Chronology

2000s

1. 15 December 2005

   Ö1 “Spielräume”: “Im Gegenwind. Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl”

   On Thursday, 15 December 2005, at 5.30 pm, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) remembered Harry Pepl with Giselher Smekal in its “Spielräume” series (the title means “Against the wind. Memories of Harry Pepl”). On 6 December the 7 am Ö1 Morgenjournal had already broadcast an obituary by Wolfgang Bilek.

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2. September 2006

   Nikolaus Kohler's diploma thesis

   Vienna

   At the University of Vienna, Nikolaus Kohler submitted the first detailed academic study of Pepl, supervised by Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann.

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3. 9 December 2006

   Ö1 Jazznacht with unreleased recordings

   About a year after Pepl’s death, Christian Bakonyi presented him in largely unreleased recordings in the Ö1 Jazznacht (all-night jazz programme on ORF’s cultural radio station) from 11.05 pm; the studio guest was his son Daniel Pepl. The Wiener Zeitung, the Vienna daily founded in 1703, announced the broadcast on 7 and 9 December 2006 for Saturday night. A recording survives in the family on CD.

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4. 13 March 2007

   Deutschlandfunk “Milestones”

   The Deutschlandfunk (Germany's national public radio station) broadcast the series “Milestones, Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte” on Harry Pepl in its late-night radio programme, with Montreux 81, the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) trio and Air Mail.

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5. 2008

   Wolfgang Schalk dedicates “And Harry Said Goodbye” to Pepl

   Los Angeles

   On his album “Wanted” (Frame Up Music), released in 2008 and recorded in Los Angeles, USA, with Geoffrey Keezer and Marvin “Smitty” Smith, the Styrian guitarist Wolfgang Schalk dedicates the piece “And Harry Said Goodbye” to Pepl. All About Jazz, the US online jazz magazine, reviews the album in September 2008 and singles out the ballad; on Friday, 20 February 2009, Die Presse, a Vienna daily, calls it particularly beautiful. Schalk’s Graz teacher Franz J. Posch had once drawn his attention to Pepl.

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