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10 June 2022 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Nachruf auf Wolfgang Reisinger“
Andreas Felber (Gestaltung)
Programme on the death of the drummer Wolfgang Reisinger, who died unexpectedly in Vienna on Wednesday, 8 June 2022. Felber calls him Austria’s most internationally renowned jazz drummer and recalls his ensembles of the 1980s, among them Air Mail with Harry Pepl and Wolfgang Puschnig, the Vienna Art Orchestra and his work in France.
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25 September 2020 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume Nachtausgabe: „Der unvergessene Jazzgitarrist Harry Pepl“
Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)
Programme for his 75th birthday on 10 September 2020, broadcast on Friday, 25 September 2020, at 22:25 and repeated on 26 September 2020 at 00:05. Guests include the music producer Daniel Pepl, the drummer Wolfgang Reisinger and the pianist Anna Maurer, who is working on a solo piano album of Pepl’s compositions. According to the running order, recorded statements by Wolfgang Muthspiel and Guido Jesenzky on Harry Pepl as musician and as teacher were added. The music ranged from the Austrian Evergreens (1960) via Benny Goodman, the Jazzzwio, Air Mail, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava and the Kronos Quartet to the Fullmax releases of 2015 and 2020. Muthspiel requested “The Day We Know Paul Desmond Is Gone”, Jesenzky “Germ in A” (both Jazzzwio); Anna Maurer contributed her version of “Air, Love & Vitamins” (2020). Director: Daniela Fietzek, sound engineer: Georg Janser.
His Austrian-American quartet Airmail was probably one of the best jazz groups of Austrian provenance.
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26 October 2015 · Radio · DE
Ö1, Spielräume Spezial: „Heimat bis Du großer...“ (Würdigung von Harry Pepl zum Nationalfeiertag)
Klaus Wienerroither (Gestaltung)
Programme for the Austrian National Day, Monday, 26 October 2015, 5.10 pm, commemorating the guitarist and composer almost ten years after Pepl’s death. The title alludes to the line „Heimat bist du großer Söhne“ [“Homeland of great sons”] of the Austrian national anthem; the programme opens with “In this case it really is one of the sons” and calls Air Mail “probably one of the best jazz groups of Austrian origin”. Playlist: Air Mail with “Shifting People” and “The Halley’s Comet / Light Blue Blues”, “Salt and Pepl” with the ORF Big Band under Richard Österreicher, “Harry Pepl’s Blues” with Benny Goodman, “Against The Wind” live with the Jazzzwio, “Eastern Island Ears” with Dave Liebman and Wolfgang Reisinger, a part of “Anspannen, Überspannen, Abspannen” with STUDIO PERCUSSION graz, Peter Alexander’s “Sag’ mir quando, sag’ mir wann” (Pepl as studio guitarist) and finally “Air, Love & Vitamins” with Werner Pirchner and Jack DeJohnette.
The tribute to an individualist.
In this case it really is one of the sons.
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13 March 2007 · Radio · DE
Deutschlandfunk, Nachtradio (Playlist): „Milestones - Harry Pepl“ (Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte)
Playlist of a late-night radio programme on 13 March 2007 at 01:05, with “Live in Montreux 81”, the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) album with Pirchner and DeJohnette and Air Mail’s “Light Blues”. It shows Pepl as an entry in a German series on classics of jazz history.
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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. 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. 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.