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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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14 December 2025 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 47, Aviso): „Im Dialog mit Harry Pepl“
Listing for the open music evening at the Stockwerk in Graz on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 8 pm: a quartet plays live with previously unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period.
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The listing documents the concert date, which the reports of 18 December do not give.
An intense musical dialogue with the “giant of improvisation”.
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26 November 2025 · Report · DE
Fullmax Recordings (Website): Beitrag zum Österreichischen Jazzpreis 2025, Best Album
Post on the album “Live” taking 2nd place in the Best Album category at the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria).
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The Jazz Academy consists of 149 experts, there were over 170 submissions and a seven-member expert jury; the award ceremony took place at Casino Velden.
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November 2025 · Report · DE
ORF Kärnten (Online): Bericht über den Österreichischen Jazzpreis 2025
Report on the presentation of the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria) at Casino Velden, with the ranking in the Best Album category: Kenji Herbert Trio ahead of Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band and the Tobias Meissl Trio.
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27 October 2025 · Report · DE
mica music austria (musicaustria.at): „Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025: Die Gewinner*innen stehen fest!“
Report on the announcement of the winners on Monday, 27 October 2025, four weeks before the gala in Velden: in the Best Album category, “Live” by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band takes second place behind the Kenji Herbert Trio.
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The Austrian Music Council (27 October 2025) and the AKM (29 October 2025) published the same ranking.
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27 September 2025 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 38, culture): „Besondere Hörerfahrung“
Michaela Reichart
Preview of the autumn programme of Ute Pinter’s Graz concert series open music, now in its 25th year.
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Besides Studio Dan and the Darius Jones Trio, an evening for Harry Pepl was already fixed for December 2025: the Single Swinger Band at the Stockwerk on 16 December. mica (Austrian music information centre) spoke on 23 September 2025 of the „doppelten Harry-Pepl-Gedenkjahr“ [“double Harry Pepl commemorative year”].
a project dedicated to Harry Pepl, who died in 2005
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10 December 2024 · Report
JazzDanmark: „DMA Jazz 2024 in Store VEGA: The winners are here!“
Report on the presentation of the Danish Music Awards Jazz (Danish jazz awards) 2024 at Store VEGA in Copenhagen.
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The album “Live at H15 Studio” by the Kresten Osgood Quintet (ILK Music), on which Pepl’s piece “The Halleys Comet - Light Blue Blues” can be heard, was named Jazz Release of the Year. The text itself does not mention Pepl.
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12 April 2024 · Report
European Jazz Masters Of The Past (Blog): „European Jazz Masters Of The Past #3: Herbert Joos“
Wulf Müller
Biographical essay on Herbert Joos. Towards the end of the 1980s Joos went into the studio with Harry Pepl and Jon Christensen to record “Cracked Mirrors”, which was released in 1988 to critical acclaim.
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he went into the studio with Austrian guitar master Harry Pepl and Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen to record ‘Cracked Mirrors’
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15 March 2024 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur): „Jazz-Saxofonist Harry Sokal wird 70: „Bin musikalisch ein Chamäleon““
APA (wm/luw)
Agency report on the 70th birthday of the saxophonist Harry Sokal, a founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra.
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In the list of musicians Sokal has played with, Harry Pepl appears alongside Art Blakey, Dave Holland, Michel Portal, Friedrich Gulda and Joe Zawinul. The report also ran on kleinezeitung.at, sn.at, tt.com, vienna.at and other portals.
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2 February 2024 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 12, Niederösterreich-Beilage): „Mit Vielseitigkeit in einen jazzigen Frühling“
Teresa Sturm
Preview of the spring programme of the Krems association “That’s Jazz” at the Salzstadl. On 13 April 2024, in cooperation with musik.aktuell, the quartet of the vibraphonist Flip Philipp plays the music of Werner Pirchner and his Zwio partner Harry Pepl there.
