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22 November 2010 · Portrait · DE
Kleine Zeitung: „Freigeist an den Tasten“
Otmar Klammer
Portrait of the Graz pianist Stefan Heckel on the day he receives the third Harry Pepl Prize (Monday, 22 November 2010, Orpheum Graz, closing night of the Austrian Soundcheck). The award of 4,000 euros from gamsbART (Graz concert promoter) launches Heckel's doctoral thesis on Pepl's work; at the end Daniel Riegler and Matthias Muche play a “Tribute to Harry Pepl”.
For it is to be devoted entirely to the oeuvre of the jazz guitarist and composer Harry Pepl, who passed away suddenly five years ago.
Between jazz, ethnic and Alpine music, musical freedom is always at the centre of the creative process for Heckel, as it was for Pepl.
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14 July 2010 · Portrait · DE
Falter: „Durchs weite Land, Gitarre in der Hand“
Portrait of the guitarist Martin Siewert. The Falter (Vienna weekly) describes him as a jazz guitarist trained in Graz “by the legendary Harry Pepl”; Siewert himself says of his teacher that he was just about the only fantastic thing about Graz.
he was just about the only fantastic thing about Graz
Martin Siewert
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6 May 2010 · Portrait · DE
mica – music austria (Online): „Porträt: Wolfgang Reisinger“
Portrait of the drummer Wolfgang Reisinger at mica – music austria (Austria’s music information centre). Besides Part Of Art, he names Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond and Harry Pepl as the second important band of his own during his time in the Vienna Art Orchestra. Pepl, he says, was the first of the great musicians from whom he could learn a lot, “a real genius”. He recounts how John Scofield called out “I’ll kill you!” to Pepl as they changed over on stage, and mentions tapes of a live performance that are almost better than the two studio albums.
Time and again I have had the good fortune to meet great musicians from whom you could really learn a lot, and the first of them was definitely Harry Pepl. He was a real genius and a great guitarist, with an energy and seriousness that showed you where things could go.
Wolfgang Reisinger
I still remember well how we once came off the stage, John Scofield went on, and in passing he said to Harry, ‘I’ll kill you!’. Those are the little experiences you don’t forget. That really was a totally hot band back then.
Wolfgang Reisinger