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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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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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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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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. 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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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.
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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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”.
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