 December 2005, carried an obituary of Harry Pepl by Wolfgang Bilek. The wording has not been preserved.
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15 December 2005 · Radio · DE
Wiener Zeitung (p. 23, Medien: Radioprogramm Österreich 1): „Spielräume: Im Gegenwind. Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl“ (Ö1, 17.30 Uhr)
Giselher Smekal (Gestaltung)
Programme note: on Thursday, 15 December 2005, at 5.30 pm, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) broadcast “Im Gegenwind. Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl” (Against the wind. Memories of Harry Pepl) with Giselher Smekal in its “Spielräume” series.
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9 December 2006 · Radio · DE
Wiener Zeitung (p. 21, Programm: Radio Ö1, Samstag): „Die Österreich 1 Jazznacht“ mit Christian Bakonyi (Harry Pepl)
Christian Bakonyi (Gestaltung)
Programme note on the Ö1 Jazznacht (all-night jazz programme on ORF’s cultural radio station) with Christian Bakonyi, which from 11.05 pm presented Harry Pepl, about a year after his death, in largely unreleased recordings.
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The Wiener Zeitung also printed the same programme text on Thursday, 7 December 2006, so the broadcast date of Saturday, 9 December 2006, is not entirely certain.
the composer, guitarist and musical free spirit Harry Pepl
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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”.
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It shows Pepl as an entry in a German series on classics of jazz history.
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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.
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21 November 2013 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Schon gehört?“: „Schon gehört?“ (Kulturtipps vom 21. November 2013)
Cultural tips from the radio station Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel): the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz), a cooperation between the jazz department of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and gamsbART (Graz concert promoter), devotes an evening at the Dom im Berg in Graz, Austria, billed as “Super Sax”, to the saxophone, among others with the trio of Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch. On 22 November Salesny receives the Harry Pepl Prize, awarded this year for the fourth time.
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On 22 November this encouragement prize goes to the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny.
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20 November 2014 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Apropos Musik“ (Programmhinweis der Wiener Zeitung): „Die ORF-Bigband“
Klaus Wienerroither
On Thursday, 20 November 2014, at 3.05 pm, Ö1 (ORF's cultural radio station) broadcasts a programme on the ORF Big Band, which emerged around 1970 from the core of the Johannes Fehring Orchestra and existed until 1982. Besides functional music it produced high-quality orchestral jazz, with soloists such as Art Farmer and Harry Pepl.
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which could boast renowned soloists such as the American trumpeter Art Farmer or the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl
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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.
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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
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19 September 2015 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Die Ö1 Jazznacht“: „Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl“
Christian Bakonyi
Broadcast for the 70th birthday on Saturday, 19 September 2015, 23:03 to 24:00, with the studio guests Daniel Pepl, Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer.
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Also played is an archive find of the trio with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley from Tamsweg, dated 15 December 1988.
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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.
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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.
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3 December 2015 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume: „Spielräume“ vom 3. Dezember 2015 (Musik aus allen Richtungen, Harry Pepls Wiederkehr)
Andreas Felber (Gestaltung)
Programme of 3 December 2015, 17:30, on the occasion of Pepl’s 70th birthday and the tenth anniversary of his death: Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger perform Pepl’s music (5 December 2015, Porgy & Bess, Vienna jazz club).
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It also covers new CDs of Austrian production.
Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch play Harry Pepl
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14 July 2016 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „On Stage“ (Programmhinweis der Wiener Zeitung): Christian Muthspiels Werner-Pirchner-Hommage beim Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2015
Andreas Felber
On Thursday, 14 July 2016, at 7.30 pm, Ö1 (ORF's cultural radio station) broadcasts Christian Muthspiel's homage “Homesick” from the Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2015 with Franck Tortiller and Jerome Harris.
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Besides pieces by Werner Pirchner, compositions by his Jazz-Zwio partner Harry Pepl are heard.
compositions by his former Jazz-Zwio duo partner Harry Pepl were also heard
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3 September 2016 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Die Ö1 Jazznacht“ (Programmhinweis der Wiener Zeitung): Clemens Salesnys und Agnes Hegingers Harry-Pepl-Projekt bei den Inntönen 2016
Christian Bakonyi
The Ö1 Jazznacht on Saturday, 3 September 2016 (from 11.10 pm), broadcasts at 1.03 am the recording from the INNtöne on 14 May 2016: Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch playing live together with recordings by Harry Pepl, music he recorded as a one-man band in the last years of his life.
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27 March 2018 · Radio · DE
SRF 2 Kultur, Jazz & World aktuell: „Was für die Magengegend“
Roman Hošek (Editorial)
Programme on [SRF 2 Kultur](https://www.srf.ch), the cultural radio station of Swiss public broadcasting, on Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 20:00 to 21:00, repeated on Friday, 30 March 2018. Alongside Hugh Coltman, Sons of Kemet and Shake Stew it presents a portrait of the Austrian saxophonist [Clemens Salesny](person:clemens-salesny). According to the playlist it also features Harry Pepl's “[Single Swing](werk:single-swing)” (Fullmax Recordings).
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13 September 2019 · Radio · DE
Ö1, In Concert: „Harry Sokal, Harry Pepl, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark, Daniel Humair“ (Österreichisch-französisches Gipfeltreffen 1984 in Wien)
Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)
Programme with an unreleased concert recording from the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) archive: in 1984 the saxophonist Harry Sokal played in Vienna with the guitarist Harry Pepl, the bassist Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark and the drummer Daniel Humair.
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The programme was broadcast on 13 September 2019 at 14:05.
the Viennese guitar master Harry Pepl
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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.
