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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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10 January 1988 · Portrait · DE
Kleine Zeitung: „Feldzug mit der Gitarre“
Otmar Klammer
Portrait on page 18 of the Graz guitar professor who, according to the newspaper Le Monde, was called a „Gigant der Improvisation“ [“giant of improvisation”]. It traces his path from the Austrian Aces through commercial bands, the Fledermaus bar and the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster) to the professorship, and mentions recordings with DeJohnette, Holland, Saluzzi and Portal. Remarks by Scofield and Abercrombie about Pepl are also on record.
The guitar professor in Graz is regarded internationally as one of the best in his field.
He's great, he's like a machine gun
The American jazz guitarist John Abercrombie (ECM) on Pepl’s blistering speed, meant as praise; reported in the Kleine Zeitung, a daily from Graz, in 1988
John Abercrombie
Giant of improvisation
Le Monde
internationally sought-after master of improvisation
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7 April 1987 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Jazz-Splitter“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Short report: Pepl had been in the studio with the trumpeter and flugelhorn player Herbert Joos (the result became “Cracked Mirrors”), sessions in France with Jack DeJohnette, Michel Portal and Mino Cinelu would follow in May, and a trio record with DeJohnette and Dave Holland was in preparation. Pepl is introduced as guitar professor at the jazz department of the Graz music academy (today the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz).
A trio record with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland is in preparation.
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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.
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23 September 1984 · Other · DE
steirischer herbst, festival archive (online): „Michel Portal Unit featuring Harry Pepl“
Entry in the archive of the steirischer herbst festival on the guest performance on Sunday, 23 September 1984, in the former slaughterhouse in Graz, Austria, in the “Falso Loco” series, with Daniel Humair, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Joachim Kühn, George Lewis, Harry Pepl and Michel Portal.