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9 November 2021 · Review · FR
Jazz Magazine (online): „Nevers assis le matin, debout le soir“
Franck Bergerot
Festival report by Franck Bergerot in Jazz Magazine, the French jazz magazine, from the D'Jazz Nevers festival (Burgundy, France). The duo of Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (guitar) played its programme “Les heures propices”, songs by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, at noon on a Monday, probably on 8 November 2021. It included a piece by Harry Pepl, whom Bergerot honours as “the late Austrian jazz guitarist” who knew that melodic freshness and harmonic candour.
a borrowing from the late Austrian jazz guitarist Harry Pepl (who knew that melodic freshness, that harmonic candour and its disarming anachronisms)
The French jazz critic Franck Bergerot on a piece by Pepl in “Les heures propices”, the programme of the duo Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (songs by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s), at the D'Jazz Nevers festival in Nevers, France, in 2021
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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.
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3 October 2021 · Review · FR
CultureJazz: „13 arches... en jazz, ça porte bonheur ?“
Thierry Giard
Festival report by Thierry Giard (photos Christian Ducasse) in CultureJazz (French jazz magazine) on “Les Arches en Jazz” 2021. At the concert by Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel on Saturday, 25 September 2021, at noon in the church of Notre-Dame in Port-Bail-sur-Mer, the programme included compositions by Harry Pepl, Jim Pepper, David Crosby and Thelonious Monk alongside their own pieces. Giard had already heard the duo on 31 July 2021 in Rambaud (Hautes-Alpes).
On the menu that lunchtime were original compositions but also pieces by the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl, the Native American saxophonist Jim Pepper, David Crosby and Thelonious Monk.
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2 August 2021 · Review · FR
Le Dauphiné Libéré (im Tätigkeitsbericht 2021 des Festival de Chaillol): „Festival de Chaillol: le duo Tortiller et Fitzgerald-Michel très applaudi“
Report by Le Dauphiné Libéré (regional newspaper of the French Alps) on the concert of the duo Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (guitar) at the 25th Festival de Chaillol on Saturday, 31 July 2021, in a packed community hall in the Serre-Ponçon: Val d’Avance area (Hautes-Alpes, France). Besides Tortiller’s “On ne danse qu’une seule fois” and Monk’s “Bemsha Swing”, the duo played a piece by the “Austrian composer Harry Pepl”. Preserved in the festival’s 2021 activity report, pp. 55 to 56.
classics such as Thelonious Monk’s “Bemsha Swing”, or another by the Austrian composer Harry Pepl.
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18 June 2020 · Report · FR
FIP (Radio France): „„Les heures propices“ et majestueuses de Franck Tortiller“
Catherine Carette
Article by the Paris radio station FIP on the duo album “Les heures propices” by Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald Michel (guitar), released on 19 June 2020 on MCO. Even before the studio sessions, the duo presented Pepl’s piece “Air, Love and Vitamins” during lockdown, according to FIP a nod to the Vienna Art Orchestra and to Christian Muthspiel. The video is embedded.
the duo was already unveiling this piece by the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl, a nod to the Vienna Art Orchestra and to Christian Muthspiel
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8 June 2020 · Report · FR
Jazz Magazine (online): „Franck Tortiller / Misja Fitzgerald-Michel, disque imminent“
Xavier Prévost
In Jazz Magazine, the French jazz magazine, Xavier Prévost announces the duo album “Les heures propices” by the vibraphonist Franck Tortiller and the guitarist Misja Fitzgerald-Michel, released on Friday, 19 June 2020, and presents two videos; one of them, with a composition by Harry Pepl, recalls Tortiller's long spell in the Vienna Art Orchestra.
And also a reminder of the vibraphonist’s long spell in the Vienna Art Orchestra, with a composition by Harry Pepl