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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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  1. 11 December 2010 · Review · DE

    Süddeutsche Zeitung (Landkreisteil): „Wilder Wind aus Österreich“

    Patrizia Steipe

    Concert report from the Kulturkeller in Feldafing (Bavaria, Germany): on Wednesday, 8 December 2010, the Christian Muthspiel Trio plays its programme “Against the Wind” with the music of Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl. The Süddeutsche Zeitung calls the two a cult duo and their Jazzzwio a group that gave European jazz important impulses; the preview appeared on 4 December 2010.

    In the seventies and eighties Pirchner and Pepl formed the legendary “Jazz-Zwio”, a group that gave European jazz important impulses.

  2. 24 November 2010 · Review · DE

    Kleine Zeitung: „Eine Jazz Big Band, die Seelen baumeln lässt“

    Otmar Klammer

    Concert report from the finale of the Austrian Soundcheck: Stefan Heckel accepts the Harry Pepl Prize, endowed with 4,500 euros, and announces that he will devote himself to the namesake's work as a scholar. A few days before the fifth anniversary of Pepl's death, the trombone duo Daniel Riegler and Matthias Muche plays three arrangements of Pepl pieces, among them “125/250” from the Air Mail years.

    A few days before the fifth anniversary of the death of the Viennese jazz guitarist and composer, the trombone duo Daniel Riegler and Matthias Muche delivered three elegantly polished arrangements, of which the notorious “125/250” from Pepl's Airmail days came closest to his jagged style.

  3. 24 November 2010 · Review · DE

    Kronen Zeitung: „Schwülstige Fadesse“

    MW

    Report on the closing night of the 20th Austrian Soundcheck at the Orpheum in Graz: Stefan Heckel receives the third Harry Pepl Prize as the starting point for a doctoral thesis on Pepl's legacy, whose work, according to festival director Gerhard Kosel, still awaits scholarly study. As a prelude, Daniel Riegler (prize winner 2008) and Matthias Muche play three of Pepl's real-time compositions as a trombone duo.

    Since the death of the great guitarist and composer Harry Pepl (1945-2005), his work still awaits scholarly study, says Soundcheck director Gerhard Kosel.

    As a prelude, Daniel Riegler (Pepl Prize winner 2008) and Matthias Muche had performed three “real-time compositions” by the master as a trombone duo.

  4. 8 July 2010 · Review

    ECM Reviews (Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond): „Adelhard Roidinger: Schattseite (ECM 1221)“

    Tyran Grillo

    Review of Adelhard Roidinger's only ECM (the renowned European jazz label) album, recorded in November 1981 at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, with Heinz Sauer, Bob Degen, Harry Pepl, Werner Pirchner, Aina Kemanis and Michael DiPasqua. Grillo praises the airy, atmospheric sound, Pepl's soft guitar licks in the opening track and the Metheny-like picking in “Loveland”, and calls urgently for a reissue.

    The fantastic sax solo and Metheny-esque picking lend even more elegance to the track’s progressive sound.