Chronology
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11 June 2010
Robert Riegler and Primus Sitter: “Air, Love & Vitamines”
Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria
The bassist Robert Riegler and the guitarist Primus Sitter play their duo programme “Air, Love & Vitamines” at the KIK in Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria, Austria), with compositions by Harry Pepl, Werner Pirchner, Robert Riegler, Rebekka Bakken, Primus Sitter and Sting.
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22 November 2010
Harry Pepl Prize for Stefan Heckel
Graz
On Monday, 22 November 2010, at the close of the 20th Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) at the Orpheum, a concert venue, in Graz, Austria, the Styrian pianist and accordionist Stefan Heckel receives the third Harry Pepl Prize of the Graz promoter gamsbART, a grant of 4,000 euros (the Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, gives 4,500 euros after the ceremony), expressly as the starting point for a doctoral thesis on Pepl's work. As a prelude, Daniel Riegler, prize winner 2008, and Matthias Muche play three of Pepl's real-time compositions as a trombone duo, among them “125/250” from the Air Mail years. In 2024 Heckel completed a dissertation on Pepl's late work at the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).
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8 December 2010
Christian Muthspiel Trio plays Pirchner and Pepl in Feldafing
Feldafing
On Wednesday, 8 December 2010, the trio of Christian Muthspiel plays its programme “Against the Wind” with the music of Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and Harry Pepl at the Kulturkeller in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg (Bavaria, Germany). The Süddeutsche Zeitung calls the Jazzzwio a group “that gave European jazz important impulses”.
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13 June 2013
Stephan Mathoi and Philipp Hager play Pirchner and Pepl in Imst
Imst, Tyrol
At the first Laurentius concert in the Laurentius church on the Bergl in Imst (Tyrol, Austria), the guitarist Stephan Mathoi and the vibraphonist Philipp Hager play works by Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl as well as their own pieces on Thursday, 13 June 2013, under the motto “Entgleiste Klassik” (classical music off the rails), in the line-up of the Jazzzwio.
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22 November 2013
Harry Pepl Prize for Clemens Salesny
Graz
On Friday 22 November 2013 the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny receives the Harry Pepl Prize at the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz, Austria; according to Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) and mica (Austria's music information centre) it is already the fourth presentation. The evening billed as “Super Sax!” was scheduled for the Dom im Berg and, according to the Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, on the day of the concert, moved to the Orpheum extra; Salesny plays there in a trio with Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch. In 2015 he records with both of them and Agnes Heginger the double CD for the tenth anniversary of Pepl's death, playing along to his original tracks.
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23 December 2013
Jazzzwio Legner-Rofner plays Pepl and Pirchner
Absam, Tyrol
On Monday, 23 December 2013, the vibraphonist Matthias Legner and the bassist Clemens Rofner, as “Jazzzwio Legner-Rofner”, play selected compositions by Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner at the Gemeindemuseum Absam (Tyrol, Austria), almost 30 years after the Jazzzwio. According to the announcement, the evening is meant to „die leider oft übersehenen Pepl-Pirchner-Jazztunes zeitgemäß in Erinnerung rufen“ [“bring the sadly often overlooked Pepl-Pirchner jazz tunes back to mind in a contemporary way”]. The announcement quotes Heimo Steps on the Jazzzwio.
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2014
“Olymp” on “Schnitzelbeat Volume 1”
Pepl's composition “Olymp” from 1964 was reissued on the compilation of Austrian rock ’n’ roll and beat rarities.
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4 July 2014
Pepl's music at the graduation ceremony of the University of Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt, Carinthia
At the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Cultural Studies and the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Klagenfurt (Carinthia, Austria) on Friday, 4 July 2014, in the Hans Romauch Hall, the Primus Sitter Trio (Primus Sitter, guitar; Stefan Gfrerrer, double bass; Emil Krištof, percussion) played Harry Pepl's “Air, Love & Vitamins” for the procession. Later in the programme came Sitter's own piece “Drei Diplomaten für H.P.” (Three diplomats for H.P.).
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20 November 2014
Ö1 on the ORF Big Band
Vienna
In “Apropos Musik” on Thursday, 20 November 2014, Klaus Wienerroither portrays on Ö1 (ORF's cultural radio station) the ORF Big Band, which from 1971 to 1982 produced high-quality orchestral jazz alongside functional music, with soloists such as Art Farmer and Harry Pepl.
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August 2015
Christian Muthspiel remembers Pirchner and Pepl in Saalfelden
Saalfelden
At the Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Salzburg, Austria) at the end of August 2015, Christian Muthspiel plays his homage “Homesick” for Werner Pirchner's 75th birthday with Franck Tortiller and Jerome Harris, recalling the Jazzzwio with Harry Pepl, among others with “Against the Wind” and “Air, Love & Vitamins”. Ö1 broadcasts the recording on 14 July 2016.
