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6 December 2006 · Programme booklet · DE
Porgy & Bess (programme note, Online): „A Tribute to Harry Pepl“, Mittwoch, 06.12.2006, 20:00 Uhr
initials „CH“
Announcement of the tribute evening with Lorenz Raab and Raphael Preuschl, the Andy Manndorff Trio, the Koehne Quartet and Peter Ponger solo, plus the concert films of Benny Goodman and of the Jazzzwio in Montreux in 1981 and visuals by Rainer Rygalyk. The text pays tribute to Pepl and mentions the three-day series devoted to him at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) in 1994; the net proceeds went to the administration of his estate.
But it was Harry Pepl himself who was truly “ace”
When you talk to guitarists, e.g. to Abercrombie or Scofield, there was one constant question: “And how is Harry?”
As an original stylist who left a lasting impression on the international scene through his technical perfection, rhythmic incisiveness, harmonic variety and overflowing musical energy
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16 March 1989 · Programme booklet · DE
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, programme booklet, Brahms-Saal (series „Freude an Musik“, concert 3): Ensemble Wien, Donnerstag, 16. März 1989, 18.30 Uhr
editor: Teresa Reichenberger
Programme booklet of the concert in which the Ensemble Wien plays Pepl’s “Ballade for Mr. Dinozo” for two violins, viola and double bass. The note on Pepl summarises critics’ comments and mentions his jazz trio with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen as well as the Jazzzwio in Montreux. Pepl is wrongly described there as a Tyrolean guitarist.
one of the most innovative guitarists across the whole of Europe
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May 1985 · Programme booklet
Austrian Information (Austrian Press and Information Service, New York): Programm „Beyond the Sound of Music. New Austria / New York“ mit Fotos, Volume 38, Nr. 4, S. 5 bis 6
Picture page and daily programme of the New York festival. On Wednesday, 15 May 1985, at 7.30 p.m. at the Ohio Theater (66 Wooster Street, SoHo, New York), Hartmut Skerbisch (Austrian sculptor) shows his installation “Container”, Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl and Don Moye as guest play jazz, and the Viennese composer Otto M. Zykan performs “Samples”. Further events: readings by Austrian writers on 13 and 14 May at the Deutsches Haus, 13 Austrian architects at the Austrian Institute (until 31 May), six photographers at the Arbitrage Gallery (until 8 June), the reading hosted by John Irving and Walter Abish (16 May), Dieter Kaufmann and Gunda König of the K und K Experimentalstudio (17 May), Ernst Schmidt Jr. with “Vienna Film 1896-1976”, Blizz Frizz with the New York guitarist Rhys Chatham, Armin Medosch with the ballet “The Warrior” (18 May), Austrian short films at the Millennium and Heinz Cibulka with “Metabolism/Rot.Weiss.Rot” (19 May), plus “Grid” actions by Othmar Krenn. The photo page shows Pepl with his guitar, Pirchner at the vibraphone and Moye in stage costume; the programme misprints Pirchner’s name as “Pircher”.
Werner Pircher, Harry Pepl, and F. Don Moye as guest play jazz
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4 September 1981 · Programme booklet · DE
Jazzfestival Saalfelden programme booklet 1981: „3 Tage Jazz“ Saalfelden 81
Programme booklet of the “3 Tage Jazz” (“3 Days of Jazz”) from Friday, 4 to Sunday, 6 September 1981, published by the Jazzclub Saalfelden (Salzburg, Austria); today’s Jazzfestival Saalfelden grew out of this event. In the text on the quintet of Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette on the Friday, the booklet looks back at the 1980 festival: DeJohnette’s appearances with John Purcell, Chico Freeman and Peter Warren and the jam session with the Jazzzwio of Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl were among its highlights.
Jack’s appearances with John Purcell […] as well as the jam session with the Pirchner-Pepl Zwio were surely among the highlights of the Saalfelden festival last year
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7 September 1979 · Programme booklet · DE
Jazzfestival Saalfelden programme booklet 1979: „3 Tage Jazz“ Saalfelden 79
Programme booklet of the “3 Tage Jazz” (“3 Days of Jazz”) from Friday, 7 to Sunday, 9 September 1979, published by the Jazzclub Saalfelden (Salzburg, Austria); today’s Jazzfestival Saalfelden grew out of this event. On the Sunday at 4 pm the Jazz-Zwio of Harry Pepl (guitar) and Werner Pirchner (vibraphone, marimba) opened the day, followed by André Jaume, the Oliver Lake Trio and the quartet of Albert Mangelsdorff and Wolfgang Dauner. The short biography on p. 18 names Pepl as head of the jazz guitar department “at the jazz academy in Graz”, meaning the jazz department of the Graz music academy, today the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz; it dates the duo to 1977, while other sources give 1975. The list of all earlier Saalfelden concerts on p. 42 records the group Hip Jargon with Pirchner, Pepl, Wayne Darling and Fritz Ozmec for 23 June 1975.
heads the jazz guitar department at the jazz academy in Graz