Chronology

1970s

1. 27 March 1974

   Pepl as guitarist at the Musikverein: “Missa Criolla” with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor

   Vienna

   In the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor under Erwin Ortner performs Ariel Ramírez's “Missa Criolla” on Wednesday, 27 March 1974, as its Austrian premiere. Pepl plays guitar, alongside Fritz Ozmec (drums), Ewald Zimmermann (double bass) and Harald Neuwirth (harpsichord).

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2. 23 June 1975

   Mini festival at the HTL Saalfelden

   Saalfelden

   On Monday, 23 June 1975, Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, Harry Pepl, Wayne Darling and Fritz Ozmec, the Austrian jazz drummer, play at a first mini festival at the HTL (technical college) in Saalfelden (Salzburg, Austria), three years before the first “3 Tage Jazz” from which the Jazzfestival Saalfelden grew.

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3. 25 September 1975

   Hip Jargon with Werner Pirchner at the Vienna Funkhaus

   Vienna

   On Thursday, 25 September 1975, Hip Jargon plays with Pepl (guitar), Wayne Darling (double bass) and Fritz Ozmec (drums) in the Great Broadcasting Hall of the Funkhaus in Vienna, Austria; the guest is Werner Pirchner on vibraphone. The recording from the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) radio archive is broadcast on 5 June 2020 in Ö1’s (the ORF's cultural radio channel) “In Concert”, which calls Hip Jargon “the nucleus of the famous ‘Jazz-Zwio’”.

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4. 1977

   Premiere of Pirchner’s “Präludium und Fiasko”

   Innsbruck, Tyrol

   At the Kongresshaus Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria), the Eisenbahnermusik Innsbruck under Florian Pedarnig gives the premiere of Werner Pirchner’s “Präludium und Fiasko” for wind band, vibraphone and guitar (PWV 9), with Pirchner on vibraphone and Pepl on guitar. An excerpt can be heard on the soundtrack of the Pirchner film “D.U.D.A!” (2014).

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5. 7 October 1977

   With Marianne Mendt in Deutschlandsberg

   Deutschlandsberg

   On Friday, 7 October 1977, Pepl plays in the festival hall of the Arbeiterkammer (Chamber of Labour, the statutory body representing employees) in Deutschlandsberg (Styria, Austria) in a concert by the Austrian singer Marianne Mendt, with Harald Neuwirth (piano), Wayne Darling (bass) and Erich Bachträgl (drums). The organiser is the Kulturkreis Deutschlandsberg, a local cultural association; the archive of the steirischer herbst (festival of contemporary art in Styria) lists the evening and names the guitarist by his baptismal name, “Harald Pepl”.

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6. 2 February 1979

   Jazzzwio at the Jazzforum Mödling

   Mödling

   On Friday, 2 February 1979, the Jazzzwio with Werner Pirchner (vibraphone) and Harry Pepl (guitar) played for the Jazzforum Mödling, a jazz association founded in 1978 in Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria; according to the association's chronology the venue was “St. Michael”. The photographer Erich Petzwinkler captured the evening, and his picture of Pepl with the Gibson Les Paul is in the archive (more photos in the picture archive of the Jazzforum Mödling). Twelve days later, on Wednesday, 14 February 1979, Pepl and Pirchner opened for the Dutch guitarist Harry Sacksioni in Vienna.

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7. May 1979

   Concert with Friedrich Gulda in Graz

   Graz

   For early May 1979 the Burgenländische Freiheit announced “a concert of superlatives” at the Münzgrabenheim in Graz: Friedrich Gulda, the Viennese pianist and composer, on piano with the two former ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster) musicians Wayne Darling (bass) and Harry Pepl (guitar).

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8. 7 September 1979

   Guitar duo with Voja Brković at the Debrecen Jazz Days

   Debrecen, Hungary

   At the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days (Debreceni dzsessznapok) in Hungary, according to the local paper the country’s largest representative jazz festival, Pepl plays at midnight on Friday, 7 September 1979, in the Bartók Hall in a duo with the Yugoslav guitarist Voja Brković, that is, in the night to Saturday; afterwards the pianist Gusztáv Csík gives a solo concert. The Debrecen daily “Hajdú-Bihari Napló” announces the “Austrian-Yugoslav guitar duo” twice that day. In the festival review of Sunday, 16 September 1979, Gábor Turi ranks the duo among the top group of the five-day festival with 7,000 visitors and praises its virtuoso technique and perfect interplay.

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9. 16 November 1979 to 24 November 1979

   Tour with the Vienna Art Orchestra

   Austria

   Pepl played on the tour for the debut album “Tango from Obango” (Steyr, Linz, Dornbirn, Feldkirch, Vienna, Graz). The album was recorded on 22 and 23 November 1979.

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