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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”.
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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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16 March 1985 · Review
Billboard (US-Musikfachzeitschrift mit den Branchen-Charts, gegründet 1894): Album Reviews, Jazz-Fusion: „Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Jack DeJohnette“ (Recommended)
In its issue of Saturday, 16 March 1985 (vol. 97, no. 11), Billboard, the US music trade magazine founded in 1894 and home of the industry’s leading charts, reviews the ECM album (ECM 1237, via PolyGram Special Imports) on p. 66 in its Album Reviews under Jazz-Fusion and rates it “Recommended”, Billboard’s label for new releases the editors expect to chart in their format and for albums of superior quality. The unsigned capsule review calls Pirchner a mallet stylist, Pepl an acoustic guitarist and DeJohnette a timemaster, and describes a delicate, mood-rich chamber jazz record that recalls the strongest early productions in this vein by Manfred Eicher, founder and producer of ECM. At the same time, DownBeat presented the album on a full page in its April 1985 issue; this has its own entry in the press archive.
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a delicate chamber jazz set rich in moods; recalls producer Eicher’s strongest early forays into this stream
Unsigned capsule review in the Album Reviews under Jazz-Fusion, rated “Recommended”, of the ECM album by Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette; Manfred Eicher is the founder and producer of ECM
1983 date teaming mallet stylist Pirchner, acoustic guitarist Pepl and timemaster DeJohnette
Unsigned capsule review in the Album Reviews under Jazz-Fusion, rated “Recommended”, of the ECM album by Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette
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April 1985 · Other
DownBeat (US-Jazzzeitschrift, gegründet 1934): „European ECM“: Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette (ganzseitige Vorstellung, Heft April 1985, Vol. 52, Nr. 4)
DownBeat, the leading US jazz magazine (founded in Chicago in 1934), presented the ECM album by Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette (ECM 1237) on a full page, p. 11, of its April 1985 issue, with a picture of the cover: “Austrians Pirchner and Pepl join with drummer Jack DeJohnette to create a highly original and accessible trio sound.” It highlights the electronic effects of Pepl’s Ovation guitar blending with Pirchner’s vibraphone and marimba. The album was presented in the “European ECM” series of the New York import distributor PolyGram Special Imports, together with four other albums from the renowned European jazz label ECM. According to the masthead, the issue went on sale on Friday, 15 March 1985.
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Austrians Pirchner and Pepl join with drummer Jack DeJohnette to create a highly original and accessible trio sound.
From the full-page presentation of the ECM album in DownBeat, April 1985, in the “European ECM” series of the US distributor PolyGram Special Imports
PolyGram Special Imports, European ECM
The electronic effects of Pepl’s ovation guitar blend with Pirchner’s tenor vibes and marimba to form a rich overlay
From the full-page presentation of the ECM album in DownBeat, April 1985, in the “European ECM” series of the US distributor PolyGram Special Imports
PolyGram Special Imports, European ECM
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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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July 1986 · Review · FR
Jazz Hot, no. 432: „Du jazz sous les pommiers“
Alain Guerrini
Festival report by Alain Guerrini in the July/August issue of Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, on the 5th Jazz sous les pommiers in Coutances (Normandy, France) from 3 to 10 May 1986. On the closing night, at the theatre, Guerrini discovered Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig, Harry Pepl, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger as “un groupe prodigieux”, a prodigious group: from the Berlin ballad to hard rock, their music brought almost a century of music history back to life. As the most telling piece he names “Halley Comet”, probably Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”. The Eddy Louiss Big Band closed the evening. Jazz Hot names Puschnig as the band's leader; according to Daniel Pepl, Air Mail had no leader, and the statement is an error in the report. Guerrini gives 10 p.m. as the starting time, the festival archive 9 p.m.
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There I discovered a prodigious group: Air Mail
Alain Guerrini in Jazz Hot on the closing night of the Jazz sous les pommiers festival in Coutances, France, on Saturday, 10 May 1986, according to the festival programme, Air Mail's first concert in France
“Halley Comet” is the most telling piece of this cosmic quartet.
