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14 December 2025 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 47, Aviso): „Im Dialog mit Harry Pepl“
Listing for the open music evening at the Stockwerk in Graz on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 8 pm: a quartet plays live with previously unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period.
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The listing documents the concert date, which the reports of 18 December do not give.
An intense musical dialogue with the “giant of improvisation”.
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26 November 2025 · Report · DE
Fullmax Recordings (Website): Beitrag zum Österreichischen Jazzpreis 2025, Best Album
Post on the album “Live” taking 2nd place in the Best Album category at the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria).
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The Jazz Academy consists of 149 experts, there were over 170 submissions and a seven-member expert jury; the award ceremony took place at Casino Velden.
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November 2025 · Report · DE
ORF Kärnten (Online): Bericht über den Österreichischen Jazzpreis 2025
Report on the presentation of the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria) at Casino Velden, with the ranking in the Best Album category: Kenji Herbert Trio ahead of Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band and the Tobias Meissl Trio.
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27 October 2025 · Report · DE
mica music austria (musicaustria.at): „Österreichischer Jazzpreis 2025: Die Gewinner*innen stehen fest!“
Report on the announcement of the winners on Monday, 27 October 2025, four weeks before the gala in Velden: in the Best Album category, “Live” by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band takes second place behind the Kenji Herbert Trio.
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The Austrian Music Council (27 October 2025) and the AKM (29 October 2025) published the same ranking.
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27 September 2025 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 38, culture): „Besondere Hörerfahrung“
Michaela Reichart
Preview of the autumn programme of Ute Pinter’s Graz concert series open music, now in its 25th year.
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Besides Studio Dan and the Darius Jones Trio, an evening for Harry Pepl was already fixed for December 2025: the Single Swinger Band at the Stockwerk on 16 December. mica (Austrian music information centre) spoke on 23 September 2025 of the „doppelten Harry-Pepl-Gedenkjahr“ [“double Harry Pepl commemorative year”].
a project dedicated to Harry Pepl, who died in 2005
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10 December 2024 · Report
JazzDanmark: „DMA Jazz 2024 in Store VEGA: The winners are here!“
Report on the presentation of the Danish Music Awards Jazz (Danish jazz awards) 2024 at Store VEGA in Copenhagen.
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The album “Live at H15 Studio” by the Kresten Osgood Quintet (ILK Music), on which Pepl’s piece “The Halleys Comet - Light Blue Blues” can be heard, was named Jazz Release of the Year. The text itself does not mention Pepl.
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12 April 2024 · Report
European Jazz Masters Of The Past (Blog): „European Jazz Masters Of The Past #3: Herbert Joos“
Wulf Müller
Biographical essay on Herbert Joos. Towards the end of the 1980s Joos went into the studio with Harry Pepl and Jon Christensen to record “Cracked Mirrors”, which was released in 1988 to critical acclaim.
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he went into the studio with Austrian guitar master Harry Pepl and Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen to record ‘Cracked Mirrors’
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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.
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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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2 February 2024 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 12, Niederösterreich-Beilage): „Mit Vielseitigkeit in einen jazzigen Frühling“
Teresa Sturm
Preview of the spring programme of the Krems association “That’s Jazz” at the Salzstadl. On 13 April 2024, in cooperation with musik.aktuell, the quartet of the vibraphonist Flip Philipp plays the music of Werner Pirchner and his Zwio partner Harry Pepl there.
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to portray the quirky world of Werner Pirchner and his legendary “Zwio” partner Harry Pepl
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4 October 2023 · Report · DE
NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (p. 94): „Legende Harry Pepl zurück auf Bühne“
Franz Pfeffer
Report with photo on the Single Swinger Band’s performance at the Open Inn Door Day on Saturday, 30 September 2023, in the sparkasse.event.raum of the Syrnau cultural association in Zwettl, admission free.
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The quartet played with previously unreleased recordings; the picture shows the hosts Michaela and Erwin Schierhuber with Clemens Salesny, Valentin Duit, the sound engineer Markus Wallner and Andi Schreiber.
the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005 returned to the stage
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29 September 2023 · Report · DE
noe.ORF.at (Online): „Bühnenwirtshäuser öffnen im ganzen Land“
Preview of the first “Open Inn Door Day” of the Lower Austrian stage inns on Saturday, 30 September 2023, with free admission at ten venues.
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Under the subheading „Unveröffentlichte Klänge von Jazz-Gitarrist Pepl“ [“Unreleased sounds by jazz guitarist Pepl”] it announces the Single Swinger Band’s evening at the Syrnau in Zwettl. The provincial press release went out via APA-OTS on 28 September 2023 (OTS0063).
“The (lonely) single swinger band” improvises over unreleased recordings from the last creative period of the jazz guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005.
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12 September 2023 · Report · DE
meinbezirk.at: „Tini Kainrath & Peter Havlicek Duo: „Wia a rode Rosn““
Announcement of a concert by the duo of Tini Kainrath (vocals) and Peter Havlicek (guitar, contraguitar).
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The text introduces Havlicek as a pupil of Harry Pepl who went on to share the stage with André Heller, Michael Heltau, Hansi Lang and Trude Mally. The same text appeared on badvoeslau.at on 28 November 2024.
Trained by Harry Pepl, one of the wildest on the guitar
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25 June 2021 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 43, Tagesaviso): „Musik der Harry Pepl’s Band“
Listing for the evening on 26 June 2021, 7.30 pm, at the Bambergsaal in Villach: a quartet plays with previously unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period, the music of “Harry Pepl’s Lonely Single Swinger Band”.
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23 June 2021 · Report · DE
MeinBezirk Kärnten (p. 36, Top-Tipps der Woche): „Harry Pepl (tape) & Band“
Preview of the concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band on Saturday, 26 June 2021, at the Bambergsaal in Villach (8 pm according to MeinBezirk, 7.30 pm according to the Kleine Zeitung and ORF Teletext).
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The quartet around Clemens Salesny plays with unreleased recordings from Pepl’s last creative period (1996 to 2005); because of the Covid restrictions 110 listeners were admitted. Recordings from this evening appear on the album “Live”.
the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005
If you close your eyes, it is almost as if Harry Pepl were still on stage
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7 April 2021 · Report · DE
Augustin (p. 25, art.ist.in): „In memoriam Werner Pirchner“
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Short commemorative article in the Viennese street paper on the 20th anniversary of Werner Pirchner’s death, pointing to a concert by Ernst Kovacic and friends at the Sargfabrik on 15 April 2021. It recalls that Pirchner ran the Jazzzwio with Harry Pepl for years, sometimes extended by the bassist Adelhard Roidinger to Austria Drei.
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Together with the guitarist Harry Pepl, the vibraphonist ran the JazzZwio for years, sometimes joined by the bassist Adelhard Roidinger to form Austria Drei.
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18 June 2020 · Report · FR
FIP (Radio France): „„Les heures propices“ et majestueuses de Franck Tortiller“
Catherine Carette
Article by the Paris radio station FIP on the duo album “Les heures propices” by Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald Michel (guitar), released on 19 June 2020 on MCO.
