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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. 4 October 2021 · Review · FR

    Citizen Jazz: „Les Arches en jazz, une première“

    Marie Boisnel

    Report by Marie Boisnel in Citizen Jazz (French jazz magazine) on the first “Les Arches en Jazz” festival in Port-Bail-sur-Mer (Cotentin, Normandy, France). At the midday concert in the church of Notre-Dame, the duo Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald Michel played “Air, Love and Vitamins”, Pepl’s “gentle ballad” written for the same duo of guitar and vibraphone with Werner Pirchner.

    Then the gentle ballad by the Austrian guitarist and composer Harry Pepl, written for the same duo with Werner Pirchner, guitar and vibraphone, “Air, love and vitamins”, plunges us into a languorous meditation.

  2. 2 August 2021 · Radio · DE

    Ö1 (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Solo am Genfer See: Harri Stojka“

    Albert Hosp (Gestaltung)

    Programme page for an Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) broadcast about Harri Stojka’s solo appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on 12 July 1981, aired on 1 August 2021. The text places the performance in a guitar evening at which Biréli Lagrène, Philip Catherine and Harry Pepl in duo with Werner Pirchner also played, confirming the date of the Jazzzwio’s Montreux concert.

    at a guitar evening at which Biréli Lagrène, Philip Catherine and (in a duo with Werner Pirchner) Harry Pepl also performed

  3. 7 April 2021 · Report · DE

    Augustin (p. 25, art.ist.in): „In memoriam Werner Pirchner“

    felix

    Short commemorative article in the Viennese street paper on the 20th anniversary of Werner Pirchner’s death, pointing to a concert by Ernst Kovacic and friends at the Sargfabrik on 15 April 2021. It recalls that Pirchner ran the Jazzzwio with Harry Pepl for years, sometimes extended by the bassist Adelhard Roidinger to Austria Drei.

    Together with the guitarist Harry Pepl, the vibraphonist ran the JazzZwio for years, sometimes joined by the bassist Adelhard Roidinger to form Austria Drei.

  4. 6 April 2021 · Review · DE

    Wiener Zeitung (p. 18, arts section): „Gegengift zum Corona-Blues“

    Christoph Irrgeher

    CD review of an album by the Schwarzenberg Trio with piano trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Werner Pirchner. Irrgeher introduces Pirchner as the vibraphonist who shook up the jazz world with Harry Pepl, as far as the Montreux festival, and discusses his trio “Heimat?”. The online version appeared on wienerzeitung.at on 5 April 2021.

    As a vibraphonist he shook up the jazz world together with the guitarist Harry Pepl (as far as the Montreux festival)