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to portray the quirky world of Werner Pirchner and his legendary “Zwio” partner Harry Pepl
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4 October 2023 · Report · DE
NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (p. 94): „Legende Harry Pepl zurück auf Bühne“
Franz Pfeffer
Report with photo on the Single Swinger Band’s performance at the Open Inn Door Day on Saturday, 30 September 2023, in the sparkasse.event.raum of the Syrnau cultural association in Zwettl, admission free.
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The quartet played with previously unreleased recordings; the picture shows the hosts Michaela and Erwin Schierhuber with Clemens Salesny, Valentin Duit, the sound engineer Markus Wallner and Andi Schreiber.
the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005 returned to the stage
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29 September 2023 · Report · DE
noe.ORF.at (Online): „Bühnenwirtshäuser öffnen im ganzen Land“
Preview of the first “Open Inn Door Day” of the Lower Austrian stage inns on Saturday, 30 September 2023, with free admission at ten venues.
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Under the subheading „Unveröffentlichte Klänge von Jazz-Gitarrist Pepl“ [“Unreleased sounds by jazz guitarist Pepl”] it announces the Single Swinger Band’s evening at the Syrnau in Zwettl. The provincial press release went out via APA-OTS on 28 September 2023 (OTS0063).
“The (lonely) single swinger band” improvises over unreleased recordings from the last creative period of the jazz guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005.
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12 September 2023 · Report · DE
meinbezirk.at: „Tini Kainrath & Peter Havlicek Duo: „Wia a rode Rosn““
Announcement of a concert by the duo of Tini Kainrath (vocals) and Peter Havlicek (guitar, contraguitar).
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The text introduces Havlicek as a pupil of Harry Pepl who went on to share the stage with André Heller, Michael Heltau, Hansi Lang and Trude Mally. The same text appeared on badvoeslau.at on 28 November 2024.
Trained by Harry Pepl, one of the wildest on the guitar
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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).
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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.
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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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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.
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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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11 June 2020 · Report · DE
radiohoerer.info: „Harry Pepls ‚Hip Jargon‘ plus Werner Pirchner anno 1975“
Music tip on the blog radiohoerer.info (radio and media tips for new music, jazz and audio) for the programme “In Concert” on Ö1, the cultural radio station of the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster), on 5 June 2020. The post reproduces Ö1's programme text (presented by Helmut Jasbar): a recording from the ORF radio archive captures Pepl's trio Hip Jargon with Wayne Darling (double bass) and Fritz Ozmec (drums) on 25 September 1975 in the Large Broadcasting Hall of the Funkhaus in Vienna, Austria, with Werner Pirchner as guest on vibraphone. This lets Hip Jargon be heard as the nucleus of the Jazzzwio. The blog's playlist names three joint pieces by Pepl and Pirchner, among them “Pfifferling” and “Down At The Ticky Toe”; titles and durations differ from the Ö1 programme page, which is authoritative.
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“Free jazz for connoisseurs” was what a critic in the Salzburger Volksblatt, a daily newspaper in Salzburg, Austria, called it at the time.
the unpolished gem of a concert on 25 September 1975 in the Large Broadcasting Hall of the Vienna Funkhaus, the ORF's broadcasting house
Free jazz for connoisseurs
Verdict of a critic of the Salzburger Volksblatt, a daily newspaper in Salzburg, Austria, on Pepl's trio Hip Jargon around 1975, when Werner Pirchner joined as a guest; this collaboration grew into the Jazzzwio
Kritiker des Salzburger Volksblatts
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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.
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And also a reminder of the vibraphonist’s long spell in the Vienna Art Orchestra, with a composition by Harry Pepl
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13 February 2020 · Report · DE
Tiroler Tageszeitung (p. 12, Kultur & Medien): „Verwurzelt, wie von Flora gezeichnet“
Ursula Strohal
Round-table conversation for Werner Pirchner’s 80th birthday with Elfie Pirchner, who looks after her husband’s estate, and the composer Thomas Larcher.
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Among Pirchner’s early companions and supporters the article names Harry Pepl, with whom the vibraphonist formed a duo.
of course the guitarist Harry Pepl, with whom Pirchner became an untamed duo