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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005
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Work · 1982

Air, Love & Vitamins

Air, Love and Vitamines (AKM, ECM-Cover); Air, Love and Vitamins; Luft, Liebe und Vitamine

Pepl's best-known piece and a classic of Austrian jazz. It was first released in 1983 on ECM (Munich jazz label founded by Manfred Eicher) by the trio Pirchner/Pepl/DeJohnette.

Authors
Harry Pepl
Genre
jazz composition
Line-up
originally guitar, vibraphone, drums (without bass)
Publisher
Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
ISWC
T0010360527
AKM work number
947102
Sheet music
Lead sheet: Lead sheet in the estate (Dropbox /Harry Pepl/Noten/Jazz Tunes), plus a version by Wolfgang Muthspiel.
Archive ID
HP-W-0006

The title was meant, with a pinch of self-irony, to express something fundamentally positive: air, love and something more, vitamins as well. Pepl called the piece a sweet song with a simple melody that really calls for voice or saxophone with long notes. Wolfgang Muthspiel named an album after the piece in 2004; further recordings come from, among others, Christian Muthspiel (2007) and Franck Tortiller with Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (2020). In 1994 an unreleased pop version with English lyrics was made with Agnes Heginger; the melody also underlies the song “Luft, Liebe und Vitamine”.

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