Alain Guerrini on Air Mail's concert in Coutances, France, in May 1986; “Halley Comet” is probably Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”, later the title track of Air Mail's album “Light Blues” (1988)
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July 1986 · Review · FR
Jazz Hot, no. 432: „Amiens : le temps du jazz“
Franck Bergerot
Festival report by Franck Bergerot in the July/August issue of Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, on the “Le temps du jazz” festival in Amiens (France) from 13 to 24 May 1986, at which the festival also launched its record label, Label Bleu.
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Under the heading “Coup de chaleur” (roughly: a heatwave) he describes Air Mail's concert: fired up by Wolfgang Puschnig, driven by Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger, shaken up by an utterly unexpected Harry Pepl. To Bergerot it sounded as if Pepl wanted to pay tribute to the guitarist Joseph Dejean, who had died ten years earlier; in his playing he found again the thread of a history of the guitar that he had thought lost. The music was free, fresh, uninhibited and full of energy, and he had not enjoyed himself so much in a long time. The report gives no date for the concert. Thirty-five years later Bergerot paid tribute to Pepl again in Jazz Magazine, as “the late Austrian jazz guitarist”.
Air Mail, fired up by Wolfgang Puschnig, driven by the rhythm section of Mike Richmond / Wolfgang Reisinger and shaken up by an utterly unexpected Harry Pepl.
Franck Bergerot in Jazz Hot on Air Mail's concert at the “Le temps du jazz” festival in Amiens, France, in May 1986, under the heading “Coup de chaleur” (roughly: a heatwave)
There I found again the thread of a history of the guitar that I feared I had lost for good.
Franck Bergerot on Pepl's guitar playing at Air Mail's concert in Amiens, France, in May 1986; just before, he writes that had Pepl wanted to pay tribute to the guitarist Joseph Dejean, who had died ten years earlier, he could not have gone about it any differently
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April 1988 · Review
Wire Magazine (heute The Wire), no. 50: Kritik zu „Volver“ (ECM 1343) in der Rubrik „Soundcheck“, Abschnitt „Fast Licks“
Mike Fish
Short review in the 50th issue of the British music magazine Wire (now The Wire), in the “Soundcheck” section under “Fast Licks”.
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Mike Fish reviews “Volver”, the album by the quintet of Enrico Rava (trumpet) and Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon) on ECM, the renowned European jazz label, with Harry Pepl (guitar), Furio Di Castri (bass) and Bruce Ditmas (drums). Saluzzi draws real lyricism from the bandoneon; together with Rava’s elegant trumpet and Pepl’s reverberant guitar, the result is music full of empathy and enthusiasm, and in “Minguito” the band plays very hot.
when matched with the grandee elegance of Rava’s style, and Pepl’s reverberant guitar, the music that results has a redemptive empathy and enthusiasm
Sometimes, as in “Minguito”, they blow very hot indeed.
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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.
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Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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27 August 1988 · Other
Music Week (British music trade magazine): „New Albums“ (Neuerscheinungen vom 30. August bis 2. September 1988)
The new-release list of the British music trade magazine includes “Cracked Mirrors” by Harry Pepl, Herbert Joos (printed “Joss”) and Jon Christensen for the week beginning Tuesday, 30 August 1988, as a jazz album on ECM/New Note, LP ECM 1356, CD 833 472-2. It is a trade listing of the British release, not a review.
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PEPL, Harry/Herbert JOSS/Jón CHRISTENSEN CRACKED MIRRORS ECM/New Note ECM 1356/8334722"CD"
Entry in the “New Albums” list of the British music trade magazine Music Week for the week of 30 August to 2 September 1988: British release of “Cracked Mirrors” on ECM/New Note, LP ECM 1356, CD 833 472-2. “JOSS” and “Jón” as printed, meaning Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen; a listing, not a review
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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.
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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.
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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”).
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Listed in the Jazz Index of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; the archive does not hold the text.