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Even before the studio sessions, the duo presented Pepl’s piece “Air, Love and Vitamins” during lockdown, according to FIP a nod to the Vienna Art Orchestra and to Christian Muthspiel. The video is embedded.
the duo was already unveiling this piece by the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl, a nod to the Vienna Art Orchestra and to Christian Muthspiel
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11 June 2020 · Report · DE
radiohoerer.info: „Harry Pepls ‚Hip Jargon‘ plus Werner Pirchner anno 1975“
Music tip on the blog radiohoerer.info (radio and media tips for new music, jazz and audio) for the programme “In Concert” on Ö1, the cultural radio station of the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster), on 5 June 2020. The post reproduces Ö1's programme text (presented by Helmut Jasbar): a recording from the ORF radio archive captures Pepl's trio Hip Jargon with Wayne Darling (double bass) and Fritz Ozmec (drums) on 25 September 1975 in the Large Broadcasting Hall of the Funkhaus in Vienna, Austria, with Werner Pirchner as guest on vibraphone. This lets Hip Jargon be heard as the nucleus of the Jazzzwio. The blog's playlist names three joint pieces by Pepl and Pirchner, among them “Pfifferling” and “Down At The Ticky Toe”; titles and durations differ from the Ö1 programme page, which is authoritative.
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“Free jazz for connoisseurs” was what a critic in the Salzburger Volksblatt, a daily newspaper in Salzburg, Austria, called it at the time.
the unpolished gem of a concert on 25 September 1975 in the Large Broadcasting Hall of the Vienna Funkhaus, the ORF's broadcasting house
Free jazz for connoisseurs
Verdict of a critic of the Salzburger Volksblatt, a daily newspaper in Salzburg, Austria, on Pepl's trio Hip Jargon around 1975, when Werner Pirchner joined as a guest; this collaboration grew into the Jazzzwio
Kritiker des Salzburger Volksblatts
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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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13 February 2020 · Report · DE
Tiroler Tageszeitung (p. 12, Kultur & Medien): „Verwurzelt, wie von Flora gezeichnet“
Ursula Strohal
Round-table conversation for Werner Pirchner’s 80th birthday with Elfie Pirchner, who looks after her husband’s estate, and the composer Thomas Larcher.
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Among Pirchner’s early companions and supporters the article names Harry Pepl, with whom the vibraphonist formed a duo.
of course the guitarist Harry Pepl, with whom Pirchner became an untamed duo
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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.
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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
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14 November 2018 · Report · DE
MeinBezirk Kärnten: „Kärnten Premiere im Brauhaus Breznik“
Announcement of the concert on Thursday, 15 November 2018, at the Brauhaus Breznik in Bleiburg as one of the most interesting projects of the musical autumn.
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Pepl played at the 1st Musikfest Bleiburg in 1983; 35 years later the “giant of improvisation” returns to Bleiburg's stage.
In 1983 Harry Pepl, the Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005, played at the 1st Musikfest Bleiburg.
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7 November 2018 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung: „Avancierte Landvermessung“
Michael Tschida
Preview of the 27th Austrian Soundcheck in Graz: the (Lonely) Single Swinger Band around Clemens Salesny recalls the guitar grandmaster Harry Pepl, who died in 2005, by means of tapes on 13 November.
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recalls the guitar grandmaster Harry Pepl, who died in 2005, by means of tapes
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18 October 2018 · Report · DE
kleinezeitung.at (Völkermarkt): „KIB präsentiert zum 35er ambitioniertes Herbstprogramm“
Hubert Budai
Autumn programme of the Kulturinitiative Bleiburg: on 15 November 2018 Harry Pepl is remembered at the Brauhaus Breznik; the quartet of the Single Swinger Band (Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andi Schreiber, Valentin Duit) interacts with his unreleased recordings. A shorter version appeared in the print edition (Kleine Zeitung, Völkermarkt, p. 27).
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the world-class master of the jazz guitar and composer Harry Pepl, who died in 2005
improvise posthumously with the Austrian music legend, as it were
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11 January 2018 · Report · DE
OÖ Nachrichten: „Eine Zentrale der Jazz-Musik“
On the closing of the Kasper-Keller in Linz (Café Jentschke): its 35 years as a hub of jazz began on 22 November 1982 with the “Zwio” of Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl, booked by the landlord Hans Peter Kasper. A longer version appeared on nachrichten.at.
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For this evening the landlord and passionate jazz connoisseur Hans Peter Kasper booked “Zwio”, the duo of the Tyrolean composer and multi-instrumentalist Werner Pirchner and the Viennese guitarist Harry Pepl.
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10 October 2017 · Report · DE
Ö1 (oe1.orf.at, article): „Der Gratwanderer Werner Pirchner“
Article on Werner Pirchner for the tenth anniversary of his death, shown on the page with the date 10 October 2017 but referring in the text to 10 August 2011. It names the Jazz-Zwio with Harry Pepl as a stage that also made Pirchner known in the international jazz scene; the focus is on Pirchner.
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together with Harry Pepl in the legendary JazzZwio
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20 September 2017 · Report · DE
Ö1 (oe1.orf.at, article): „Der Musiker Werner Pirchner“
Short portrait of Werner Pirchner (13 February 1940 to 10 August 2001) as a jazz musician and composer.
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It lists the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio, founded in 1975, with its appearances until the mid-1980s, among others in Velden, Montreux and Saalfelden; the focus is on Pirchner.
With the guitarist Harry Pepl he founded the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio in 1975
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8 April 2017 · Report · DE
Ö1 (oe1.orf.at, article): „Pirchner und Pepl“ (Muthspiel Trio spielt „Against the Wind“)
Haide Tenner (Gesprächspartnerin)
Item on the CD “Against the Wind”, on which the Christian Muthspiel Trio plays works by Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner.
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In conversation with Haide Tenner on the “Klassik-Treffpunkt”, Muthspiel tells how the CD came about out of the commemoration of Pirchner and the programme “Pepl/Pirchner”.
The musicians play works by the composers Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner, who died early.
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17 May 2016 · Report · DE
Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt: „Jazz & andere Genüsse beim Festival INNtöne“
Josef Gebetsroither
Report from the INNtöne 2016: one of Saturday's highlights is the session by Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger, dedicated to an Austrian jazz legend.
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They dedicate their concert to an Austrian jazz legend: the jazz guitarist and composer Harry Pepl.
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16 May 2016 · Report · DE
Die Presse (Online): „Resch, renitent: Der Sound des Sauwalds“
Samir H. Köck
Report on the 30th anniversary of the Inntöne festival in Diersbach. It also describes the performance of the homage to Harry Pepl, in which fragments of Pepl’s recordings were played in and which not everyone liked.
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an artistic high-wire act in which fragments of Pepl’s recordings were also played in
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12 May 2016 · Report · DE
Der Standard (Online): „Inntöne-Festival: Session mit der Historie“
Preview of the INNtöne festival (jazz festival in Diersbach, Upper Austria).
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The saxophonist Clemens Salesny, the guitarist Martin Bayer, the drummer Peter Primus Frosch and the singer Agnes Heginger interpret pieces by Harry Pepl on the Saturday, improvise on them and respond to recordings that Pepl improvised for his Lonely Single Swinger Band: guitar, synthesizer, piano, vocals and drums, all recorded by himself at home. Der Standard calls this a formidable example of an engagement with history that yields “delicate results”.
