Press on Harry Sokal
What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl and Harry Sokal: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source.
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15 March 2024 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur): „Jazz-Saxofonist Harry Sokal wird 70: „Bin musikalisch ein Chamäleon““
APA (wm/luw)
Agency report on the 70th birthday of the saxophonist Harry Sokal, a founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. In the list of musicians Sokal has played with, Harry Pepl appears alongside Art Blakey, Dave Holland, Michel Portal, Friedrich Gulda and Joe Zawinul. The report also ran on kleinezeitung.at, sn.at, tt.com, vienna.at and other portals.
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2011 · Portrait
musicexport.at: „Harry Sokal“ (Porträt)
Michael Ternai
Portrait of the saxophonist Harry Sokal for the Austrian music export office. Among his partners it names Harry Pepl, Daniel Humair, Gene Jackson, Andy McKee and Idris Muhammad.
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24 December 1996 · Report · DE
Wiener Zeitung (p. 4, column „Jazzignal“): „Swinging Christmas!“
Christian Rösner
Christmas survey among Austrian jazz musicians about their music for Christmas Eve, among them Peter Legat, Andy Manndorff, Harry Sokal, Art Farmer and Christian Muthspiel. The „Supergitarrero“ [“super guitarist”] Pepl spontaneously answers “Silent Night” and also names Sting, Jack DeJohnette, Weather Report and classical music.
What do I listen to at Christmas? Well, Silent Night!
His spontaneous answer to a Christmas survey of jazz musicians by the Wiener Zeitung, a Vienna daily, in 1996; he also named Sting, Jack DeJohnette, Weather Report and classical music
Harry Pepl
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13 November 1992 · Report · DE
Der Standard (Seite A9): „Bauernbub spielt im Sweet Basil“
Johann Skocek
Record column on the trombonist Paul Zauner and his Blue Brass Connection. In passing, Skocek reports that a few weeks earlier Zauner had recorded two albums in New York with a new, more contemporary band including Harry Pepl and Harry Sokal.
That is yet another new band, in which the Austrians Harry Pepl and Harry Sokal, among others, are fiddling along.
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September 1988 · Programme booklet · DE
Jazz Festival Willisau, Programmheft 1988: „Jazz in Willisau: Coming Dates“
On p. 110, under “Jazz in Willisau: Coming Dates”, the programme of the 14th Jazz Festival Willisau (canton of Lucerne, Switzerland) of 1 to 4 September 1988 announces a double concert by Airmail (Harry Pepl, Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond, Wolfgang Reisinger) and Depart (Harry Sokal, Heiri Känzig, Jojo Meyer) for Saturday, 3 December 1988, at 8 p.m. at the Mohren. According to the concert list, poster and press documentation of the Willisau Jazz Archive, the Ray Anderson Quartet played that evening; whether Air Mail's concert was cancelled or postponed is not known.
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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. 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.