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19 September 2015
Ö1 Jazznacht “Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl”
Vienna
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Christian Bakonyi presented the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) Jazznacht on Saturday 19 September 2015, with Daniel Pepl, Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer in the studio. An archive find of the trio with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley from Tamsweg was also played.
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26 October 2015
Ö1 honours Pepl on the National Day
Vienna
For the Austrian National Day, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) broadcasts the portrait „Heimat bis Du großer...“ in its “Spielräume” series, produced by Klaus Wienerroither. The title alludes to the national anthem: “In this case it really is one of the sons.” The programme spans Air Mail and the Jazzzwio, Benny Goodman and the ORF Big Band through to “Air, Love & Vitamins”.
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9 November 2015
Harry Pepl Prize for Viola Falb
Graz
On Monday, 9 November 2015, at the opening of the 24th Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in the Dom im Berg in Graz, Austria, the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize from gamsbART; the laudatory speech is given by Ute Pinter. The Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, and the NÖN, the regional weekly of Lower Austria, give 4,000 euros, the Falter 5,000 euros. The dating to 2016 by mica (Austria's music information centre) and Wikipedia is thus superseded. No later presentation is documented; Stefan Heckel dates the series up to 2015.
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13 November 2015
Premiere of the “Tribute to Harry Pepl” at the Austrian Soundcheck
Graz
On Friday, 13 November 2015, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger present for the first time their programme with Pepl's late home-studio recordings at the Orpheum extra in Graz (Styria, Austria) during the 24th Austrian Soundcheck, on the tenth anniversary of his death. The Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s largest-circulation daily, wrote that they interacted with the master “as if he were sitting on stage”.
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5 December 2015
Double CD for the 10th anniversary of his death
Porgy & Bess, Vienna
On the initiative of Daniel Pepl, the double CD “Harry Pepl & Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger” was released on Fullmax Recordings: Pepl's home-studio tracks, supplemented by live-recorded instruments. It was presented on Saturday, 5 December 2015, at 8.30 pm at the Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club), marking the 10th anniversary of his death in the year of his 70th birthday. On stage were Clemens Salesny (reeds), Martin Bayer (guitar), Peter Primus Frosch (drums) and Agnes Heginger (vocals), with guests Dominik Fuss (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Raphael Preuschl (bass); Harry Pepl took part through his multitrack recordings (guitar, guitar synthesizer, piano, vocals, drums). The live sets were based on the previously unreleased material of the Lonely Single Swinger Band, which Pepl had recorded instrument by instrument in his home studio in Hernstein, Lower Austria.
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2016
“The Balsam Project” on “Faces And Stories”
On Wolfgang Puschnig's compilation, the duo with Pepl from the 1988 album “Pieces Of The Dream” was reissued.
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14 May 2016
INNtöne Jazz Festival 2016
Diersbach
Harry Pepl (tape) with Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger played on Saturday, 14 May 2016, at the INNtöne Jazz Festival in Diersbach (Upper Austria, Austria). The four interpret Pepl’s pieces, improvise on them and respond to his recordings from his home studio, the programme of the 2015 double CD. Der Standard, a Vienna daily, announced the concert as a „formidables Beispiel“ [“formidable example”] of an engagement with history that can „delikate Ergebnisse zeitigen“ [“yield delicate results”].
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10 June 2016
“Pepl Reloaded” at the Bruckner University Linz
Linz
At the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria, the “Harry Pepl Working Band” led by the singer and lecturer Agnes Heginger performs the evening “Pepl Reloaded”: students play Pepl’s compositions and improvise to his home-studio recordings of the Lonely Single Swinger Band, with Pepl heard on tape. The musicians include Stefan Bogensberger and Quang Huy Michael Vu (piano), Tao Deva Stingl (violin), Tobias Pöcksteiner (double bass), Michael Naphegyi and Raphael Schuster (drums), Lothar Beyschlag (trumpet), Klaus Trappl and Victoria Pfeil (saxophone), Sarah Koell (vocals) and Hasan Ibrahim (bouzouki).
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3 September 2016
Ö1 Jazznacht broadcasts the Pepl project from the INNtöne
Vienna
On Saturday, 3 September 2016, Christian Bakonyi's Ö1 Jazznacht broadcasts the recording from the INNtöne festival in Diersbach on 14 May 2016: Agnes Heginger, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch playing live together with recordings by Harry Pepl.
