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27 September 1986 · Other
Bizim Caz, Datenbank des Jazz in der Türkei (online): „Dino Saluzzi ve Enrico Rava Beşlisi“, Şan Tiyatrosu, 2. Bilsak Caz Festivali
Database entry on the concert of the quintet of Dino Saluzzi and Enrico Rava on Saturday, 27 September 1986, at 11 pm at the Şan Tiyatrosu in Istanbul, Turkey, at the 2nd International Bilsak Jazz Festival, with Enrico Rava, Harry Pepl, Dino Saluzzi, Furio Di Castri and Bruce Ditmas.
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3 November 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Festival de Jazz de Paris : Concert du Dino Saluzzi quintet“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Monday, 3 November 1986, at the Festival de Jazz de Paris: the quintet of Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon) and Enrico Rava (trumpet) with Harry Pepl (guitar), Furio Di Castri (double bass) and Bruce Ditmas (drums), 1 hour 12 minutes, a few weeks after the recording of “Volver”. Among the pieces were “Volver” by Carlos Gardel and Pepl’s “More Far Out Than East” (almost 21 minutes). Record PHY11006111 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the recording can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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April 1988 · Review
Wire Magazine (heute The Wire), no. 50: Kritik zu „Volver“ (ECM 1343) in der Rubrik „Soundcheck“, Abschnitt „Fast Licks“
Mike Fish
Short review in the 50th issue of the British music magazine Wire (now The Wire), in the “Soundcheck” section under “Fast Licks”. Mike Fish reviews “Volver”, the album by the quintet of Enrico Rava (trumpet) and Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon) on ECM, the renowned European jazz label, with Harry Pepl (guitar), Furio Di Castri (bass) and Bruce Ditmas (drums). Saluzzi draws real lyricism from the bandoneon; together with Rava’s elegant trumpet and Pepl’s reverberant guitar, the result is music full of empathy and enthusiasm, and in “Minguito” the band plays very hot.
when matched with the grandee elegance of Rava’s style, and Pepl’s reverberant guitar, the music that results has a redemptive empathy and enthusiasm
Sometimes, as in “Minguito”, they blow very hot indeed.
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7 December 2005 · Obituary · DE
JazzEcho (Universal Classics, Online): „Ade Harry Pepl!“
Online obituary of Wednesday, 7 December 2005. His most important project, from 1977, was the duo with Werner Pirchner, which brought him international recognition and invitations from all over the world. According to the obituary, Pepl then worked with Dino Saluzzi, Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland, as well as with the Vienna Art Orchestra. As a full professor in Graz from 1984, he set students such as the guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel on their way. It closes with a pointer to the CD “Light Blues” by Air Mail (Emarcy, 2001).
one of the defining instrumentalists of the European jazz scene
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4 December 2009 · Other
Jazzrytmit (finnische Jazzzeitschrift, online): „Hans Koller Jazz Prize Winners 2009“
Harald Justin
English-language announcement of the Hans Koller Prizes 2009 (Austrian jazz awards named after the saxophonist Hans Koller, funded among others by the City of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture) on the website of the Finnish jazz magazine Jazzrytmit. The European Jazz Prize 2009 went to the Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava; Harald Justin’s tribute names, among Rava’s many band projects, those with Harry Pepl first, ahead of Dino Saluzzi, Ray Anderson, Albert Mangelsdorff and Lee Konitz. Two other winners come from Pepl’s circle: Wolfgang Reisinger, drummer of Air Mail, as Musician of the Year, and Clemens Salesny, who since 2015 has shaped the posthumous projects built on Pepl’s recorded tracks, as Newcomer of the Year. The awards ceremony was announced for Saturday, 27 March 2010, at the Vienna jazz club Porgy & Bess.
has undertaken a host of band projects with Harry Pepl, Dino Saluzzi, Ray Anderson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Lee Konitz
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2012 · Review
AllMusic (US-Musikdatenbank mit Kritiken, gegründet 1991): AllMusic Review: „Volver“
Scott Yanow
Capsule review in AllMusic, the US music database with reviews founded in 1991, of the ECM album “Volver” by the quintet of Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi, recorded in October 1986 at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, Germany, with Harry Pepl on guitar, Furio Di Castri on bass and Bruce Ditmas on drums. The US jazz critic Scott Yanow finds that Rava’s introverted yet inwardly passionate playing matches Saluzzi’s modern tangos well; the result is fairly accessible yet still exploratory, “An intriguing set”. AllMusic gives it 3 out of 5 stars. The review is undated and has been online since 2012 at the latest; the track list gives Pepl’s “Ballantine for Valentine” as track 5.
