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What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source. The originals are protected by copyright and kept in the archive; we provide them to researchers and the press on request.
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3 November 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Festival de Jazz de Paris : Concert du Dino Saluzzi quintet“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Monday, 3 November 1986, at the Festival de Jazz de Paris: the quintet of Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon) and Enrico Rava (trumpet) with Harry Pepl (guitar), Furio Di Castri (double bass) and Bruce Ditmas (drums), 1 hour 12 minutes, a few weeks after the recording of “Volver”. Among the pieces were “Volver” by Carlos Gardel and Pepl’s “More Far Out Than East” (almost 21 minutes). Record PHY11006111 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the recording can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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27 September 1986 · Other
Bizim Caz, Datenbank des Jazz in der Türkei (online): „Dino Saluzzi ve Enrico Rava Beşlisi“, Şan Tiyatrosu, 2. Bilsak Caz Festivali
Database entry on the concert of the quintet of Dino Saluzzi and Enrico Rava on Saturday, 27 September 1986, at 11 pm at the Şan Tiyatrosu in Istanbul, Turkey, at the 2nd International Bilsak Jazz Festival, with Enrico Rava, Harry Pepl, Dino Saluzzi, Furio Di Castri and Bruce Ditmas.
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26 September 1986 · Other
Bizim Caz, Datenbank des Jazz in der Türkei (online): „Air Mail“, Şan Tiyatrosu, 2. Bilsak Caz Festivali
Database entry on the Air Mail concert on Friday, 26 September 1986, at 10 pm at the Şan Tiyatrosu in Istanbul, Turkey, at the 2nd International Bilsak Jazz Festival, with Wolfgang Puschnig, Harry Pepl, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger; organiser BİLSAK.
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July 1986 · Review · FR
Jazz Hot, no. 432: „Amiens : le temps du jazz“
Franck Bergerot
Festival report by Franck Bergerot in the July/August issue of Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, on the “Le temps du jazz” festival in Amiens (France) from 13 to 24 May 1986, at which the festival also launched its record label, Label Bleu. Under the heading “Coup de chaleur” (roughly: a blast of heat) he describes Air Mail's concert: fired up by Wolfgang Puschnig, driven by Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger, shaken up by an utterly unexpected Harry Pepl. To Bergerot it sounded as if Pepl wanted to pay tribute to the guitarist Joseph Dejean, who had died ten years earlier; in his playing he found again the thread of a history of the guitar that he had thought lost. The music was free, fresh, uninhibited and full of energy, and he had not enjoyed himself so much in a long time. The report gives no date for the concert. Thirty-five years later Bergerot paid tribute to Pepl again in Jazz Magazine, as “the late Austrian jazz guitarist”.
Air Mail, fired up by Wolfgang Puschnig, driven by the rhythm section of Mike Richmond / Wolfgang Reisinger and shaken up by an utterly unexpected Harry Pepl.
Franck Bergerot in Jazz Hot on Air Mail's concert at the “Le temps du jazz” festival in Amiens, France, in May 1986, under the heading “Coup de chaleur” (roughly: a blast of heat)
There I found again the thread of a history of the guitar that I feared I had lost for good.
Franck Bergerot on Pepl's guitar playing at Air Mail's concert in Amiens, France, in May 1986; just before, he writes that had Pepl wanted to pay tribute to the guitarist Joseph Dejean, who had died ten years earlier, he could not have gone about it any differently
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July 1986 · Review · FR
Jazz Hot, no. 432: „Du jazz sous les pommiers“
Alain Guerrini
Festival report by Alain Guerrini in the July/August issue of Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, on the 5th Jazz sous les pommiers in Coutances (Normandy, France) from 3 to 10 May 1986. On the closing night, at the theatre, Guerrini discovered Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig, Harry Pepl, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger as “un groupe prodigieux”, a prodigious group: from the Berlin ballad to hard rock, their music brought almost a century of music history back to life. As the most telling piece he names “Halley Comet”, probably Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”. The Eddy Louiss Big Band closed the evening. Jazz Hot names Puschnig as the band's leader; according to Daniel Pepl, Air Mail had no leader, and the statement is an error in the report. Guerrini gives 10 p.m. as the starting time, the festival archive 9 p.m.