There are, however, ways of engaging with history that yield delicate results. A formidable example can be experienced on Saturday at the Inntöne festival in Diersbach (which begins on Friday), when sounds by the guitarist Harry Pepl (who died in 2005) also ring out from the stage.
Guitar, synthesizer, piano, vocals, drums: Pepl once recorded everything himself at home.
Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger interpret Harry Pepl
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20 January 2016 · Report · DE
Salzburger Nachrichten: „Drei Tage Jazz: Neustart und Erinnerungen“
Heinz Bayer
A look back at the beginnings of the Jazzfestival Saalfelden as its winter edition starts in 2016: even before the first “3 Tage Jazz” in 1978 there was a first mini festival at the HTL (technical college) Saalfelden on 23 June 1975 with Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Wayne Darling and Fritz Ozmec.
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At a first mini festival on 23 June 1975, Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Wayne Darling and Fritz Ocmec performed at the HTL Saalfelden.
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24 December 2015 · Report · DE
NÖN (Online, Hollabrunn): „Viola Falb, die erste Frau im Jazz“
Report on the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb from the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria: at the opening of this year's Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz, Austria, she received the fifth Harry Pepl Prize, endowed with 4,000 euros.
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The laudatory speaker Ute Pinter highlighted her cross-border compositions and band projects, entirely in the spirit of the musical patron Harry Pepl. Printed in the edition of 23 December 2015, p. 6.
Viola Falb, the district's exceptional artist, received the 5th Harry Pepl Prize in Graz.
entirely in the spirit of the musical patron Harry Pepl
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18 November 2015 · Report · DE
Falter 47/2015 (Rubrik Steiermark): „Steiermark kurz“
Short news from Styria. One item reports that the Harry Pepl Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, went to the composer and saxophonist Viola Falb at the Austria Soundcheck (festival in Graz).
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the Harry Pepl Prize to the composer and saxophonist Viola Falb
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5 November 2015 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung: „Frische Zukunftsmusik“
Michael Tschida
Preview of the 24th Austrian Soundcheck, which bows to Harry Pepl, a gamsbART stalwart from the very beginning, on the tenth anniversary of his death.
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Viola Falb receives the fifth Pepl Prize, endowed with 4,000 euros; in the “Tribute to Harry Pepl” the quartet Salesny, Bayer, Frosch and Heginger uses unreleased archive recordings as coordinates for a flight through the Pepl universe.
The exceptional Viennese guitarist, who died far too early in 2005, is, by the way, virtually present at his own tribute
with unreleased archive recordings that the quartet Salesny/Bayer/Frosch/Heginger uses as coordinates for a rapid flight through the Pepl universe.
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22 October 2015 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Die Würdigung einer Vielseitigen“
Martin Gasser
Preview of the 24th Austrian Soundcheck: Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize, and a homage to Pepl is to premiere on 13 November.
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Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger approach the late recordings that Pepl had made single-handedly in his studio in Lower Austria as “Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band”.
Harry Pepl was a guitarist the like of whom this country has perhaps never produced a second time.
With drums, guitar, piano, synthesizer and voice he created inner dialogues, as it were.
In his recording studio in Lower Austria the musician had recorded pieces single-handedly as “Harry Pepl’s Lonely Single Swinger Band”. With drums, guitar, piano, synthesizer and voice he created, as it were, inner dialogues.
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31 August 2015 · Report · DE
Die Presse (Online): „Saalfelden: Schmerz an der Heimat, Störung der Jazz-Idylle“
Samir H. Köck
Festival report from Jazzfest Saalfelden 2015 (major jazz festival in the Salzburg region). The festival recalled Werner Pirchner’s 75th birthday and also commemorated the guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005.
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also commemorated the guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005
And he also remembered the guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005 and formed the Jazzzwio with Pirchner, whose sophisticated musical language was praised internationally as well.
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26 March 2014 · Report · DE
Falter 13/2014 (arts section): „Erinnerungen an Werner Pirchner, den Frank Zappa aus Hall in Tirol“
Klaus Nüchtern
Review of the film “D.U.D.A.!” by Werner Ludin about Werner Pirchner. The text mentions Pirchner’s collaboration with the guitarist Harry Pepl, through which he became an internationally sought-after jazz virtuoso; the focus is on Pirchner.
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Through his collaboration with the guitarist Harry Pepl he rose to become an internationally sought-after jazz virtuoso
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25 November 2013 · Report · DE
mica music austria: „Clemens Salesny erhält den Harry Pepl Preis“
News item on the fourth presentation of the Harry Pepl Prize at the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz: the encouragement prize went in 2013 to the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny. The article briefly introduces Salesny and his projects.
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This year the Harry Pepl Prize was awarded for the fourth time as part of the “Austrian Soundcheck” in Graz.
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8 November 2013 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Junge Österreicher, alte Damen“
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Preview of the 22nd Austrian Soundcheck in Graz: the prize named after Harry Pepl goes to the saxophonist Clemens Salesny (grant of 4,000 euros), who plays at the saxophone evening “Super Sax!” on 22 November.
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Harry Pepl was one of the outstanding figures in Austrian jazz.
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30 September 2012 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Tyrol): „Drei Jazz-Musiker im Freiraum-Keller vereint“
Preview of the trio Miklin, Känzig, Hart in Jenbach (Tyrol): a look back at 25 years of collaboration between Karlheinz Miklin and Billy Hart, with Ron McClure on bass from the start and first Harry Pepl, then Fritz Pauer in the quartet.
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The Kleine Zeitung confirms this on 19 October 2014.
from the start with Ron McClure on bass and first Harry Pepl, then Fritz Pauer in the quartet
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13 October 2011 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung: „Fährtensuche im Zwio“
Michael Tschida
Preview of a reading by Christoph Ransmayr and Martin Pollack at the Literaturhaus Graz.
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Michael Tschida uses the Jazzzwio of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner as the image of an ideal duet; the same text appeared in the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung on 20 October 2011.
The crowding of the z's and the tacked-on w also nicely illustrated, visually, what bound the Viennese guitarist and the Tyrolean vibraphonist so closely: artistic density, blind understanding, congeniality.
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17 September 2010 · Report · DE
mica music austria: „STUDIO FAN, das Abonnementprogramm des Ensembles Studio Dan“
Presentation of the subscription series of the Viennese ensemble Studio Dan with a short biography of its leader Daniel Riegler. For 2008 it lists his leadership of the Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) stage band and the Harry Pepl Prize 2008.
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4 August 2009 · Report · DE
Vorarlberger Nachrichten (Seite D4, Wohin): „Blue Brass“ (Tipp zu Paul Zauner in Bezau)
Event tip for Paul Zauner’s Blue Brass on the village square in Bezau (Vorarlberg, Austria); the trombonist is introduced as a former band member of David Murray and Pepl.
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With his trombone he served greats such as David Murray or the brilliant Harry Pepl
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3 March 2009 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 30, Ennstal): „Muthspiel-Trio und ein Heimatfilm“
Preview of the Christian Muthspiel Trio concert “The music of Pirchner & Pepl” on Wednesday, 4 March 2009, at the Volkshaus in Rottenmann (Styria, Austria), organised by the Kulturviech association, together with Pirchner’s film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes”.
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Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl formed the legendary duo “jazzzwio” and left their own individual mark on European jazz.
