Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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2010
Harry Pepl Prize for Stefan Heckel
Graz
At the Austrian Soundcheck run by the promoter gamsbART in Graz, Austria, the Styrian pianist and accordionist Stefan Heckel receives the Harry Pepl Prize. In 2024 Heckel completed a dissertation on Pepl's late work at the mdw in Vienna.
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22 November 2013
Harry Pepl Prize for Clemens Salesny
Graz
On Friday 22 November 2013 the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny receives the Harry Pepl Prize at the Austrian Soundcheck in Graz, Austria; according to Ö1 and mica it is already the fourth presentation. The evening at the Dom im Berg is billed as “Super Sax”; Salesny plays there in a trio with Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch. In 2015 he records with both of them and Agnes Heginger the double CD for the tenth anniversary of Pepl's death, playing along to his original tracks.
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2014
“Olymp” on “Schnitzelbeat Volume 1”
Pepl's composition “Olymp” from 1964 was reissued on the compilation of Austrian rock ’n’ roll and beat rarities.
Recordings
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19 September 2015
Ö1 Jazznacht “Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl”
Vienna
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Christian Bakonyi presented the Ö1 Jazznacht on Saturday 19 September 2015, with Daniel Pepl, Agnes Heginger and Clemens Salesny in the studio. An archive find of the trio with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley from Tamsweg was also played.
Media
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November 2015
Harry Pepl Prize for Viola Falb
Graz
At the opening of the Austrian Soundcheck in Graz, Austria, the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize, the first woman to do so. The Falter reports the award on 18 November 2015 and names prize money of 5,000 euros; mica and Wikipedia date the prize to 2016. No later presentation is documented; Stefan Heckel dates the series up to 2015.
Honours
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5 December 2015
Double CD for the 10th anniversary of his death
Vienna
On the initiative of Daniel Pepl, the double CD “Harry Pepl & Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger” was released on Fullmax Recordings: Pepl's home-studio tracks, supplemented by live-recorded instruments. It was presented on Saturday 5 December 2015 at the Porgy & Bess (for the 10th anniversary of his death, in the year of his 70th birthday).
Estate
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2016
“The Balsam Project” on “Faces And Stories”
On Wolfgang Puschnig's compilation, the duo with Pepl from the 1988 album “Pieces Of The Dream” was reissued.
Recordings
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14 May 2016
INNtöne Jazz Festival 2016
Diersbach
Harry Pepl (tape) with Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger played on Saturday 14 May 2016 at the INNtöne Jazz Festival in Diersbach.
Concerts
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27 October 2017
Gerald Gradwohl Group pays tribute to Pepl in Passau
Passau
The Passauer Neue Presse reported on Friday 27 October 2017 that the Gerald Gradwohl Group pays tribute to the late Viennese jazz guitarist, whom Gradwohl admires and from whom he has learned.
Honours
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2018
New formation “Harry Pepl & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band”
Austria
Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer, with Andi Schreiber on violin and Valentin Duit on drums, played a series of concerts with Pepl's material. Pepl's tracks came from their own stage amplifiers; Markus Wallner looked after the sound.
Ensembles
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16 November 2018
Single Swinger Band at the Jazzit Salzburg
Salzburg
Under the title “A Tribute To Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band”, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andi Schreiber and Valentin Duit play with Pepl’s tracks on Friday, 16 November 2018, at the Jazzit in Salzburg, Austria; Markus Wallner is on sound.
Concerts
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22 February 2019
Digital EP “Lonely Single Swinger Band (Art of Trio, Vol. 1)”
Vienna
The first release from the musical estate on Fullmax Recordings since 2015: four newly mixed pieces that Pepl recorded alone in his home studio.
Estate
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25 October 2019 to 26 June 2021
Live recordings for the album “Live”
Vienna, Villach
The band recorded concerts at the Porgy & Bess (25 October 2019, July 2020), at the Blue Tomato (24 October 2020) and at the Bambergsaal Villach (26 June 2021). In August 2020 Franz Hautzinger played the trumpet on “Kunst II” in his home studio in France.
Recordings
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25 October 2019
Single Swinger Band at the Porgy & Bess
Porgy & Bess, Vienna
Concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band at the Porgy & Bess; recordings from it were released in 2025 on the album “Live”.
Concerts