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Monday, 20 June 2022

Wolfgang Reisinger has died

The Air Mail drummer died unexpectedly in June 2022.

Cover of Jazzlive no. 20 (Austrian jazz magazine), April 1985, with a portrait of the band: Harry Pepl (left), Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger. Reisinger, “der Reisl”, often came to make music with Pepl in Hernstein.
Air Mail on the cover of Jazzlive, April 1985Photo: Rainer A. Rygalyk

The drummer Wolfgang Reisinger died unexpectedly in June 2022. He played in the Vienna Art Orchestra, founded the group Part of Art and was a member of Air Mail with Harry Pepl, Wolfgang Puschnig and Mike Richmond; he is also the drummer on Pepl's “Schönberg Improvations” (1990). Daniel Pepl remembers many visits by “der Reisl” to the home studio in Hernstein.

mica, music austria, 20.06.2022