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18 November 2008 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 58, culture): „Preisregen für heimische Künstler“
News item on the Harry Pepl Prize 2008 for the Graz trombonist and composer Daniel Riegler: a gamsbART scholarship of 4,000 euros on condition that he engages with Pepl’s music and presents a project at the next Austrian Soundcheck.
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on condition that he engages with the music of the jazz guitarist who died in 2005
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29 July 2008 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 11, Szenario: Watchlist): „Clemens Wenger“ (Watchlist, WUK)
initials „felb“
Tip for Clemens Wenger’s solo “Alone ist man manchmal schon”, opening the JazzWerkstatt Wien’s summer concerts at the WUK in Vienna on Tuesday, 29 July 2008, based on Pepl’s music.
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its starting point is the electronically and “analog”-pianistically processed music of the great Harry Pepl
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11 April 2008 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 37, culture): „Freier Jazz aus einer perfekten Welt“ (Andy Manndorff)
Michael Huber
Portrait of the guitarist Andy Manndorff on his new trio album and his concert at the Porgy & Bess; he is introduced as a former student of Pepl and a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra.
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once a student of the great Harry Pepl
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31 January 2008 · Report · DE
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (p. 57, culture): „Jazz“ (Christian-Muthspiel-Trio im Moods)
initials „ubs.“
Concert note on the Christian Muthspiel Trio with Franck Tortiller and Georg Breinschmid at the Moods jazz club in Zurich (Switzerland) on Thursday, 31 January 2008, with the music of Pirchner and Pepl and Pirchner’s film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes”.
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The Austrians Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl were among the most original minds of European jazz in the seventies and eighties.
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6 December 2007 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 14, Szenario: Watchlist): „Tribute to Harry Pepl“ (Watchlist, Porgy & Bess)
initials „felb“
Tip for the memorial evening at the Porgy & Bess on Thursday, 6 December 2007, two years after Pepl’s death: Wolfgang Mitterer on synthesizer and Wolfgang Schiftner, first winner of the Harry Pepl Prize, with his quartet.
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Two years have passed since Harry Pepl, one of the great guitarists of the European jazz scene, died.
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3 December 2007 · Report · DE
mica music austria: „Tribute to Harry Pepl im Porgy“
Announcement of a tribute evening at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) in Vienna on 6 December 2007, two years after Pepl’s death.
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The text pays tribute to him as an internationally sought-after boundary-crosser and names collaborations with Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, Dino Saluzzi, Jon Christensen and Dave Liebman. The evening is organised by former companions, prompted by the Graz platform Gamsb'Art, which awards the Harry Pepl Prize.
one of the most respected Austrian musicians
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13 April 2007 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 32, Szenario: Watchlist): „Music of Pepl und Pirchner“ (Watchlist, Spielboden Dornbirn)
initials „mh“
Tip for the Christian Muthspiel Trio concert on Friday, 13 April 2007, at the Spielboden in Dornbirn (Vorarlberg, Austria), followed by a screening of Pirchner’s film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes”.
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who reformed the European jazz scene with their quirky sounds
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22 January 2007 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 39, culture): „Musikalischer Freigeist“
Michael Tschida
Portrait of Christian Muthspiel on the occasion of the award at the Porgy & Bess. Muthspiel counts Jandl’s texts and the compositions of Pirchner and Pepl among his “innermost vocabulary”; the trio programme “Against the Wind” came out on CD in March 2007.
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Ernst Jandl’s texts and the compositions of Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl are, so to speak, part of my innermost vocabulary
Christian Muthspiel
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17 January 2007 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 11, Szenario): „Subtile Vielfalt“
initials „tos“
Preview of the concert with which Christian Muthspiel celebrated the Austrian Prize of Merit for Music 2006 at the Porgy & Bess on 22 January 2007: after the solo performance “für und mit ernst” his trio with Franck Tortiller and Georg Breinschmid played the works of Pepl and Pirchner.
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it is about the works of the glorious duo Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner
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22 November 2006 · Report · DE
Der Standard (culture, Printausgabe): „Jazzwohnzimmer Miles Smiles feiert“
felb
Short report on the 15th anniversary of the Viennese jazz club Miles Smiles in the Josefstadt, founded by Wulf Müller.
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The first concert in autumn 1981 was played by Bill Frisell and Eberhard Weber. Among those who recorded there were Aladár Pege, Jim Pepper and David Friesen, along with Austrian musicians down to Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl.
along with Austrian greats from Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl downwards
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20 November 2006 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 34): „Alter Mut auf neuen Wegen“ (1. Harry-Pepl-Preis geht an Wolfgang Schiftner)
Matthias Wagner
Report on the closing night of the 14th Austrian Soundcheck at the M59 in Graz: the JazzWerkstatt Wien played two sets as a “Tribute to Harry Pepl”, first Clemens Wenger on MIDI keyboard, then the prize-winner Wolfgang Schiftner with Clemens Salesny and colleagues. Gerhard Kosel of gamsbART explained the criteria of the prize, which comes with the obligation to work on Pepl’s legacy.
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above all an innovative way of working musically, the courage to leave one’s own traces
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19 November 2006 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 89, culture): „Jazzpreis“ (Rubrik „Aktuell“)
News item on the first award of the Harry Pepl Prize (5,000 euros, endowed by the City of Graz) to the saxophonist Wolfgang Schiftner on Saturday, 18 November 2006, at the Austrian Soundcheck, where he performed with the JazzWerkstatt Wien.
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The award is meant to commemorate the leading Austrian guitarist Pepl, who died in 2005, and to be the starting point for a study of his life’s work.
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17 November 2006 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (Online, culture section): „Harry Pepl: Œuvre eines Kreativen“
Michael Tschida
Online article on the first presentation of the Harry Pepl Prize in Graz, seen as an impetus to safeguard Pepl’s musical estate.
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His work, it says, is stored in boxes at the house, with tapes, scores and technical oddities; gamsbART (Graz concert promoter) is said to have promised that future diploma scholarships should support the scholarly study of it.
to archive the work of an exceptionally creative person
Gerhard Kosel
How much the star guitarist still inspires jazz musicians even now should be shown by more than just today’s final of the “Austrian Soundcheck”. Hats off to Harry P.!
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13 November 2006 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 25): „Eine Hommage an Harry Pepl“ (Soundcheck in Graz)
initials „MG“
Preview of the 14th Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz, Austria) at the Graz jazz club M59: the closing night on 18 November 2006 brings a homage to Pepl and the first award of the Harry Pepl Prize, endowed by the City of Graz with 5,000 euros.
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22 July 2006 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 11, Szenario): „Jetzt gehts los“ (Glatt & Verkehrt 2006)
initials „felb“
Weekend tip for the Glatt & Verkehrt festival: on Sunday, 23 July 2006, Christian Muthspiel, Franck Tortiller and Georg Breinschmid played their tribute to the Jazzzwio in the Minoritenkirche in Krems-Stein (Lower Austria, Austria).
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their sadly posthumous tribute to the brilliant Jazzzwio
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15 March 2006 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (APA0260, culture): „Starke Töne: JazzWerkstatt Wien lädt wieder zum Festival ins WUK“
APA (initials leh/aku)
Preview of the second festival of the JazzWerkstatt Wien at the WUK in Vienna from 16 March to 8 April 2006. The evening of 19 March is dedicated to the memory of Harry Pepl and Bumi Fian, with guests such as Wolfgang Puschnig, Wolfgang Reisinger and Raphael Preuschl.