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Meanwhile, Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner also joined forces with the young Austrian jazz scene
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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.
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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.
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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.
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His Austrian-American quartet Airmail was probably one of the best jazz groups of Austrian provenance.
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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.
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The members of the ensemble were guitarist Harry Pepl, vibraphonist Werner Pirchner, double bassist Wolfgang Wüst and drummer Fritz Ozmec
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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.
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at a guitar evening at which Biréli Lagrène, Philip Catherine and (in a duo with Werner Pirchner) Harry Pepl also performed
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10 December 2021 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume Nachtausgabe (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Jazzorchestraler Rundfunk: Erinnerungen an die ORF Big Band“
Ines Reiger und Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)
Programme marking 50 years of the ORF Big Band on Friday, 10 December 2021, continued after midnight.
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The radio big band (ORF: Austria’s public broadcaster), which grew out of the Johannes Fehring Orchestra in October 1971, existed until 1982; the text names Pepl alongside Fritz Pauer and Erich Bachträgl among its important Austrian musicians. The music includes recordings with Carl Drewo, Slide Hampton and Dexter Gordon.
Important Austrian jazz musicians such as the pianist Fritz Pauer, the guitarist Harry Pepl or the drummer Erich Bachträgl complemented this international quality congenially.
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10 June 2022 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Nachruf auf Wolfgang Reisinger“
Andreas Felber (Gestaltung)
Programme on the death of the drummer Wolfgang Reisinger, who died unexpectedly in Vienna on Wednesday, 8 June 2022. Felber calls him Austria’s most internationally renowned jazz drummer and recalls his ensembles of the 1980s, among them Air Mail with Harry Pepl and Wolfgang Puschnig, the Vienna Art Orchestra and his work in France.
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23 July 2022 · Radio · DE
Ö1 (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „„Keks“ revisited“
Feature on the trombonist Erich Kleinschuster and the radio recordings of his sextet from 1968 to 1971, which the jazz historian Klaus Schulz released on two double CDs in 2005 and 2007. The Erich Kleinschuster Sextet, founded in 1966, is described as the flagship of Austrian jazz; its changing line-up included Karl Drewo, Fritz Pauer, Harry Pepl, Art Farmer, Benny Bailey and Jimmy Woode.
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An all-star ensemble that served as the flagship of Austrian jazz for roughly the next 15 years
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11 April 2023 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume (Sendungsseite und Sendung): „Peter Havlicek: Schrammelmusik und „die“ Jazz“
Programme for the 60th birthday of the guitarist and contraguitar player Peter Havlicek on the Tuesday after Easter.
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According to the programme text and presentation, his roots lie in jazz: he studied jazz guitar in Graz with Harry Pepl, whom he names as his teacher, and intended to go to Paris as a jazz musician, but found his way to the Viennese contraguitar.
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15 December 2023 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Jazztime (RadioKulturhaus), angekündigt im ORF Teletext, p. 413: „Jazztime: Stefan Heckel“
Johann Kneihs (Gespräch)
Live broadcast from the RadioCafe of the Vienna RadioKulturhaus on Friday, 15 December 2023, from 7.30 pm on Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station).
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Stefan Heckel presents his solo piano album, plays with the cellist Erich Oskar Huetter and, in conversation with Johann Kneihs, talks about his research into Pepl’s method of instant composing. Documented by the announcement in ORF Teletext from 27 November to 13 December 2023.
In conversation with Johann Kneihs, Heckel talks about his research into the “instant composing” method of the great jazz guitarist Harry Pepl
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6 September 2025 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „Die Ö1 Jazznacht“: „Zum 80. Geburtstag von Gitarrist Harry Pepl“
Christian Bakonyi
Broadcast on Saturday, 6 September 2025, 23:03 to 24:00, with the guests Daniel Pepl, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer.
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The accompanying article mentions John Scofield and the MIDI guitar and points to the concert at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) on 28 September 2025.
In the 1980s Harry Pepl was one of the most sought-after guitarists in Europe.
The incredible improvisations and rapid cascades of sound, delivered in the most exciting way at the highest technical level, thrilled not only the audience in Montreux in 1981
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6 November 2025 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Kammerjazzige Duoklänge“
Andreas Felber (Gestaltung)
Programme “Music from all directions” with new releases by Sinfonia de Carnaval and by the duo of Martin Gasselsberger (piano) and Tim Collins (vibraphone).
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On their album “Songs From The Treehouse” the two play, alongside their own compositions, Pepl’s “Air, Love & Vitamins”, which Felber calls Pepl’s lyrical hit. The page lists the duo’s concerts from January to February 2026.
Harry Pepl’s lyrical hit “Air, Love and Vitamines”
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26 November 2025 · Radio · DE
Ö1, „On stage Spezial“: Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025, live aus dem Casino Velden
Andreas Felber
Live broadcast of the award ceremony on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 19:30. The playlist includes “Hernstein Blues” from the album “Live” (Pepl and Salesny, 8:10).
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24 June 2026 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Radiosession (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „„Jazz & the City (... and us)“: Michael Kahr und Martin Harms“
Klaus Wienerroither (Interview)
Programme in the relaunched “Ö1 Radiosession” on Wednesday, 24 June 2026, with an interview and a recording session from Studio 2 of the Vienna RadioKulturhaus.
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The duo of the pianist Michael Kahr and the saxophonist Martin Harms plays repertoire linked to important figures of jazz in Vienna, expressly including the guitarist Harry Pepl, together with works by Anton Karas, Fritz Kreisler and Rudolf Sieczynski.
Repertoire that engages with important figures of jazz in Vienna, such as the guitarist Harry Pepl