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9 November 2021 · Review · FR
Jazz Magazine (online): „Nevers assis le matin, debout le soir“
Franck Bergerot
Festival report by Franck Bergerot in Jazz Magazine, the French jazz magazine, from the D'Jazz Nevers festival (Burgundy, France).
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The duo of Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (guitar) played its programme “Les heures propices”, songs by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, at noon on a Monday, probably on 8 November 2021. It included a piece by Harry Pepl, whom Bergerot honours as “the late Austrian jazz guitarist” who knew that melodic freshness and harmonic candour.
a borrowing from the late Austrian jazz guitarist Harry Pepl (who knew that melodic freshness, that harmonic candour and its disarming anachronisms)
The French jazz critic Franck Bergerot on a piece by Pepl in “Les heures propices”, the programme of the duo Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (songs by the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s), at the D'Jazz Nevers festival in Nevers, France, in 2021
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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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28 April 2008 · Radio · FR
France Musique, „Le jazz, probablement“ (broadcast listed in the INA catalogue): „Concert donné le 24 août 2007 au festival de Saalfelden“
Xavier Prévost (production and presentation)
Broadcast by France Musique in the night to Monday, 28 April 2008, in the series “Le jazz, probablement”: the main part is a concert by the trio Streaming (Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis) at the Saalfelden jazz festival, Austria, on 24 August 2007, which has no connection with Pepl. In the accompanying selection of new releases Xavier Prévost played “Air, Love & Vitamins” from the album “Against The Wind” by the Christian Muthspiel Trio (EmArcy, 2007) with music by Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl. Record 3437937.001 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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27 November 2007 · Radio · FR
France Musique, „Un mardi idéal“ (broadcast listed in the INA catalogue): „Musique vivante“
Arièle Butaux (production and presentation)
Live broadcast by France Musique on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, from 8 to 10 pm, with an audience in the Studio Charles Trenet of the Maison de Radio France in Paris: among other guests, the trio of Jean-Paul Celea (double bass), François Couturier (piano) and Daniel Humair (drums), which released the album “Tryptic” the same year, played Harry Pepl’s “Tintenfisch Inki”, among other pieces. Record 3290738.001 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 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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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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13 January 1987 · Television · FR
FR3, „Le Temps du jazz“ (broadcast listed in the INA catalogue): „Loose tubes et air mail“
Jean de Nesle (direction)
Television programme by FR3, the French regional television of the time, in its Nord-Pas-de-Calais service on Tuesday, 13 January 1987, in the series “Le Temps du jazz” (27 minutes): recordings from the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens with the British big band Loose Tubes and with Air Mail, playing Pepl’s “The Eye of the Groundhog”. The record does not give the recording date; Air Mail played at the Amiens jazz festival in May 1986. Record RCC02013106 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the programme can only be viewed on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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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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July 1986 · Review · FR
Jazz Hot, no. 432: „Amiens : le temps du jazz“
Franck Bergerot
Festival report by Franck Bergerot in the July/August issue of Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, on the “Le temps du jazz” festival in Amiens (France) from 13 to 24 May 1986, at which the festival also launched its record label, Label Bleu.
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Under the heading “Coup de chaleur” (roughly: a heatwave) he describes Air Mail's concert: fired up by Wolfgang Puschnig, driven by Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger, shaken up by an utterly unexpected Harry Pepl. To Bergerot it sounded as if Pepl wanted to pay tribute to the guitarist Joseph Dejean, who had died ten years earlier; in his playing he found again the thread of a history of the guitar that he had thought lost. The music was free, fresh, uninhibited and full of energy, and he had not enjoyed himself so much in a long time. The report gives no date for the concert. Thirty-five years later Bergerot paid tribute to Pepl again in Jazz Magazine, as “the late Austrian jazz guitarist”.
Air Mail, fired up by Wolfgang Puschnig, driven by the rhythm section of Mike Richmond / Wolfgang Reisinger and shaken up by an utterly unexpected Harry Pepl.
Franck Bergerot in Jazz Hot on Air Mail's concert at the “Le temps du jazz” festival in Amiens, France, in May 1986, under the heading “Coup de chaleur” (roughly: a heatwave)
There I found again the thread of a history of the guitar that I feared I had lost for good.
Franck Bergerot on Pepl's guitar playing at Air Mail's concert in Amiens, France, in May 1986; just before, he writes that had Pepl wanted to pay tribute to the guitarist Joseph Dejean, who had died ten years earlier, he could not have gone about it any differently
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July 1986 · Review · FR
Jazz Hot, no. 432: „Du jazz sous les pommiers“
Alain Guerrini
Festival report by Alain Guerrini in the July/August issue of Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, on the 5th Jazz sous les pommiers in Coutances (Normandy, France) from 3 to 10 May 1986. On the closing night, at the theatre, Guerrini discovered Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig, Harry Pepl, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger as “un groupe prodigieux”, a prodigious group: from the Berlin ballad to hard rock, their music brought almost a century of music history back to life. As the most telling piece he names “Halley Comet”, probably Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”. The Eddy Louiss Big Band closed the evening. Jazz Hot names Puschnig as the band's leader; according to Daniel Pepl, Air Mail had no leader, and the statement is an error in the report. Guerrini gives 10 p.m. as the starting time, the festival archive 9 p.m.
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There I discovered a prodigious group: Air Mail
Alain Guerrini in Jazz Hot on the closing night of the Jazz sous les pommiers festival in Coutances, France, on Saturday, 10 May 1986, according to the festival programme, Air Mail's first concert in France
“Halley Comet” is the most telling piece of this cosmic quartet.