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22 September 2008 · Review
All About Jazz (US-Jazzmagazin im Internet, gegründet 1995): „Wolfgang Schalk: Wanted“
Mark F. Turner
Review of the album “Wanted” (Frame Up Music, 2008) by the guitarist Wolfgang Schalk from Styria, Austria, in All About Jazz, the US online jazz magazine founded in 1995, with 4 out of 5 stars.
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Schalk recorded the album in Los Angeles, USA, with Geoffrey Keezer (piano), Dave Carpenter (bass) and Marvin “Smitty” Smith (drums). Mark F. Turner singles out the moving ballad “And Harry Said Goodbye”, which Schalk dedicated to Harry Pepl; he calls Pepl a European guitar master and one of Schalk’s influences. Schalk’s tone and phrasing on this piece are delicate and warm.
There’s also moving balladry as heard on the emotive “And Harry Said Goodbye,” dedicated to another Schalk influence, European guitar master, Harry Pepl.
From the review of Wolfgang Schalk’s album “Wanted” (2008); the guitarist from Styria, Austria, dedicated the ballad to Harry Pepl, who had died in 2005
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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.
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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).
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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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4 December 2009 · Other
Jazzrytmit (finnische Jazzzeitschrift, online): „Hans Koller Jazz Prize Winners 2009“
Harald Justin
English-language announcement of the Hans Koller Prizes 2009 (Austrian jazz awards named after the saxophonist Hans Koller, funded among others by the City of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture) on the website of the Finnish jazz magazine Jazzrytmit. The European Jazz Prize 2009 went to the Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava; Harald Justin’s tribute names, among Rava’s many band projects, those with Harry Pepl first, ahead of Dino Saluzzi, Ray Anderson, Albert Mangelsdorff and Lee Konitz. Two other winners come from Pepl’s circle: Wolfgang Reisinger, drummer of Air Mail, as Musician of the Year, and Clemens Salesny, who since 2015 has shaped the posthumous projects built on Pepl’s recorded tracks, as Newcomer of the Year. The awards ceremony was announced for Saturday, 27 March 2010, at the Vienna jazz club Porgy & Bess.
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has undertaken a host of band projects with Harry Pepl, Dino Saluzzi, Ray Anderson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Lee Konitz
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November 2012 · Report · IT
Jazzit, no. 73: „Sketches of Rava“, Kapitel „Tra ECM e Soul Note“, Abschnitt „Volver“
Luciano Vanni
Cover story “Sketches of Rava” in the Italian jazz magazine Jazzit on the trumpeter Enrico Rava, written by Luciano Vanni, the magazine’s director according to the masthead.
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In the chapter on the years 1975 to 1991, the section “Volver” tells how in October 1986, after five years, Rava recorded again for ECM, the renowned European jazz label, as co-leader alongside the Argentine bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi. Vanni names Furio Di Castri (double bass), Bruce Ditmas (drums) and Harry Pepl (guitar) as the members of the quintet; the album was released two years later under the title “Volver”.
a quintet featuring Furio Di Castri on double bass, Bruce Ditmas on drums and Harry Pepl on guitar
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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.
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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.
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18 December 2017 · Review
Guitar Moderne (Online): „Harry Pepl: The One That Almost Got Away“
guitar moderne
Short piece in the American online magazine for adventurous guitarists.
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The author discovered Pepl in 1986 on the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) album “Volver” by Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi: his sound recalled Metheny, but with a harder attack and a freer sensibility. He recommends “Cracked Mirrors”, which still sounds fresh today.
His chorused sound and fluidity were reminiscent of Metheny, but his attack was harder and his sensibility was decidedly more “out.”
Check out “Cracked Mirror” to hear how his playing in 1988 sounds fresh even today.
