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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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10 June 1984 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Plus“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Sunday, 10 June 1984, according to a France Musique broadcast of the following year at the jazz festival in Angoulême, France: Michel Portal Plus with Michel Portal (alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet), Harry Sokal (tenor saxophone), Joachim Kühn (piano, keyboards), Harry Pepl (guitar), Claude Barthélemy (electric bass), Jean-Paul Celea and Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Daniel Humair (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion), 1 hour 24 minutes. Besides pieces by Portal, Kühn and Sokal the programme lists a title “Pepl's theme” by Harry Pepl. Record PHY14005306 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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23 September 1984 · Other · DE
steirischer herbst, festival archive (online): „Michel Portal Unit featuring Harry Pepl“
Entry in the archive of the steirischer herbst festival on the guest performance on Sunday, 23 September 1984, in the former slaughterhouse in Graz, Austria, in the “Falso Loco” series, with Daniel Humair, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Joachim Kühn, George Lewis, Harry Pepl and Michel Portal.
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8 July 1985 · Radio · FR
France Musique, „Jazz vivant“ (broadcast listed in the INA catalogue): „Extraits de concerts de Michel Portal“
André Francis (production and presentation)
Broadcast by France Musique, the music station of Radio France, on Monday, 8 July 1985, at 8.05 pm in the series “Jazz vivant” (26 minutes), devoted to Michel Portal. The first part presents “Mazurka” and “Angola” from the concert by Michel Portal Plus with Harry Pepl at the jazz festival in Angoulême, France, on 10 June 1984, the second a concert by Portal at the Théâtre Musical de Paris (Châtelet) on 30 October 1984 without Pepl. Record PHY11002999 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the broadcast can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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7 March 1986 · Other · FR
Banlieues Bleues, festival archive (online): Konzert des 3. Festivals: Portal, DeJohnette, Cinelu, Jenny-Clark, Pepl
Entry in the online archive of Banlieues Bleues, the jazz festival in the Seine-Saint-Denis département near Paris (France), for the concert on Friday, 7 March 1986, at the Salle des fêtes in Montreuil: Michel Portal (reeds), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Mino Cinelu (percussion), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass) and Harry Pepl (guitar). The archive confirms that Cinelu also played in the concert, not only at the rehearsals. Between 1984 and 1990 it is the only evening with Pepl in the festival's archive.
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10 March 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Unit“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Monday, 10 March 1986, three days after the Banlieues Bleues festival; the record does not name the venue. The Michel Portal Unit plays with Michel Portal (soprano and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Harry Pepl (guitar), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Mino Cinelu (percussion, synthesizer), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Jean Schwartz (percussion), 1 hour 48 minutes. The track list names “Radl Bremser pastor” and “Desauge + maulwurfs no forte”, according to Daniel Pepl two pieces each, played in direct succession or segueing into each other: Pepl’s “Radlbremser” with Portal’s “Pastor” and Pepl’s “Das Auge des Maulwurfs” with Portal’s “No Forte”, plus “Halley's comet right blue blues”. Record PHY14005622 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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30 May 1987 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Le temps du jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Unit 87“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Saturday, 30 May 1987, at the Amiens jazz festival, the evening of the live album “Men's Land”: Michel Portal, Dave Liebman (soprano saxophone), Harry Pepl (guitar), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Mino Cinelu (percussion), 1 hour 18 minutes. The recording is longer than the album: besides “Ahmad the terrible”, “Easy” and “Pastor” the record lists a trio improvisation, “Changement” by Joachim Kühn, “Bandolina”, “Jack” and a piece “Comète” by Harry Pepl, according to Daniel Pepl “Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”, which is not on “Men's Land”. Record PHY14005763 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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1 November 1987 · Radio · FR
France Musique, „Jazz vivant“ (broadcast listed in the INA catalogue): „Festival Le Temps du Jazz : extraits du concert du multi-instrumentiste Michel Portal“
André Francis (production and presentation)
Broadcast by France Musique on Sunday, 1 November 1987, at 1.07 pm in the series “Jazz vivant” (52 minutes, nationwide): excerpts from the concert of Michel Portal’s “Sextet Unit” on 30 May 1987 at the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens during the festival “Le Temps du Jazz”, with Dave Liebman, Jack DeJohnette, Mino Cinelu, Harry Pepl and Jean-François Jenny-Clark: “Ahmad the terrible”, a trio improvisation, “Changement” and “Easy”. Record PHY11005821 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the broadcast can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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1 April 2000 · Programme booklet · DE
Sammlung Essl, programme Schömer-Haus: Studio Percussion graz: Xenakis, Pepl, Hölszky
Programme of the concert by Studio Percussion graz under Günter Meinhart at the Schömer-Haus of the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg on 1 April 2000, with works by Iannis Xenakis and Adriana Hölszky and the world premiere of Pepl's “Zeitraffer”. With a note on the work by Pepl and a short biography covering his teaching in Graz, the International Jazz Academy in St. Pölten and the Lower Austrian Jazz Academy in Zeillern. The biography also mentions seminars at the Hamburg music university, the promotion prize (1991) and the honorary prize (1998) of the State of Lower Austria, the quarterly list of the German Record Critics’ Award for the ECM albums of 1983 and 1988, awards from French record critics for “Turbulence” and “Men’s Land” with Michel Portal, festivals in Leverkusen, Ancona and Le Mans, and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
“Le Monde” called Pepl a giant of improvisation.
Art has the task not merely to negate the tendencies of the time, but also to sharpen them.
From his text on “Zeitraffer” for the programme “Einkreisung” at the Essl Collection, a private museum of contemporary art in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, 2000
Harry Pepl