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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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September 1988 · Review · FR
Le Monde de la Musique: Michel Portal: „Men's Land“ (Plattenkritik, vier Sterne)
Paul Goupil
Record review in issue no. 114 (September 1988), “Disques” section, jazz, pages 74 and 75, four stars. In “Men’s Land” Goupil hears not a gathering around Portal but a “rather heterogeneous” line-up (Cinelu, DeJohnette, Jenny-Clark, Liebman, Pepl) inviting Portal to join them. He calls Portal’s composition “Pastor” superb but feels that Harry Pepl’s “chatter” breaks its intensity; DeJohnette and Liebman stand “beside” rather than “with” Portal on stage. The album is the recording of the concert at the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens; Goupil places it among Portal’s risky live recordings, as opposed to studio work such as “Turbulence”. Google Books showed the passage (collected volume nos. 112 to 117, p. 74) only as an unreadable image; the Médiathèque musicale de Paris photographed the pages on Tuesday, 20 October 2026.
On two of the four pieces Michel Portal is the composer. His writing on “Pastor” is superb, but Harry Pepl’s chatter breaks its intensity.
Paul Goupil in his four-star review of “Men’s Land” (Label Bleu, live recording Amiens 1987); a critical voice, deliberately included as a counterweight
Portal is in the habit of alternating imperfect, risky and thrilling live recordings like this one with little jewels chiselled in the studio in the manner of “Turbulence” or “Dejarme Solo”.
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17 August 1988 · Review · FR
Le Monde: „Michel Portal: « Men's land »“
F. M. (wahrscheinlich Francis Marmande)
Record review in Le Monde, the Paris daily, of Michel Portal's Amiens recording “Men's Land” (Label Bleu). The review calls the line-up “particularly well chosen” and lists Jack DeJohnette, Dave Liebman, Mino Cinelu, Harry Pepl and Jean-François Jenny-Clark. It is signed with initials, very probably “F. M.” for Francis Marmande, the paper's jazz critic.
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30 May 1987 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Le temps du jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Unit 87“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Saturday, 30 May 1987, at the Amiens jazz festival, the evening of the live album “Men's Land”: Michel Portal, Dave Liebman (soprano saxophone), Harry Pepl (guitar), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion), 1 hour 18 minutes. The recording is longer than the album: besides “Ahmad the terrible”, “Easy” and “Pastor” the record lists a trio improvisation, “Changement” by Joachim Kühn, “Bandolina”, “Jack” and a piece “Comète” by Harry Pepl, according to Daniel Pepl “Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”, which is not on “Men's Land”. Record PHY14005763 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 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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10 June 1984 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Plus“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Sunday, 10 June 1984, according to a France Musique broadcast of the following year at the jazz festival in Angoulême, France: Michel Portal Plus with Michel Portal (alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet), Harry Sokal (tenor saxophone), Joachim Kühn (piano, keyboards), Harry Pepl (guitar), Claude Barthélemy (electric bass), Jean-Paul Celea and Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Daniel Humair (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion), 1 hour 24 minutes. Besides pieces by Portal, Kühn and Sokal the programme lists a title “Pepl's theme” by Harry Pepl. Record PHY14005306 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.