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8 June 2020 · Report · FR
Jazz Magazine (online): „Franck Tortiller / Misja Fitzgerald-Michel, disque imminent“
Xavier Prévost
In Jazz Magazine, the French jazz magazine, Xavier Prévost announces the duo album “Les heures propices” by the vibraphonist Franck Tortiller and the guitarist Misja Fitzgerald-Michel, released on Friday, 19 June 2020, and presents two videos; one of them, with a composition by Harry Pepl, recalls Tortiller's long spell in the Vienna Art Orchestra.
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And also a reminder of the vibraphonist’s long spell in the Vienna Art Orchestra, with a composition by Harry Pepl
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3 October 2021 · Review · FR
CultureJazz: „13 arches... en jazz, ça porte bonheur ?“
Thierry Giard
Festival report by Thierry Giard (photos Christian Ducasse) in CultureJazz (French jazz magazine) on “Les Arches en Jazz” 2021. At the concert by Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel on Saturday, 25 September 2021, at noon in the church of Notre-Dame in Port-Bail-sur-Mer, the programme included compositions by Harry Pepl, Jim Pepper, David Crosby and Thelonious Monk alongside their own pieces. Giard had already heard the duo on 31 July 2021 in Rambaud (Hautes-Alpes).
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On the menu that lunchtime were original compositions but also pieces by the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl, the Native American saxophonist Jim Pepper, David Crosby and Thelonious Monk.
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4 October 2021 · Review · FR
Citizen Jazz: „Les Arches en jazz, une première“
Marie Boisnel
Report by Marie Boisnel in Citizen Jazz (French jazz magazine) on the first “Les Arches en Jazz” festival in Port-Bail-sur-Mer (Cotentin, Normandy, France).
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At the midday concert in the church of Notre-Dame, the duo Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald Michel played “Air, Love and Vitamins”, Pepl’s “gentle ballad” written for the same duo of guitar and vibraphone with Werner Pirchner.
Then the gentle ballad by the Austrian guitarist and composer Harry Pepl, written for the same duo with Werner Pirchner, guitar and vibraphone, “Air, love and vitamins”, plunges us into a languorous meditation.
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9 November 2021 · Review · FR
Jazz Magazine (online): „Nevers assis le matin, debout le soir“
Franck Bergerot
Festival report by Franck Bergerot in Jazz Magazine, the French jazz magazine, from the D'Jazz Nevers festival (Burgundy, France).
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The duo of Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (guitar) played its programme “Les heures propices”, songs by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, at noon on a Monday, probably on 8 November 2021. It included a piece by Harry Pepl, whom Bergerot honours as “the late Austrian jazz guitarist” who knew that melodic freshness and harmonic candour.
a borrowing from the late Austrian jazz guitarist Harry Pepl (who knew that melodic freshness, that harmonic candour and its disarming anachronisms)
The French jazz critic Franck Bergerot on a piece by Pepl in “Les heures propices”, the programme of the duo Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (songs by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s), at the D'Jazz Nevers festival in Nevers, France, in 2021
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26 October 2026 · Report · FR
Jazz Magazine (online): „Harry Pepl (1945-2005) : un site trilingue sur la carrière du grand guitariste autrichien“ new
Xavier Prévost
Report by Xavier Prévost in Jazz Magazine, the French jazz magazine (Actualité section), on Monday, 26 October 2026: on the initiative of Harry Pepl’s son Daniel, a trilingual archive of Pepl’s career, in German, English and French, has been online since that day. Prévost recalls that Pepl was heard in France with the French saxophonist and clarinettist Michel Portal, the American drummer Jack DeJohnette and the Swiss drummer Daniel Humair, and that French musicians still play his compositions today. He calls the archive a veritable mine of information on his life, career, compositions and extensive discography, with an inventory of radio and television programmes and of press articles in which Pepl appears. The report shows a photograph of Pepl and the covers of “N.Y.C. Impressure”, “Pirchner Pepl DeJohnette”, and Michel Portal’s “Men’s Land” and “Turbulence”.
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It is a veritable mine of information on this great soloist, who made himself heard throughout Europe and in the United States as well
We heard him in France with Michel Portal, Jack DeJohnette, Daniel Humair