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22 November 2003 · Report · DE
Tiroler Tageszeitung (p. 61): „Jazz gegen Oberflächlichkeit“
Preview of the Muthspiel & Muthspiel concert on Saturday, 22 November 2003, at the Treibhaus in Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria).
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Christian Muthspiel tells how the Jazzzwio showed him artistic freedom beyond the academic standard repertoire; Wolfgang Muthspiel calls the duo’s concerts the spark for his own career.
When the two of them played, it was an event. The immense rhythmic power was incredible
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Through the Jazz-Zwio I learned that in this music you really could do exactly what you wanted yourself
Christian Muthspiel
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19 November 2003 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 12, Szenario): „Die Muthspiels - auf den Spuren eines Zwios“
initials „tos“
Preview of the Vienna concert of Muthspiel & Muthspiel at the Porgy & Bess in the twentieth year of their duo, with Pirchner’s film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes”.
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The text praises the Jazzzwio as an irresistible combination of subtlety and intensity on a chamber-music basis.
Pepl’s guitar, whose notes could sound gentle but also strike with nerve-shredding force, remains unrivalled to this day, and not only in Austria.
Ljubiša Tošić
Pepl & Pirchner, that was once one of those irresistible jazz combinations that knew how to unite musical subtlety and intensity on a chamber-music foundation.
Ljubiša Tošić
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1 December 2002 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (p. 66, culture): „Reflexionen“
Otmar Klammer
Preview of the Muthspiel & Muthspiel concert on Sunday, 1 December 2002, at the music school in Deutschlandsberg (Styria, Austria).
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Klammer recalls that Pirchner once invented the name of the Graz concert promoter gamsbART, and calls the Jazzzwio a myth and the brothers’ own point of departure.
the legendary “Jazz-Zwio”, which the vibraphonist Pirchner turned into a myth in the mid-seventies together with the splendid guitarist Harry Pepl
which the vibraphonist Pirchner, together with the splendid guitarist Harry Pepl, turned into a myth in the mid-seventies.
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27 July 2002 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 30, Szenario): „Urwüchsiges Material“ (Werner-Pirchner-Schwerpunkt beim Festival „Glatt & Verkehrt“)
Andreas Felber
Preview of the Pirchner evening on Sunday, 28 July 2002, in the Minoritenkirche in Krems-Stein.
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Felber recalls the Jazzzwio’s triumphs on Europe’s festival stages; Christian Muthspiel explains why the brothers’ duo stays close to the originals on the three Jazzzwio records.
celebrated triumphs on Europe’s festival stages in the Jazz-Zwio with the guitarist Harry Pepl
Precisely because the energy of the Zwio cannot be separated from the actual pieces and compositions
Christian Muthspiel
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24 July 2002 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 26, culture): „Im Gedenken an einen Grenzgenialen“ (Werner Pirchners Nachlass bei „Glatt & Verkehrt“)
initials „Ros“
Preview of the Pirchner concerts at the Glatt & Verkehrt festival in Krems (Lower Austria, Austria) from 28 July 2002. Pepl, Pirchner’s partner on guitar in the 1970s and 1980s, describes him as someone who liked to try out unusual things.
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a bit crazy, and he liked trying out funny things
On Werner Pirchner, his partner in the Jazzzwio, 2002
Harry Pepl
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2002 · Report · DE
Concerto (music magazine), issue 5/2002, p. 40: „24. Internationales Jazzfest Saalfelden“
Andreas Felber
Festival report by Andreas Felber (photos: Herbert Höpfl) on the 24th Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Salzburg, Austria) in August 2002. Felber singles out the homage by the brothers Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel to the Jazzzwio of Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl, disbanded in 1985: close to the originals, they turned pieces from the three vibraphone and guitar albums into calm mood pictures, including “Raga in M”. For Felber, proof that this music is developing its own traditions in Europe too.
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They offered an impressive homage to the “Jazzzwio” of Werner Pirchner/Harry Pepl, disbanded in 1985: the brothers Christian and Wolfgang Muthspiel.
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2002 · Report · DE
treibhaus Innsbruck (programme note): „DuoDue: Muthspiel & Muthspiel spielen die Musik von Pirchner & Pepl“
Andreas Felber
Programme text by Andreas Felber for the concert of the brothers Wolfgang and Christian Muthspiel with their programme “Muthspiel & Muthspiel play Pepl-Pirchner” at the treibhaus Innsbruck (cultural centre in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria).
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Wolfgang Muthspiel recalls a concert by Pirchner and Pepl in Graz in 1982 as a formative experience; until 1986 Pepl was his teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Christian Muthspiel describes what the Jazzzwio showed him. Werner Pirchner congratulated the brothers on their first duo record “Schneetanz” with a postcard, without knowing them personally.
When Pirchner/Pepl played, it was an event. I personally still remember Pepl’s avalanche-like improvisations very well, where things always somehow got ‘dangerous’, hot. His immense rhythmic power was unbelievable.
During my studies, standards and the academic jazz repertoire were held in high esteem. Through the ‘Jazz-Zwio’ I learned that in this music you really could do exactly what you wanted yourself.
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28 December 2001 · Report · DE
Wiener Zeitung (p. 11, culture): „Christian Rösner - ein Superuser zwischen den Zeilen“
Portrait of the music journalist Christian Rösner. He recalls that after school he wanted to study jazz guitar in Graz because everyone was talking about Pepl at the time, and that from 1996 onwards he and Georg Friesenbichler sampled Pepl’s recordings and laid grooves under them.
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At that time everyone was talking about Harry Pepl.
Christian Rösner
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27 October 2001 · Report · DE
Kleine Zeitung (culture, Jazz-News): „Auferstehung“
Otmar Klammer
Column on the launch of Universal’s series “The Austrian Jazzart”, which makes out-of-print or never released recordings of Austrian jazz available again. The first batch includes the Air Mail album “Light Blues”.
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the legendary “Light Blues” by Harry Pepl’s “Airmail”. Wonderful.
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15 August 2001 · Report · DE
Falter (p. 49, culture): „Leben nach dem Tod“ (Werner Pirchner, 1940 bis 2001)
Obituary of Werner Pirchner. It pays tribute to the Jazzzwio with Pepl as a duo successful far beyond Austria, with appearances at the festivals in Berlin and Montreux, duo records, a recording with Jack DeJohnette and the quartet Austria Drei with Adelhard Roidinger.
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Above all, however, he formed with the guitarist Harry Pepl the “Jazz-Zwio”, which was successful far beyond Austria’s borders.
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11 August 2001 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 29, culture): „Alpen-Zappa, Jazzstar und großer Komponist“ (Nachruf auf Werner Pirchner)
Gunther Baumann
Obituary of Werner Pirchner, who after his film “Der Untergang des Alpenlandes” put the camera aside, took up the vibraphone and founded with Pepl the duo that became known as the “jazz orchestra with two men”.
