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Astrud Gilberto

1940 – † 2023

Partner from Pepl’s time in the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria’s public broadcaster) in the 1970s: according to Pepl’s own short biography of 1979, printed in the programme booklet of the festival in Saalfelden, Austria, he played concerts with “Gilberto”; the Czech jazz encyclopaedia “Encyklopedie jazzu” (Prague, 1987) lists Astrud Gilberto among Pepl’s partners in concert or on television, and Nikolaus Kohler (2006) describes the collaboration as taking place “as part of the big band”. Date, programme and recording have not yet been established.

Played with him