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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. 10 September 2026 · Other · DE

    Facebook (Thomas Palme): „...noch eine Harry Pepl Story zu seinem heutigen 81 Geburtstag“

    Thomas Palme

    Public Facebook post by the Viennese jazz and blues guitarist Thomas Palme for Harry Pepl's 81st birthday with a memory of an Air Mail concert (Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond, Wolfgang Reisinger) at the Titanic, a fashionable club at the time in the Theobaldgasse in Vienna, Austria, in the 1980s or early 1990s: when the power failed in the middle of the set, Pepl played a Wes Montgomery tune by candlelight, all alone and acoustically, and the room fell silent and reverent. Photo in the original post: Andreas Mayer.

    An anecdote that shows how deeply Pepl, despite his modern, highly virtuosic guitar playing, was also rooted in the jazz guitar tradition

    to this day a very vivid memory of one of Austria's greatest jazz guitarists

  2. 2026 · Other · DE

    SWR (Südwestrundfunk), SWR NEWJazz Meeting: „Chronologie SWR NEWJazz Meeting (1966 bis 2026)“

    Julia Neupert und Sara Barth

    Chronology of the SWR NEWJazz Meeting (formerly the Südwestfunk’s New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden) from 1966 to 2026. For 1980 it lists the “String Meeting”, an ensemble dominated by string instruments with six string players and two guitarists, among them Harry Pepl; the final concert took place in Mainz on 28 November 1980. Other participants: John Blake, Wolfgang Dauner, Krzesimir Dębski, Christian Escoudé, Pierre Favre, Didier Lockwood, Barre Phillips, Ack van Rooyen, Bo Stief, Fredy Studer and Abdul Wadud.

    “Never-before-heard sounds” is what Joachim Ernst Berendt promises the audience at the final concert in Mainz on 28 November, played by an ensemble dominated by string instruments

  3. 2025 · Other · DE

    violafalb.com (Website Viola Falb): Biografie Viola Falb

    Viola Falb

    Biography on the website of the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb, covering her training, bands such as FALB FICTION and the saxophone quartet PHOEN, and a list of awards up to 2025. It lists the Harry Pepl Prize under 2016; the contemporary reports in Falter and NÖN document the award in November 2015.

  4. 16 August 2024 · Other · JA

    Guitar Records, Japan (Plattenhandel, Social-Media-Post und Webshop): „ECM 55周年記念 特集“ (Auswahl von ECM-Gitarrenalben)

    Announcement by the Japanese record dealer Guitar Records of a sale marking 55 years of ECM (the renowned European jazz label), with original LPs by ECM guitarists including Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner and Terje Rypdal. The list also includes “Herbert Joos - Harry Pepl - Jon Christensen / Cracked Mirrors / ECM 1356”. A dealer's offer, not a canon: it shows that the album was still on sale in Japan in 2024 as a sought-after original LP. According to the page, the sale was set for Friday, 16 August (year not stated, derived from the 2024 anniversary).

  5. June 2024 · Other

    Bandcamp (Kresten Osgood): „LIVE AT H15 STUDIO“ (Kresten Osgood Quintet)

    Kresten Osgood Quintet

    Release page of the album “Live At H15 Studio” (ILK Music, June 2024) by the Danish Kresten Osgood Quintet. Track 2 is “The Halleys Comet - Light Blue Blues” by Harry Pepl; the album was named Jazz Release of the Year at the Danish Music Awards Jazz (Danish jazz awards) in 2024.