Chronology

1960s

1. 1966

   The Austrian Evergreens

   Europe

   In the second half of the 1960s Pepl was the full-time guitarist of the dance and beat combo The Austrian Evergreens, whom the Kleine Zeitung calls “Austrian Aces”. The band played hits, Beatles numbers and bossa nova and toured Europe; Pepl arranged for them.

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1970s

1. 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.

   Ensembles

2. 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

3. 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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4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

1980s

1. 1983

   Air Mail finds its line-up

   Vienna

   After rehearsals with the bassist Jean-Paul Celea, the line-up of Pepl, Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger emerged in autumn 1983. The band took its name from the bassist Richmond, who was flown in.

   Ensembles

1990s

1. 1995

   Home studio in Hernstein: the Lonely Single Swinger Band

   Hernstein

   From the mid-1990s Pepl recorded a large number of multitrack recordings in his home studio in the cellar in Hernstein, the “Bergwerk”, and catalogued and rated them. He played all the instruments himself and called the project “Lonely Single Swinger Band”; the earlier website gives 1996 as the start.

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2010s

1. 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.

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