Rava’s introverted yet inwardly passionate playing matches well with Saluzzi’s modern tangos, and the results are fairly accessible yet still exploratory.
On the ECM album “Volver” (recorded in 1986) by the quintet of Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi, on which Harry Pepl plays guitar and is represented by his piece “Ballantine for Valentine”
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November 2012 · Report · IT
Jazzit, no. 73: „Sketches of Rava“, Kapitel „Tra ECM e Soul Note“, Abschnitt „Volver“
Luciano Vanni
Cover story “Sketches of Rava” in the Italian jazz magazine Jazzit on the trumpeter Enrico Rava, written by Luciano Vanni, the magazine’s director according to the masthead. In the chapter on the years 1975 to 1991, the section “Volver” tells how in October 1986, after five years, Rava recorded again for ECM, the renowned European jazz label, as co-leader alongside the Argentine bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi. Vanni names Furio Di Castri (double bass), Bruce Ditmas (drums) and Harry Pepl (guitar) as the members of the quintet; the album was released two years later under the title “Volver”.
a quintet featuring Furio Di Castri on double bass, Bruce Ditmas on drums and Harry Pepl on guitar
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18 December 2019 · Review · IT
Tracce di Jazz (Blog): „Ritornare a ….”Volver”“
andbar
Album review on the Italian jazz blog Tracce di Jazz (“From jazz-fans to jazz-fans”). The author, andbar, came across a second-hand copy of “Volver”, the album recorded in 1986 by the Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and the Argentine bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi for the renowned European jazz label ECM, with Harry Pepl (guitar), Furio Di Castri (double bass) and Bruce Ditmas (drums). He finds the record somewhat underrated and worth rediscovering. For him the opening track, “Le but du souffle”, begins with a quiet soliloquy on electric guitar; he calls “Tempos de ausencias” a distillation of Argentine melody only lightly flecked by Pepl’s guitar. In Pepl’s composition “Ballantine for Valentine” he hears a free outburst in the spirit of Ornette Coleman, the pioneer of free jazz, which breaks up the calm prevailing mood of the record and widens its horizons. On Sunday, 22 December 2019 a second author on the blog replied with Rava’s own recollection of the recording session.
“Tempos de ausencias”, a distillation of Argentine melody only lightly flecked by Pepl’s guitar
andbar on the Italian jazz blog Tracce di Jazz about “Tempos de ausencias” on “Volver”, the ECM album recorded in 1986 by Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi with Pepl on guitar
“Ballantine for Valentine”, an Ornette-style free outburst that breaks up the calm moods prevailing on the record
andbar on Pepl’s composition “Ballantine for Valentine”, his only piece on “Volver”; “ornettiano” alludes to Ornette Coleman, the pioneer of free jazz
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22 December 2019 · Report · IT
Tracce di Jazz (Blog): „L’AVVOCATO DEL DIAVOLO…..“
milton56
Reply on the same Italian jazz blog to the review of “Volver” published on Wednesday, 18 December 2019. Taking the part of the “devil’s advocate”, as the title has it, the author milton56 sets against his colleague’s enthusiasm the story of how the album came about, as he had heard it about a month earlier from the Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava himself. He explicitly retells it from memory: a second-hand recollection, not a studio log. According to this account, the 1986 session was slow to get going because the Argentine bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi and the American drummer Bruce Ditmas had very different ideas about accompaniment and volume, and Rava mediated. In a deadlocked silence Harry Pepl is said to have struck a chord at random, just to break the silence. The producer Manfred Eicher, founder of the renowned European jazz label ECM, came into the studio full of enthusiasm and saw in it the starting point from which the band could at last develop something; Pepl himself could not even vaguely remember the chord. Rava, according to this recollection, described the work on the record as laborious. The author concludes that the album nevertheless found its way to listeners.
The guitarist Pepl strikes a chord at random, just to break the icy silence.
From a story told by Enrico Rava about the stalled recording session for “Volver” in 1986, explicitly retold from memory by the blogger milton56; a second-hand recollection
As if on purpose, the Austrian cannot even vaguely remember what had come out of his instrument by chance……
Punchline of the same story: the producer Manfred Eicher had seen in Pepl’s chance chord the starting point for the recording; a second-hand recollection