Alain Guerrini on Air Mail's concert in Coutances, France, in May 1986; “Halley Comet” is probably Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”, later the title track of Air Mail's album “Light Blues” (1988)
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15 May 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert de jazz : [émission du 00/00/00]“
André Francis (production)
Combined programme by Radio France, France’s public radio broadcaster, of three concert recordings, which the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television, dates to Thursday, 15 May 1986, 3 hours 39 minutes in all.
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It opens with the trio of the trombonist Ray Anderson with Mark Helias (double bass) and Gerry Hemingway (drums), according to the record “enregistré le 15 mai 1986 à Paris” (recorded in Paris on 15 May 1986). Then come Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig (flute, alto saxophone, oboe), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond (double bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums), 1 hour 22 minutes, and finally the Orchestre National de Jazz, France’s national jazz orchestra, under François Jeanneau. The combined record names Paris as the venue only for Ray Anderson’s trio; Air Mail’s track list is in the separate record for this part (PHY14005647). The chronology gives Wednesday, 14 May, for Air Mail’s concert at the Paris club New Morning; whether the recording comes from that evening is open. Record PHY11006057_00 in the INA catalogue; the programme can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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15 May 1986 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert de Air Mail“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Thursday, 15 May 1986: Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig (flute, alto saxophone, oboe), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond (double bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums), 1 hour 22 minutes.
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The track list names Pepl’s “Mulwolf” (according to Daniel Pepl “Das Auge des Maulwurfs”), “Light blue blues” (Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues), “The man in the old sea” and “Bike breaker” (Radlbremser), plus “Nudnicks” and “A prayer for peace”. The combined record for the same day (PHY11006057_00) places Air Mail alongside the trio of Ray Anderson, “enregistré le 15 mai 1986 à Paris” (recorded in Paris on 15 May 1986), and the Orchestre National de Jazz under François Jeanneau. The chronology gives Wednesday, 14 May, for the concert at the Paris club New Morning; whether it is the same evening is open. Record PHY14005647 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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10 May 1986 · Programme booklet · FR
Jazz sous les pommiers, festival archive (online): „Air Mail“ (Programm der 5. Ausgabe, Samstag, 10. Mai, 21 Uhr, Théâtre)
Entry in the online archive of Jazz sous les pommiers, the jazz festival in Coutances (Normandy, France), for its 5th edition from 3 to 10 May 1986: Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig (saxophone), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond (double bass) and Wolfgang Reisinger (drums) plays on the closing night, Saturday, 10 May, at 9 p.m. at the theatre, on the same evening as the Eddy Louiss Big Band and Blue Lips. The programme text introduces the band as “two Viennese” from the Vienna Art Orchestra, a prestigious bassist from the USA and Pepl as the “new star” of guitar-mad jazz fans, and announces Air Mail's first concert in France.
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That is Air Mail, which will touch down in Coutances for its first concert in France.
Programme text of the Jazz sous les pommiers festival for Air Mail's concert on 10 May 1986; “se poser” means to land, in keeping with the band's name Air Mail
the new star of the “guitar-mad jazz fans”
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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27 October 1984 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Concert de jazz : [émission du 00/00/00]“
André Francis (production)
Combined programme by Radio France, France’s public radio broadcaster, from the Festival de Jazz de Paris on Saturday, 27 October 1984, with three concert recordings, 3 hours 9 minutes in all.
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It opens with the Compagnie Lubat around Bernard Lubat (piano, percussion, drums, synthesiser), 55 minutes. Then come Tenor Madness with Daniel Humair (drums), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Harry Pepl (guitar), Joachim Kühn (piano, keyboards) and the tenor saxophonists François Jeanneau, Harry Sokal and Larry Schneider, 1 hour 20 minutes, and finally the quartet of the tenor saxophonist Jean-Louis Chautemps with Robert Persi (keyboards), Rémy Dall'Anese (electric bass) and André Ceccarelli (drums), 55 minutes. Pepl plays only in the Tenor Madness part; its track list is in the separate record for this part (PHY13030614). Record PHY13030595_00 in the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television; the programme can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.
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27 October 1984 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Festival de Jazz de Paris : Concert du Tenor Madness“
André Francis (production)
Concert recording by Radio France of Saturday, 27 October 1984, at the Festival de Jazz de Paris: Tenor Madness with Daniel Humair (drums), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double bass), Harry Pepl (guitar), Joachim Kühn (piano, keyboards) and the tenor saxophonists François Jeanneau, Harry Sokal and Larry Schneider, 1 hour 20 minutes, with pieces by Humair, Kühn, Jeanneau and Sokal. The combined record for the same evening (PHY13030595_00) also includes the Compagnie Lubat and the quartet of Jean-Louis Chautemps. Record PHY13030614 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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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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30 May 1983 · Radio · FR
Radio France, „Concert de jazz“ (live recording, im INA-Katalog): „Jazz au Théâtre de l'Atelier : Concert du Daniel HUMAIR and Friends“
André Francis (production)
The INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), the archive of French radio and television, lists a concert recording by Radio France of Monday, 30 May 1983, from the series “Jazz au Théâtre de l'Atelier” at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris, France: “Daniel Humair and Friends” with Daniel Humair (drums), Eric Le Lann (trumpet), Harry Sokal (alto saxophone), Joachim Kühn (piano), Werner Pirchner (vibraphone), Harry Pepl (guitar), Mike Richmond and Dave Holland (double bass), 2 hours 38 minutes. The programme includes pieces by Kühn, Pirchner, Sokal, Holland, Sonny Rollins and Enrico Pieranunzi and Pepl’s “Good-bye, Baby Post” (in the record “Goodbye Baby FOST”). The record evidently swaps the instruments, listing Pepl on vibraphone and percussion and Pirchner on guitar. Record PHY14005123; the recording can only be heard on site at the INAthèque, which does not provide copies.