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With Harry Pepl on guitar he founded the legendary “jazz orchestra with two men”
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December 1998 · Report · DE
Das Waldviertel, Jahrgang 47, Heft 4 (p. 408): Kulturpreise des Landes Niederösterreich 1998 (nach NÖ Landeskorrespondenz, 22.10.1998)
List of the prizewinners of the 1998 culture prizes of the state of Lower Austria (award of the State of Lower Austria for the arts and culture), based on a release from the NÖ Landeskorrespondenz of 22 October 1998. In the music category Harry Pepl receives the prize of honour, while Friedrich Keil and Elisabeth Schimana receive recognition prizes.
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Music: Harry Pepl (prize of honour), Friedrich Keil and Elisabeth Schimana (recognition prizes)
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3 November 1998 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 10, local news section, column „Landsleute“): „Auszeichnung für den musikalischen Jazz-Grenzgänger Harry Pepl“
initials „flo“
Brief news item about the 53-year-old guitarist and pianist from Hernstein, listing companions such as Toni Stricker, André Heller and the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster).
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It also mentions the Le Monde phrase about the „Giganten der Improvisation“ [“giants of improvisation”] and the German Record Critics’ Awards. The text does not say which award the headline refers to.
What matters is finding your own individual line, and for that it is practise, practise, practise
Harry Pepl
The 53-year-old guitarist and pianist of world renown from Hernstein captivates jazz lovers with extraordinary, spontaneous and innovative sounds.
I feel committed to musical truthfulness
In 1998, on receiving the culture prize of the province of Lower Austria
Harry Pepl
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21 October 1998 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur): „Niederösterreichische Kulturpreise 1998 verliehen“
initials „we/wea“
Report on the presentation of the 1998 Lower Austrian culture prizes in the Shedhalle in St. Pölten on Wednesday, 21 October 1998, with the speech by Governor Erwin Pröll and the complete list of prizewinners; in the music category Harry Pepl receives the Würdigungspreis (prize of honour).
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11 November 1997 · Report · DE
Wiener Zeitung (p. 4, column „Jazzignal“): „Musikleckerbissen bei Inntönen“
Christian Rösner
Preview of Paul Zauner’s INNtöne festival at Zell an der Pram Castle (November and December 1997).
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The highlight on 5 and 6 December brings together Michel Portal, Alvin Batiste, Steve Shehan, Woody Schabata, Jon Christensen, David Gilmore and Harry Pepl, who has just released a CD on PAO Records on which he plays piano instead of guitar.
let it be said straight away, Pepl does not play guitar but piano
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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.
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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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18 October 1996 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 706): Veranstaltungstipp „Ballett“ (steirischer herbst: 13. Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg)
initials „knei“
Listings note: at the 13th Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg, part of the steirischer herbst (festival of contemporary art in Styria), Pepl’s “Exzentrik Egometrik” is premiered at the Laßnitzhaus on Saturday, 19 October 1996, and repeated on Sunday, 20 October, played by the Altenberg Trio. Afterwards the Österreichisches Ballett Theater presents Ernst Widmer’s “Die letzte Blume”.
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Harry Pepl’s “Exzentrik - Egometrik” will receive its premiere.
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28 December 1994 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Jazz-Splitter“
initials „hmf/gg“
Short report: for his band Abstract Truth the trombonist Paul Zauner has recruited John Purcell, Kenny Davis, Ronnie Burrage and Harry Pepl; the album “Beginnings” ranges from fusion to avant-garde.
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The result, from fusion to avant-garde: “Beginnings”.
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24 December 1994 · Report · DE
Salzburger Nachrichten (p. 7): „Österreichs Jazz hält seine Freunde auf Trab“
Wolfgang Lamprecht
Annual review of Austrian jazz in 1994, covering Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club), labels and CD productions. Pepl appears only in a subordinate clause: the author names “N.Y.C. impressure” his jazz album of the year.
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the (for the author of these lines) Austrian jazz album of the year, “N.Y.C. impressure”, by and with Harry Pepl
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26 July 1994 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (p. 18): „Musikalischer Grenzgänger lehrt an ‚NÖ Jazzakademie‘“
initials „D. S.“
Preview of the sixth Lower Austrian Jazz Academy at Zeillern Castle (31 July to 6 August 1994), a further-training seminar for aspiring professional musicians.
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Pepl is introduced as the most prominent teacher; with his quartet he plays the opening concert on Sunday, 31 July, at 9 pm.
Guitarist and composer Harry Pepl is regarded as a musical border-crosser and has played with jazz greats such as Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, Dave Liebman and Jack DeJohnette.
The top-class musician will also play the opening concert with his quartet on 31 July from 9 p.m.
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16 February 1994 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur): „‚Strings‘ - Ein Jazzfestival der Saiten“
initials „hmf/gg“
Programme presentation of the Graz jazz festival “Graz Meeting ’94” (19 to 21 April 1994, Orpheum) on the theme of string instruments, with Joe Pass, John Abercrombie, Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey, the String Trio of New York, Wolfgang Muthspiel and the trio Kühn, Jenny-Clark, Humair. Pepl plays in a quartet with Wolfgang Puschnig.
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Nor must one of the most experimental and versatile Austrian jazz guitarists be missing: Harry Pepl
Austria Presse Agentur
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17 September 1993 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 10): „Schwarz & hart, erdig & kantig“ (Komponist Paul Zauner erkundet „Die Innviertler Seele“ musikalisch)
Christian Schachinger
Preview of the project “Die Innviertler Seele” at the Festival der Regionen: Paul Zauner brings American and Viennese jazz musicians, among them George Lewis, Gene Jackson, Harry Pepl and Christian Radovan, together with Innviertel zither music and a traditional brass band. Dates: 23 September 1993 at the Gasthof Zwink in Aspach, 24 September at the multi-purpose hall in Obernberg and 25 September at Zell an der Pram Castle.
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Among others, the US trombonist George Lewis, Gene Jackson, who works with Herbie Hancock, as well as the guitarist Harry Pepl and the trombonist Christian Radovan will be exposed to a very special kind of culture clash.
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19 May 1993 · Report · DE
Der Standard (Seite S5, column „Veranstaltungen zum Vorausplanen“): „Frische Luftpost“
Ljubiša Tošić (initials „tos“)
Listings tip: Air Mail, one of the most successful Austrian bands, has re-formed after a long break, with Wolfgang Puschnig, Harry Pepl, Wolfgang Reisinger and Palle Danielsson on double bass. Concert at the Vienna jazz venue Reigen.
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“Air Mail” was one of the most successful Austrian bands.
Almost everything this country has to offer in jazz of international quality is gathered here.
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December 1992 · Report · DE
Jazzlive (vol. 10, no. 99/1992): Titelbild Harry Pepl; „Soundknitting. Die farbenfrohen Klangmuster der New Yorker Knitting Factory“
Hannes Schweiger (article); Rainer Rygalyk (cover photo)
The Viennese jazz magazine shows Harry Pepl on its cover, photographed by the publisher Rainer Rygalyk.
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In the issue, Hannes Schweiger describes the history and programme of the New York club Knitting Factory (New York music club for jazz and the avant-garde) and reports that in summer 1992 Pepl played there for an evening with his quartet (Klaus Stötter, Paul Nowinski, JoJo Mayer). Pepl describes how the pace of New York changed the way he plays.
I noticed myself that I play completely differently there than at home.
