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10 December 2021 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume Nachtausgabe (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Jazzorchestraler Rundfunk: Erinnerungen an die ORF Big Band“
Ines Reiger und Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)
Programme marking 50 years of the ORF Big Band on Friday, 10 December 2021, continued after midnight. The radio big band (ORF: Austria’s public broadcaster), which grew out of the Johannes Fehring Orchestra in October 1971, existed until 1982; the text names Pepl alongside Fritz Pauer and Erich Bachträgl among its important Austrian musicians. The music includes recordings with Carl Drewo, Slide Hampton and Dexter Gordon.
Important Austrian jazz musicians such as the pianist Fritz Pauer, the guitarist Harry Pepl or the drummer Erich Bachträgl complemented this international quality congenially.
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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
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25 June 2021 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 43, Tagesaviso): „Musik der Harry Pepl’s Band“
Listing for the evening on 26 June 2021, 7.30 pm, at the Bambergsaal in Villach: a quartet plays with previously unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period, the music of “Harry Pepl’s Lonely Single Swinger Band”.
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23 June 2021 · Report · DE
MeinBezirk Kärnten (p. 36, Top-Tipps der Woche): „Harry Pepl (tape) & Band“
Preview of the concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band on Saturday, 26 June 2021, at the Bambergsaal in Villach (8 pm according to MeinBezirk, 7.30 pm according to the Kleine Zeitung and ORF Teletext). The quartet around Clemens Salesny plays with unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period (1996 to 2005); because of the Covid restrictions 110 listeners were admitted. Recordings from this evening appear on the album “Live”.
the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005
If you close your eyes, it is almost as if Harry Pepl were still on stage
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7 April 2021 · Report · DE
Augustin (p. 25, art.ist.in): „In memoriam Werner Pirchner“
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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.
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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)