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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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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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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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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.