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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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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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  1. 3 December 2007 · Report · DE

    mica music austria: „Tribute to Harry Pepl im Porgy“

    Announcement of a tribute evening at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) in Vienna on 6 December 2007, two years after Pepl’s death. The text pays tribute to him as an internationally sought-after boundary-crosser and names collaborations with Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi, Jon Christensen and Dave Liebman. The evening is organised by former companions, prompted by the Graz platform Gamsb'Art, which awards the Harry Pepl Prize.

    one of the most respected Austrian musicians

  2. 27 November 2007 · Radio · FR

    France Musique, „Un mardi idéal“ (broadcast listed in the INA catalogue): „Musique vivante“

    Arièle Butaux (production and presentation)

    Live broadcast by France Musique on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, from 8 to 10 pm, with an audience in the Studio Charles Trenet of the Maison de Radio France in Paris: among other guests, the trio of Jean-Paul Celea (double bass), François Couturier (piano) and Daniel Humair (drums), which released the album “Tryptic” the same year, played Harry Pepl’s “Tintenfisch Inki”, among other pieces. Record 3290738.001 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the broadcast can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.

  3. 13 March 2007 · Radio · DE

    Deutschlandfunk, Nachtradio (Playlist): „Milestones - Harry Pepl“ (Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte)

    Playlist of a late-night radio programme on 13 March 2007 at 01:05, with “Live in Montreux 81”, the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) album with Pirchner and DeJohnette and Air Mail’s “Light Blues”. It shows Pepl as an entry in a German series on classics of jazz history.

  4. 2007 · Press release · DE

    Christian Muthspiel Trio, „Against The Wind“ (Linernotes): „Das Christian Muthspiel Trio spielt Werner Pirchner und Harry Pepl“

    Andreas Felber

    Liner notes to the album “Against The Wind” (2007) in German, English and French. Felber describes Pirchner and Pepl as “perfectionist characters” who played Europe's festivals as the “Jazz-Zwio” roughly between 1978 and 1985, and reports that the young improvisers of the JazzWerkstatt Wien elevate Pepl to the father figure of the Austrian scene. The basis was a project with Wolfgang Muthspiel for the “Glatt&Verkehrt” festival in 2002. The product page also carries press quotes from Die Weltwoche and the Salzburger Nachrichten.

    Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl were perfectionist characters who never did anything by halves.

    While the young improvisers of the JazzWerkstatt Wien, after Hans Koller, are now discovering Harry Pepl too and so elevating him to the father figure of the Austrian scene