On his performance at the Knitting Factory, New York’s avant-garde club, in summer 1992
Harry Pepl
The ambience of the club is rather plain. Playing there was really an experience.
On the Knitting Factory, New York’s avant-garde club, where he played in summer 1992
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.
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That is yet another new band, in which the Austrians Harry Pepl and Harry Sokal, among others, are fiddling along.
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12 August 1992 · Report · DE
Kurier (p. 6): „Jazzakademie im Schloß lockt internationale Stars“
Manfred L. Fritscher
Report on the Lower Austrian Jazz Academy at Zeillern Castle, with students mainly from Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
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Among the teachers, the Kurier names Pepl first, alongside Martin Fuss, Michael Starch, Ines Reiger, Claus Stötter, Joris Dudli, Bobby Dodge and Albert Kreuzer; on Wednesday, 12 August 1992, the teachers play a concert in the castle.
Old master Harry Pepl, guitar guru of the Austrian jazz scene
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6 December 1991 · Report · DE
Der Standard (p. 11): „NÖ. Herbst: Erfolge mit Neuer Musik“
initials „ws“
Short review of the 1991 ZeitgeNÖssischer Herbst (77 concerts, around 11,000 listeners). Der Standard names as highlights the premiere of Horst Ebenhöh’s “Pfaffenberger Nacht” and the closing concert with Harry Pepl.
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The highlights were the premiere of Horst Ebenhöh’s scenic humoresque “Pfaffenberger Nacht” and the closing concert with Harry Pepl.
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February 1990 · Report · DE
Tschin Bumm (music magazine, technology column, p. 52): „Harry Pepl im Studio: Das Bösendorfer-Projekt“
Studio report on the recordings for “Schönberg Improvations” (PolyGram) at the SingSang studio in Vienna: six studio days, pieces averaging 15 minutes with borrowings from Arnold Schoenberg, entirely without guitar tone, on the Bösendorfer (Vienna piano maker) computer grand piano, with David Liebman, Mino Cinelu and Wolfgang Reisinger. Pepl had played in the parts at home on the Roland MIDI guitar; the studio head Richie Österreicher jr. explains the technology. Only page 52 has survived; the continuation is missing from the scan.
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Harry Pepl is a man like Albert Einstein, a genius whom probably only a handful of people can still follow in his work.
Richie Österreicher jr.
The latest LP by the guitarist, acclaimed worldwide, is: a piano record.
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30 January 1990 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Harry Pepl mit Schönberg-Improvisationen“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Report on a record project in progress: on a guitar equipped with MIDI computers and synthesizers, Pepl plays Schoenberg improvisations which after recording are given the sound quality of a concert grand.
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Hardly any difference from piano acoustics can be heard.
Although it is played on the guitar, there is hardly any difference from the acoustic sound of a piano.
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17 January 1989 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Jazz im Radio“
initials „hmf/fwi/ca“
Programme note: on Saturday, 21 January 1989, the Ö1 Jazzstudio (ORF’s cultural radio station) devoted a feature to the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl.
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A feature in the Ö1 Jazzstudio on 21 January is devoted to the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl.
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19 December 1988 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Jahresrückblick „Pop, Rock, Jazz“: „Österreichs Jazz wurde international“
initials „hmf/fwi/ca“
Review of the year by the Austria Presse Agentur: in 1988 Austrian jazz had finally become international.
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First place goes to Pepl’s German Record Critics’ Award for “Cracked Mirrors”, followed by Wolfgang Puschnig’s “Pieces Of The Dream”, Karl “Bumi” Fian and the Muthspiel brothers.
Austrian jazz has finally become international. Guitarist Harry Pepl received the German Record Critics’ Award for “Cracked Mirrors”, recorded with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen.
Austria Presse Agentur
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4 October 1988 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Große Konzertreihe mit Jazz und zeitgenössischer Musik in Graz“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Preview of the autumn programme of gamsbART (Graz concert promoter, directed by Heimo Steps) at the Catholic student centre Münzgraben.
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The December programme includes a “special evening” with Pepl, Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen, who received the German Record Critics’ Award for “Cracked Mirrors”, initiated by gamsbART (the text inconsistently gives 16 November). Pepl is also named as a guest on Wolfgang Puschnig’s album “Pieces Of The Dream”.
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30 August 1988 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Schallplattenpreis für Harry Pepls ‚Cracked Mirrors‘“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Report: the ECM album “Cracked Mirrors” with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen received the German Record Critics’ Award (German award for outstanding recordings, chosen by a jury of critics) in the jazz category of the quarterly list.
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The last Austrian jazz musician honoured in this way before Pepl was Werner Pirchner for the double album “EU”.
Great success for the guitarist Harry Pepl, a lot of attention for Austrian jazz.
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14 June 1988 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Erfolge für Harry Pepl“
initials „A“
Report on the international response to “Cracked Mirrors” with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen and to the LP “Volver” with Dino Saluzzi and Enrico Rava.
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Appearances at Scandinavian festivals and concerts in Japan are announced for the following year. Pepl says he began playing without any concrete idea of the sound.
His new album “Cracked Mirrors”, recorded with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen, has caught the attention of international critics.
created, as it were, out of nothing
Harry Pepl
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8 March 1988 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Jazz aus Österreich“
initials „hmf/fwi/ca“
Record column on Austrian jazz: Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig, Harry Pepl, Wolfgang Reisinger and Mike Richmond, successful abroad as well, releases “Light Blues” on PolyGram.
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“Cracked Mirrors” with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen was initiated and co-financed by the Graz arts association gamsbART and taken over by ECM (the renowned European jazz label).
“Cracked Mirrors” is the name of the LP featuring the three jazz musicians in truly outstanding form.
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16 June 1987 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Erfolg für Harry Pepl in Frankreich“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Short report from Paris: Pepl was successful at several concerts in France, including sessions with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Liebman in Paris.
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Praise came from the guitarist John Abercrombie; several record productions were in preparation, among them an album with Herbert Joos.
There was praise, too, from a prominent colleague, the guitarist John Abercrombie.
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2 June 1987 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Programm für das ‚Jazzianer-Fort‘ in Wiesen fixiert“
initials „hmf/fwi/wm“
Programme preview of the festival at the “Jazzianer-Fort” in Wiesen, Burgenland (3 to 5 July 1987).
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On Sunday, 5 July, Air Mail was billed alongside George Russell’s big band, the Johnny Griffin Quartet and Duo Due; the agency announced the band with „Österreichs erstem Gitarristen“ [“Austria’s foremost guitarist”].
AirMail with Austria’s foremost guitarist Harry Pepl
APA JAZZ NEWS (Austria Presse Agentur)
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7 April 1987 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Jazz-Splitter“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Short report: Pepl had been in the studio with the trumpeter and flugelhorn player Herbert Joos (the result became “Cracked Mirrors”), sessions in France with Jack DeJohnette, Michel Portal and Mino Cinelu would follow in May, and a trio record with DeJohnette and Dave Holland was in preparation. Pepl is introduced as guitar professor at the jazz department of the Graz music academy (today the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz).
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A trio record with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland is in preparation.
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20 June 1986 · Report · DE
Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25: „Jazz-Formation »Air Mail« gastiert in Landeck“
Preview in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck (Tyrol, Austria), a local paper delivered to every household in the district, of Air Mail's concert on Thursday, 19 June 1986, at 8.30 p.m. at the Hotel Sonne in Landeck, the last before the summer break.
