Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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1970s
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1970
Studio musician in Vienna
Vienna
Pepl left the cover band during a tour to become a studio musician and briefly studied at the jazz department of the Vienna Conservatory. There he met Peter Ponger; through Ernst Kugler he found his way into the ORF studio.
Life
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1971
ORF Big Band and studio work
Vienna
In the 1970s Pepl played in the ORF Big Band under Ernst Kugler, Karel Krautgartner and Richard Österreicher and worked as a studio musician for, among others, Wilfried, Reinhold Bilgeri and Peter Alexander. In 1974 he was, after Peter Paul Skrepek, the band's first guitarist.
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1974
Conception M
Vienna
Pepl played in Albert Mair's group Conception M with Christof Lauer, Ack van Rooyen and Aladar Pege. No recording was released.
Ensembles
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1975
The Jazzzwio begins with Werner Pirchner
Vienna
Pepl led the trio Hip Jargon and brought in the vibraphonist Werner Pirchner. At the first duo rehearsal, with “Stella by Starlight”, the Jazzzwio began, which lasted until 1985. The sources date the beginning between 1975 and 1978; Kohler's date is used here.
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1975
Harald Neuwirth Konsort and duo with Lee Konitz
Vienna
In the Konsort of the pianist Harald Neuwirth, Pepl played a duo with Lee Konitz at one concert, a formative moment for him; Hans Koller was listening.
Ensembles
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February 1975
Mumelter's Concertodrom
Innsbruck
The quintet of the violinist Martin Mumelter, with Max Engel, Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl and Kurt Neuhauser, premiered at the Großer Stadtsaal in Innsbruck and then toured the British Isles, including the Edinburgh Festival.
Ensembles
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25 September 1975
Hip Jargon with Werner Pirchner at the Vienna Funkhaus
Vienna
On Thursday, 25 September 1975, Hip Jargon plays with Pepl (guitar), Wayne Darling (double bass) and Fritz Ozmec (drums) in the Great Broadcasting Hall of the Funkhaus in Vienna, Austria; the guest is Werner Pirchner on vibraphone. The recording from the ORF radio archive is broadcast on 5 June 2020 in Ö1’s “In Concert”, which calls Hip Jargon “the nucleus of the famous ‘Jazz-Zwio’”.
Concerts
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1976
Teaching assignment at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Graz
The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz entrusted Pepl with the running of the jazz guitar training class. Heckel, the information sheet and the Kleine Zeitung give 1976 as the start; Kohler speaks of an offer in 1976 and acceptance in 1977.
Teaching
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1976
ORF Big Band: “Leave Me”
Vienna
The ORF Big Band under Richard Österreicher recorded the LP “Leave Me” with Pepl as a soloist, featuring his piece “Salt and Pepl”.
Recordings
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1977
Farewell to the studio world
Graz
Pepl ended his contract with the ORF Big Band, wanting to play only jazz from then on. Guido Jeszenszky began studying with him in Graz that year.
Life
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August 1977
Teaching post at the Graz University of Music
Graz
On 10 August 1977 the Burgenländische Freiheit reported that Pepl would leave the ORF Big Band and move to Graz, “where he is to take up a teaching post in the jazz department of the university of music”. The guitarist Olaf Weitzer was being discussed as his successor in the band. Pepl had last been heard with his jazz-rock group “Hedgehog” at the three-day festival in Kohfidisch.
Teaching
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1978
Trio Infernal and journey to New York
Vienna, New York
Around the end of the 1970s there was the Trio Infernal, with Adelhard Roidinger and Erich Bachträgl. With Peter Ponger, Pepl travelled to New York by ship, played sessions and met Marc Johnson.
Ensembles
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May 1979
Concert with Friedrich Gulda in Graz
Graz
For early May 1979 the Burgenländische Freiheit announced “a concert of superlatives” at the Münzgrabenheim in Graz: Friedrich Gulda on piano with the two former ORF Big Band musicians Wayne Darling (bass) and Harry Pepl (guitar).
Concerts
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July 1979
Recording of “Austria Drei”
Munich
The quartet Austria Drei, with Werner Pirchner, Adelhard Roidinger and Todd Canedy, recorded the album at FUN Studio in Munich; it was released on EGO in 1980. Herbert Joos painted the cover.
Recordings
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26 October 1979
ORF tapes of the Jazzzwio
Vienna
The ORF archive in Vienna holds three tapes of the Jazzzwio dated 26 October 1979, with “Gegenwind”, “Mahavischnigg” and “Big Paul”, presumably from the programme “Bourbon Street”.
Recordings
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16 November 1979 to 24 November 1979
Tour with the Vienna Art Orchestra
Austria
Pepl played on the tour for the debut album “Tango from Obango” (Steyr, Linz, Dornbirn, Feldkirch, Vienna, Graz). The album was recorded on 22 and 23 November 1979.
Concerts
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1 December 1979 to 2 December 1979