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23 September 2016
“A tribute to Harry Pepl” at the Tischlerei Melk
Melk
At the invitation of the Jazzclub Melk, Clemens Salesny (saxophone), Martin Bayer (guitar), Peter Primus Frosch (drums) and Agnes Heginger (vocals) play with Harry Pepl's home-studio tracks on Friday, 23 September 2016, at 8 p.m. at the Tischlerei Melk Kulturwerkstatt in Melk (Lower Austria, Austria); the poster lists Pepl (†) on guitar, piano, vocals and drums. The preview in the regional press called him a “giant of improvisation”.
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24 September 2016
“Vienna Roomservice” at the Porgy & Bess
Porgy & Bess, Vienna
At the JazzWerkstatt Wien festival “Vienna Roomservice”, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger play as “Harry Pepl (Tape) & Salesny/Bayer/Frosch/Heginger” on Saturday, 24 September 2016, at 8.30 pm at the Porgy & Bess, the city’s best-known jazz club, in Vienna, Austria; Möström plays on the same evening.
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13 June 2017
“Pepl meets ProgRock” at the Kulturzentrum Hof in Linz
Linz
Almost two weeks before the evening at the Porgy & Bess, Vienna’s best-known jazz club, Agnes Heginger presents two ensembles of the Anton Bruckner Private University on Tuesday, 13 June 2017, at 8 pm at the Kulturzentrum Hof in Linz (Upper Austria, Austria), with a homage to Harry Pepl and to the progressive rock era of Yes, King Crimson and Genesis.
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26 June 2017
“Pepl meets ProgRock” at Porgy & Bess
Porgy & Bess, Vienna
The singer and lecturer Agnes Heginger brings two ensembles of the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz to Porgy & Bess, Vienna’s best-known jazz club: a tribute to Harry Pepl with “Pepl Reloaded”, „wilder und freier österreichischer Jazz mit und inspiriert von Harry Pepl“ [“wild and free Austrian jazz with and inspired by Harry Pepl”], plus progressive rock by Yes, King Crimson and Genesis.
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27 October 2017
Gerald Gradwohl Group pays tribute to Pepl in Passau
Passau
The Passauer Neue Presse reported on Friday 27 October 2017 that the Gerald Gradwohl Group pays tribute to the late Viennese jazz guitarist, whom Gradwohl admires and from whom he has learned.
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2018
New formation “Harry Pepl & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band”
Austria
Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer, with Andi Schreiber on violin and Valentin Duit on drums, played a series of concerts with Pepl's material. Pepl's tracks came from their own stage amplifiers; Markus Wallner looked after the sound.
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12 November 2018
Premiere of the Single Swinger Band at Porgy & Bess
Vienna
To open the concert series, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andi Schreiber and Valentin Duit play with Pepl's tracks on Monday, 12 November 2018, at Porgy & Bess, the city’s best-known jazz club, in Vienna, Austria; Markus Wallner handles sound and playback.
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13 November 2018
Single Swinger Band at Tube's in Graz
Graz
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018, the quartet plays with Pepl's tracks at Tube's in Graz, Austria, as part of the Austrian Soundcheck festival. In the Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, Otmar Klammer wrote of a “multifaceted excursion through the Pepl cosmos” and called Pepl the band's real fifth man.
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15 November 2018
Single Swinger Band at the Brauhaus Breznik, Bleiburg
Bleiburg
On Thursday, 15 November 2018, the quartet plays with Pepl's tracks at the Brauhaus Breznik in Bleiburg, Carinthia, Austria.
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16 November 2018
Single Swinger Band at the Jazzit Salzburg
Salzburg
Under the title “A Tribute To Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band”, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andi Schreiber and Valentin Duit play with Pepl’s tracks on Friday, 16 November 2018, at the Jazzit in Salzburg, Austria; Markus Wallner is on sound.
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22 February 2019
Digital EP “Lonely Single Swinger Band (Art of Trio, Vol. 1)”
Vienna
The first release from the musical estate on Fullmax Recordings since 2015: four newly mixed pieces that Pepl recorded alone in his home studio.
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14 March 2019
Single Swinger Band at the Blue Tomato
Blue Tomato, Vienna
On Thursday, 14 March 2019, Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band plays at 8.30 pm at the Blue Tomato, a jazz club, in Vienna, Austria.
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25 October 2019 to 26 June 2021
Live recordings for the album “Live”
Vienna, Villach
The band recorded concerts at the Porgy & Bess (25 October 2019, July 2020), at the Blue Tomato (24 October 2020) and at the Bambergsaal Villach (26 June 2021). In August 2020 Franz Hautzinger played the trumpet on “Kunst II” in his home studio in France.
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25 October 2019
Single Swinger Band at the Porgy & Bess
Porgy & Bess, Vienna
Concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band at the Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club); recordings from it were released in 2025 on the album “Live”.
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