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The band's profile gives 1984 as the year it was founded and names its international debut at the New Jazz Festival Moers and at festivals in Cologne and Warsaw, the LP “Prayer for Peace” (1985) and the tour in May and June 1986 through Switzerland, Germany, France and Austria with the festivals in Coutances, Amiens, Maur near Zurich and Neuwied, as well as invitations to Istanbul, Ankara and Basel. It adds four press quotes in English, Polish, French and German, without naming the publications, and a group photo by Rainer Rygalyk.
“Air Mail”, one of the best contemporary quartets on the European jazz scene, is coming to town.
A much-noticed international debut at the “New Jazz Festival Moers” and at the festivals in Cologne and Warsaw.
Air Mail was the most enjoya[ble] discovery of the festival
English-language press quote on a festival appearance by Air Mail, publication and year not named; the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, a local paper in Tyrol, printed it in 1986 before the concert at the Hotel Sonne. The addition in square brackets fills the cut-off margin of the print.
an ideal jazz quartet … in the same breath we cite the example of John Coltrane's quartet of the 1960s
Polish press quote, publication and year not named; it compares Air Mail with John Coltrane's quartet of the 1960s. The Polish wording is given as printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck in 1986, with copying errors and additions at the margin in square brackets.
Air Mail is establishing itself as one of the most exciting quartets on the European scene.
French-language press quote, publication and year not named; the original wording is given as printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck in 1986.
A music that does justice to a trait of the times, an artistic togetherness to whose wholeness each contributes his own independent and irreplaceable share.
German-language press quote on Air Mail, publication and year not named; as printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, a local paper in Tyrol, in 1986.
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25 February 1986 · Report · DE
APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Harry Pepls Sessions in Frankreich“
initials „hmf/fwi“
Short report by the Austria Presse Agentur on Austrian jazz musicians abroad: Pepl was to play sets in Paris and Grenoble in early March 1986, and recordings with Michel Portal and Jack DeJohnette were planned.
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Recordings with Michel Portal and Jack DeJohnette are also planned.
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May 1985 · Report
Austrian Information (Austrian Press and Information Service, New York): „Beyond the Sound of Music. New Austria / New York, May 15th – May 19th 1985“, Volume 38, Nr. 4, S. 3 bis 4
Peter Vujica
Lead article on the festival “Beyond the Sound of Music. New Austria / New York” (15 to 19 May 1985), staged in New York by steirischer herbst (Styrian Autumn, the festival of contemporary art in Graz, Austria) together with the Austrian Institute and the New York art space The Kitchen to mark the 40th anniversary of Austria’s regained independence. Festival director Peter Vujica (translated by Donald Friedman) describes steirischer herbst as a festival of resistance against routine and repression and lists the New York artists who had appeared in Graz, from Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass and Steve Reich to Robert Wilson, Trisha Brown, Nam June Paik, Carla Bley and the Art Ensemble of Chicago; New York, he writes, is now the long overdue return visit. The opening concert on 15 May at the Ohio Theater is given by Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner with Don Moye. Then come readings by H. C. Artmann (Viennese poet), Wolfgang Bauer (Graz playwright), Ingeborg Day, Alfred Kolleritsch (editor of the Graz literary magazine manuskripte) and Jürg Laederach, presented by the American novelists John Irving and Walter Abish, Rhys Chatham with the Graz group Blizz Frizz, the K und K Experimentalstudio with songs based on poems by Selma Meerbaum, as well as exhibitions of photography and architecture and films. The cover shows the 1972 poster “Auf, zum steirischen herbst!” (“Off to the Styrian Autumn!”).
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The opening event on May 15th at the Ohio Theater will be shared by the Jazz Musicians, Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner
Artists from Styria and all over Austria meet with their friends in New York.
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20 March 1985 · Report · FR
Le Monde: „Au Théâtre de la Ville, Michel Portal double jeu“
Preview in Le Monde, the Paris daily, of two jazz evenings by Michel Portal at the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France) on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 1985, “two jazz concerts” with Harry Pepl, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Mino Cinelu and Daniel Humair.
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9 March 1985 · Report
Cash Box (US-Musikfachzeitschrift mit eigenen Charts): Jazz: „On Jazz“, Abschnitt „Label Hopping“ (Vol. 48, Nr. 39)
Lee Jeske
In his jazz column, Lee Jeske reports under “Label Hopping” the ECM releases that PolyGram Special Imports is bringing to the USA, among them “Werner Pirchner/Harry Pepl/Jack De Johnette”, the US edition of the album ECM 1237. It is a news item, not a review; a week later Billboard recommended the album in its Album Reviews.
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And the Special Imports side of PolyGram gives us, on ECM, […] and “Werner Pirchner/Harry Pepl/Jack De Johnette.”
Lee Jeske in his jazz column in Cash Box on the ECM releases that PolyGram Special Imports brought to the USA, among them the trio album with Werner Pirchner and Jack DeJohnette (ECM 1237); a news item, not a review
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20 May 1982 · Report · DE
Steirerkrone (Neue Kronen Zeitung, Styria edition): „Star mit Witz: Larry Coryell“
Ronnie Herbolzheimer
Report on the concert of the American guitarist Larry Coryell with the Polish violinist Michal Urbaniak at the Münzl in Graz.
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The afternoon before, Coryell visited the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, showed the students some new tricks and played a jam session with Harry Pepl, who, according to the report, greatly impressed him.
to play a jam session with Harry Pepl, by whom he was very impressed.
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27 June 1981 · Report
Billboard (US-Musikfachzeitschrift mit den Branchen-Charts, gegründet 1894): International: „15th Montreux Begins July 3“ (Vol. 93, Nr. 25)
Short news item in the “International” section on the 15th Montreux International Jazz Festival (Switzerland) from 3 to 19 July 1981, with the programme of every evening.
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For the guitar day on Sunday, 12 July, Billboard lists Harry Pepl alongside James “Blood” Ulmer, Philippe Cauvin, Raphael Fays, Kilimandjaro, Biréli Lagrène, Lee Ritenour, Larry Coryell and Harri Stojka. That evening Pepl played with Werner Pirchner as the Jazzzwio; the item names only him.
(12) James “Blood” Ulmer, Philippe Cauvin, Raphael Fays, Kilimandjaro, Bireli, Lagrene, Harry Pepl, Lee Ritenour, Larry Coryell, Harri Stojka
Programme of the 15th Montreux International Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in Billboard; “(12)” stands for Sunday, 12 July 1981, the festival’s guitar day. Pepl played there with Werner Pirchner as the Jazzzwio; Billboard names only him. Spelling as printed
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30 April 1980 · Report · DE
Burgenländische Freiheit (gedruckte p. 52, ANNO-p. 44): „Jazz aktuell“ bei Jeunesses Musicales
Short report on the “Jazz aktuell” concert of the Musical Youth on 21 April 1980 in the assembly hall of the Pädagogische Akademie Eisenstadt.
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The quintet “5 Neighbours”, led by the pianist Dieter Glawischnig, was joined as soloists by Werner Pirchner on vibraphone and Harry Pepl on guitar.
Vibraphone and Harry Pepl on guitar demonstrated convincingly