There I discovered a prodigious group: Air Mail
Alain Guerrini in Jazz Hot on the closing night of the Jazz sous les pommiers festival in Coutances, France, on Saturday, 10 May 1986, Air Mail's first concert in France
“Halley Comet” is the most telling piece of this cosmic quartet.
Alain Guerrini on Air Mail's concert in Coutances, France, in May 1986; “Halley Comet” is probably Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”, later the title track of Air Mail's album “Light Blues” (1988)
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20 June 1986 · Report · DE
Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25: „Jazz-Formation »Air Mail« gastiert in Landeck“
Preview in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck (Tyrol, Austria), a local paper delivered to every household in the district, of Air Mail's concert on Thursday, 19 June 1986, at 8.30 p.m. at the Hotel Sonne in Landeck, the last before the summer break. The band's profile gives 1984 as the year it was founded and names its international debut at the New Jazz Festival Moers and at festivals in Cologne and Warsaw, the LP “Prayer for Peace” (1985) and the tour in May and June 1986 through Switzerland, Germany, France and Austria with the festivals in Coutances, Amiens, Maur near Zurich and Neuwied, as well as invitations to Istanbul, Ankara and Basel. It adds four press quotes in English, Polish, French and German, without naming the publications, and a group photo by Rainer Rygalyk.
“Air Mail”, one of the best contemporary quartets on the European jazz scene, is coming to town.
A much-noticed international debut at the “New Jazz Festival Moers” and at the festivals in Cologne and Warsaw.
Air Mail was the most enjoya[ble] discovery of the festival
English-language press quote on a festival appearance by Air Mail, publication and year not named; the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, a local paper in Tyrol, printed it in 1986 before the concert at the Hotel Sonne. The addition in square brackets fills the cut-off margin of the print.
an ideal jazz quartet … in the same breath we cite the example of John Coltrane's quartet of the 1960s
Polish press quote, publication and year not named; it compares Air Mail with John Coltrane's quartet of the 1960s. The Polish wording is given as printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck in 1986, with copying errors and additions at the margin in square brackets.
Air Mail is establishing itself as one of the most exciting quartets on the European scene.
French-language press quote, publication and year not named; the original wording is given as printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck in 1986.
A music that does justice to a trait of the times, an artistic togetherness to whose wholeness each contributes his own independent and irreplaceable share.
German-language press quote on Air Mail, publication and year not named; as printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, a local paper in Tyrol, in 1986.
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15 May 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert de jazz : [émission du 00/00/00]“
André Francis (production)
Combined programme by Radio France, France’s public radio broadcaster, of three concert recordings, which the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television, dates to Thursday, 15 May 1986, 3 hours 39 minutes in all. It opens with the trio of the trombonist Ray Anderson with Mark Helias (double bass) and Gerry Hemingway (drums), according to the record “enregistré le 15 mai 1986 à Paris” (recorded in Paris on 15 May 1986). Then come Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig (flute, alto saxophone, oboe), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond (double bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums), 1 hour 22 minutes, and finally the Orchestre National de Jazz, France’s national jazz orchestra, under François Jeanneau. The combined record names Paris as the venue only for Ray Anderson’s trio; Air Mail’s track list is in the separate record for this part (PHY14005647). The chronology gives Wednesday, 14 May, for Air Mail’s concert at the Paris club New Morning; whether the recording comes from that evening is open. Record PHY11006057_00 in the INA catalogue; the programme can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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15 May 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert de Air Mail“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Thursday, 15 May 1986: Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig (flute, alto saxophone, oboe), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond (double bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums), 1 hour 22 minutes. The track list names Pepl’s “Mulwolf” (according to Daniel Pepl “Das Auge des Maulwurfs”), “Light blue blues” (Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues), “The man in the old sea” and “Bike breaker” (Radlbremser), plus “Nudnicks” and “A prayer for peace”. The combined record for the same day (PHY11006057_00) places Air Mail alongside the trio of Ray Anderson, “enregistré le 15 mai 1986 à Paris” (recorded in Paris on 15 May 1986), and the Orchestre National de Jazz under François Jeanneau. The chronology gives Wednesday, 14 May, for the concert at the Paris club New Morning; whether it is the same evening is open. Record PHY14005647 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the recording can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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10 May 1986 · Programme booklet · FR
Jazz sous les pommiers, festival archive (online): „Air Mail“ (Programm der 5. Ausgabe, Samstag, 10. Mai, 21 Uhr, Théâtre)
Entry in the online archive of Jazz sous les pommiers, the jazz festival in Coutances (Normandy, France), for its 5th edition from 3 to 10 May 1986: Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig (saxophone), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond (double bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums) plays on the closing night, Saturday, 10 May, at 9 p.m. at the theatre, on the same evening as the Eddy Louiss Big Band and Blue Lips. The programme text introduces the band as “two Viennese” from the Vienna Art Orchestra, a prestigious bassist from the USA and Pepl as the “new star” of guitar-mad jazz fans, and announces Air Mail's first concert in France.
That is Air Mail, which will touch down in Coutances for its first concert in France.
Programme text of the Jazz sous les pommiers festival for Air Mail's concert on 10 May 1986; “se poser” means to land, in keeping with the band's name Air Mail
the new star of the “guitar-mad jazz fans”
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15 April 1986 · Other · FR
Tempo (Paris), no. 3: „En concert: tous les programmes jusqu’à fin juin“
Issue 3 of the free Paris concert paper “Tempo” (concerts and records) with listings up to the end of June 1986. Under the jazz club New Morning, the “Harry Pepl quartet” is announced for 14 May 1986, with Wolfgang Puschnig (soprano saxophone), Mike Richmond (bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums), i.e. the Air Mail line-up. Digitised by the “Archives du punk en France” of the University of Tours, p. 7.
On the 14th: Harry Pepl quartet: Wolfgang Puschnig, soprano sax; Mike Richmond, bass; Wolfgang Reisinger, drums.
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10 March 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Unit“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Monday, 10 March 1986, three days after the Banlieues Bleues festival; the record does not name the venue. The Michel Portal Unit plays with Michel Portal (soprano and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Harry Pepl (guitar), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Mino Cinelu (percussion, synthesizer), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Jean Schwartz (percussion), 1 hour 48 minutes. The track list names “Radl Bremser pastor” and “Desauge + maulwurfs no forte”, according to Daniel Pepl two pieces each, played in direct succession or segueing into each other: Pepl’s “Radlbremser” with Portal’s “Pastor” and Pepl’s “Das Auge des Maulwurfs” with Portal’s “No Forte”, plus “Halley's comet right blue blues”. Record PHY14005622 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the recording can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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7 March 1986 · Other · FR
Banlieues Bleues, festival archive (online): Konzert des 3. Festivals: Portal, DeJohnette, Cinelu, Jenny-Clark, Pepl
Entry in the online archive of Banlieues Bleues, the jazz festival in the Seine-Saint-Denis département near Paris (France), for the concert on Friday, 7 March 1986, at the Salle des fêtes in Montreuil: Michel Portal (reeds), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Mino Cinelu (percussion), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass) and Harry Pepl (guitar). The archive confirms that Cinelu also played in the concert, not only at the rehearsals. Between 1984 and 1990 it is the only evening with Pepl in the festival's archive.
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25 February 1986 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Harry Pepls Sessions in Frankreich“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Short report by the Austria Presse Agentur on Austrian jazz musicians abroad: Pepl was to play sets in Paris and Grenoble in early March 1986, and recordings with Michel Portal and Jack DeJohnette were planned.
Recordings with Michel Portal and Jack DeJohnette are also planned.