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1970
Studio musician in Vienna
Vienna
Pepl left the cover band during a tour to become a studio musician and briefly studied at the jazz department of the Vienna Conservatory. There he met Peter Ponger; through Ernst Kugler he found his way into the ORF (Austria's public broadcaster) studio.
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August 1977
Farewell to the ORF Big Band, move to Graz
Graz
Pepl ended his contract with the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster), wanting to play only jazz from then on. On 10 August 1977 the Burgenländische Freiheit reported that he was to move to Graz, “where he is to take up a teaching post in the jazz department of the university of music”; the guitarist Olaf Weitzer was being discussed as his successor in the band. Pepl had last been heard with his jazz-rock group “Hedgehog” at the three-day festival in Kohfidisch. Guido Jeszenszky began studying with him in Graz that year.
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