Literature and research

Books

• Thomas Hochradner, Sarah Haslinger (Hg.) (2017): „Those were the days“. Salzburgs populäre Musikkulturen der 1950er und 1960er Jahre. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag 2017, Vienna. Online Google Books, Vorschau This study of popular music in Salzburg, Austria, documents the appearance of Pepl’s group Hip Jargon with Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, in June 1975 and quotes two Salzburg reviews: the Salzburger Volksblatt (25 June 1975) praised “a well-balanced mix of superbly played solos” and “free jazz for connoisseurs”, the Salzburger Tagblatt wrote of “top-class jazz” (translated from the German). Cite and export: „Those were the days“. Salzburgs populäre Musikkulturen der …
• Michael Kahr (2016): Jazz & the City. Jazz in Graz von 1965 bis 2015. Leykam 2016, 523 pages, ISBN 978-3-7011-0357-7; Neuausgabe als „City of Jazz. Jazz in Graz von 1965 to 2015“, Graz: Leykam 2019, ISBN 978-3-7011-0423-9, Graz. Online Inhaltsverzeichnis frei online (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek); Buch im Handel Monograph on the history of jazz in Graz from the FWF project “Jazz & the City” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. A chapter of its own is devoted to “Harald ‘Harry’ Pepl und seine Ensembles” (pp. 249 to 254), with further chapters on Heimo Steps and the jazz club M 59 (p. 418) and the cultural initiative gamsbART (p. 423). According to the table of contents; the book itself is not yet in the archive. Cite and export: Jazz & the City. Jazz in Graz von 1965 bis 2015
• Steve Lake, Paul Griffiths (Hg.) (2007): Horizons Touched. The Music of ECM. London: Granta Books 2007, p. 424, London. Online Google Books, Suchausschnitt The anniversary book of the renowned European jazz label ECM lists in its discography “Cracked Mirrors” (Pepl, Herbert Joos, Jon Christensen, recorded in February 1987) and the album by Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette. Cite and export: Horizons Touched. The Music of ECM
• Harald Goertz (2000): Music in Austria. From Its Early Beginnings to the Present Day. An Overview. Wien: Bundespressedienst 2000, p. 57, Vienna. Online Google Books, Suchausschnitt English-language history of music in Austria published by the Austrian Federal Press Service for readers abroad. It names Pepl among the soloists around the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Viennese jazz big band led by Mathias Rüegg, alongside Uli Scherer, Harry Sokal, Wolfgang Reisinger and Wolfgang Puschnig. It gives his year of birth wrongly as 1944; the correct date is 10 September 1945. Cite and export: Music in Austria. From Its Early Beginnings to the Present …
• Anita Awosusi (Hg.) (1997): Der Sinti-Jazz. Die Musik der Sinti und Roma, vol. 2, Schriftenreihe des Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrums Deutscher Sinti und Roma, vol. 6, Heidelberg 1997, p. 137, Heidelberg. Online Google Books, Suchausschnitt In its section on the guitarist Karl Ratzer, this German book on Sinti jazz counts Pepl among Austria’s most important guitar voices: “Alongside Harry Pepl and Wolfgang Muthspiel, a generation younger, Ratzer is probably the most important Austrian guitar voice” (translated from the German). Cite and export: Der Sinti-Jazz
• Jorge Lima Barreto (1995): Nova Música Viva. Fábrica de Letras 1995, p. 137. Online online im Internet Archive Portuguese book on new improvised music; names Pepl in a line of guitarists with Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Hans Reichel, Terje Rypdal and John Scofield. Cite and export: Nova Música Viva
• Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Günther Huesmann (1992): The Jazz Book. From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Lawrence Hill Books 1992; Neuausgabe „The Jazz Book. From Ragtime to the 21st Century“, 2009, Brooklyn. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive English edition of the “Jazzbuch”. In the chapter on the guitar Pepl is named as an Austrian in a line with John McLaughlin, John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell, and in the discography with “Volver” (1986). Documented in the 1992 and 2009 editions; the German edition has not been checked. Cite and export: The Jazz Book. From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond
• Norman C. Weinstein (1992): A Night in Tunisia. Imaginings of Africa in Jazz. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press 1992, ISBN 0-8108-2525-2, Metuchen. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive Study of images of Africa in jazz; the discography lists “African Godchild” from the ECM album with Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette. Cite and export: A Night in Tunisia. Imaginings of Africa in Jazz
• Gerhard Klußmeier (1989): Benny Goodman und Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main: Buchhandlung und Antiquariat Eisenbletter & Naumann 1989 (DNB: 1990), ISBN 3-927355-03-8, Frankfurt am Main. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive Covers Goodman’s concerts in Germany in 1980 with Don Haas, Harry Pepl, Peter Witte and the drummer Charly Antolini (spelled “Antonelli” in the book). In 1980 Pepl was offered a place in Goodman’s septet; the book reprints his own account, based on an interview with him. Cite and export: Benny Goodman und Deutschland
• D. Russell Connor (1988): Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press und Institute of Jazz Studies 1988, p. 299 to 301, ISBN 0-8108-2095-1, Metuchen. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive Bio-discography of Benny Goodman; lists Pepl (guitar) in the line-ups of the 1980 European concerts, including Berlin. Cite and export: Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy