Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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2020s
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15 May 2020 to 10 June 2020
Digital releases from the estate on Fullmax Recordings
Vienna
In May and June 2020 the following were released digitally: “Consequence” (15 May), the double CD from 2015 (18 May), “Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band (Volume One)” (20 May) and “N.Y.C. IMPRESSURE” (10 June).
Estate
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15 July 2020
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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10 September 2020
Ö1 marks his 75th birthday
On Thursday, 10 September 2020, the day on which Pepl would have turned 75, Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) marks the occasion in the music programme “Pasticcio” and plays “Air, Love & Vitamins”. The “Spielräume Special” on Harry Pepl follows on 25 September.
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25 September 2020
Ö1 “Spielräume Special” about Harry Pepl
Vienna
For the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) programme, Daniel Pepl compiled a chronological list of listening examples with commentary. The date is taken from the file name of the list.
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24 October 2020
Single Swinger Band at the Blue Tomato
Blue Tomato, Vienna
Concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band at the Blue Tomato, a jazz club, in Vienna; recordings from it were released in 2025 on the album “Live”.
Concerts
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26 June 2021
Single Swinger Band at the Bambergsaal Villach
Bambergsaal, Villach
Concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band at the Bambergsaal in Villach; recordings from it were released in 2025 on the album “Live”.
Concerts
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31 July 2021
Festival de Chaillol: the Tortiller and Fitzgerald-Michel duo plays Pepl
Rambaud, Hautes-Alpes, France
At the 25th Festival de Chaillol in the Hautes-Alpes (France), the duo Franck Tortiller (vibraphone) and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (guitar) play, on Saturday, 31 July 2021, to a full house, a piece by Harry Pepl alongside their own pieces and Monk’s “Bemsha Swing”, reports Le Dauphiné Libéré.
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25 September 2021
Les Arches en Jazz: Tortiller and Fitzgerald-Michel play “Air, Love and Vitamins”
Port-Bail-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
At the first “Les Arches en Jazz” festival in Port-Bail-sur-Mer (Cotentin, Normandy, France), the duo Franck Tortiller and Misja Fitzgerald-Michel play Pepl’s “Air, Love and Vitamins” on Saturday, 25 September 2021, at noon in the church of Notre-Dame; according to Citizen Jazz, a “gentle ballad” that leads into “a languorous meditation”.
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10 December 2021
Ö1 remembers the ORF Big Band
Vienna
For the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ORF Big Band, Ines Reiger and Klaus Wienerroither present a “Spielräume Nachtausgabe” on Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) on Friday, 10 December 2021. The programme text names Pepl alongside Fritz Pauer and Erich Bachträgl among the important Austrian musicians who complemented the orchestra’s international quality „kongenial“ [“congenially”].
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30 September 2023
Concert in Syrnau
Syrnau
The band played on Saturday 30 September 2023 at 8.15 pm at the sparkasse.event.raum in Syrnau near Zwettl.
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15 December 2023
Ö1 Jazztime with Stefan Heckel
Vienna
At the RadioCafe of the Vienna RadioKulturhaus, Stefan Heckel presents his solo piano album live on Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) on Friday, 15 December 2023, and talks with Johann Kneihs about his research into the method of instant composing, which ORF Teletext announces as that of the „großen Jazzgitarristen Harry Pepl“ [“great jazz guitarist Harry Pepl”].
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13 April 2024
Flip Philipp plays Pirchner and Pepl in Krems
Lower Austria
At the Salzstadl in Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria, Austria), the quartet of the vibraphonist Flip Philipp with Tobias Faulhammer, Stefan Bartus and Klemens Marktl plays the music of Werner Pirchner and his partner in the Jazzzwio, Harry Pepl, on Saturday, 13 April 2024, at the invitation of the association “That’s Jazz” and musik.aktuell.
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7 June 2024
“Live At H15 Studio” by the Kresten Osgood Quintet
Copenhagen
On the LP, featuring a live recording from the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2023, the quintet plays Pepl's “The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues”.
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July 2024
Stefan Heckel's dissertation “Instant Composing”
Vienna
Stefan Heckel submitted his dissertation on Pepl's late work at the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) in Vienna, Austria, supervised by Harald Huber.
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14 November 2024
Flip Philipp plays Pirchner and Pepl in Bruck an der Leitha
Lower Austria
At the invitation of the cultural association Freiraum, Flip Philipp (vibraphone) plays music by Werner Pirchner and Harry Pepl at the Seidl-Keller in Bruck an der Leitha (Lower Austria, Austria) on Thursday, 14 November 2024, at 8 pm, with Bertl Mayer (harmonica), Tobias Faulhammer (guitar), Pista Bartus (bass) and Klemens Marktl (drums). The NÖN, the regional weekly of Lower Austria, afterwards writes of the „Ausnahmegitarristen Harry Pepl“ [“exceptional guitarist Harry Pepl”] and of an audience listening „teilweise mucksmäuschenstill“ [“at times as quiet as a mouse”].
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2025
The Kahr and Harms duo plays Pepl
Vienna
In the duo project “Jazz & the City (…and me)”, the pianist and jazz researcher Michael Kahr and the saxophonist Martin Harms interpret repertoire associated with musicians of Viennese jazz, among them Erich Kleinschuster, the Austrian jazz trombonist, Vera Auer, Fritz Pauer and Harry Pepl. In 2025 the duo performs at the Kultursommer Wien and records for Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel).
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27 April 2025
“Air, Love & Vitamins” on the glockenspiel in St. Pölten
St. Pölten
In spring 2025 the glockenspiel on the town hall tower of St. Pölten, the capital of the Austrian state of Lower Austria, plays “Air, Love & Vitamins”, every day from 5.30 pm until the end of June, according to Harry Pepl's son Daniel Pepl. He films it on Sunday, 27 April 2025.
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11 June 2025
Jazz-Zwio 2.0 at the Treibhaus Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol
For Werner Pirchner’s 85th birthday, Matthias Legner (vibraphone) and Clemens Rofner (bass) play as “Jazz-Zwio 2.0” at the Treibhaus Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria), twelve years after their first programme of Jazzzwio pieces.
Concerts
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22 August 2025
Album “Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band: Live”
Vienna
The album was released digitally on Friday 22 August 2025 on Fullmax Recordings (distributed by Hoanzl); the distributor lists the CD with the date 26 September 2025. It contains concert recordings of the band playing to Pepl's original tracks.
Estate
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6 September 2025
Ö1 Jazznacht for the 80th birthday
Vienna
Christian Bakonyi presented the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) Jazznacht for the 80th birthday on Saturday 6 September 2025, with Daniel Pepl, Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer.
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10 September 2025
80th birthday
Pepl would have turned 80 on Wednesday 10 September 2025. The press text for the album is titled “Harry Pepl 80”.
Life
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22 September 2025
Nomination for the Austrian Jazz Award
Vienna
On Monday, 22 September 2025, the Austrian Jazz Award (award for jazz from Austria) announces its nominees: from 174 submissions, the Jazz Award Academy of 149 experts chose the album “Live” by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band as one of the ten nominees for Best Album. The ranking is published on Monday, 27 October 2025, and the ceremony follows on 26 November in Velden.
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28 September 2025
Concert at the Porgy & Bess
Vienna
The band, with Salesny, Bayer, Schreiber, Duit and Markus Wallner on sound, played at the Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) in Vienna on Sunday 28 September 2025, also as a stream.
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26 October 2025
Death of Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette dies on Sunday, 26 October 2025, aged 83, in Woodstock (New York, USA). The APA report on his death states on Monday, 27 October, that Pepl was the only Austrian musician to record three albums with him in the 1980s; the Salzburger Nachrichten, a Salzburg daily, recall the recordings on ECM (the renowned European jazz label) with Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and Pepl.
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26 November 2025
Austrian Jazz Award: 2nd place for “Live”
Velden
At the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 (award for jazz from Austria) at Casino Velden on Wednesday 26 November 2025, the album took 2nd place in the Best Album category, behind the Kenji Herbert Trio and ahead of the Tobias Meissl Trio.
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16 December 2025
Single Swinger Band in the Open Music series at the Stockwerk in Graz
Stockwerk, Graz
Concert by Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band with Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Andreas Schreiber, Valentin Duit and Markus Wallner on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, at 8 pm in the Open Music series at the Stockwerk in Graz, according to the Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, the last Open Music concert of the year; the Kleine Zeitung and the Kronen Zeitung reported on Thursday, 18 December 2025.
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24 June 2026
Ö1 Radiosession with Michael Kahr and Martin Harms
Vienna
In the relaunched “Ö1 Radiosession”, Klaus Wienerroither talks on Wednesday, 24 June 2026, with the pianist Michael Kahr and the saxophonist Martin Harms; their duo project “Jazz & the City” is devoted to figures of jazz in Vienna, expressly including Harry Pepl. Ö1 (ORF’s cultural radio station) had announced the duo on 27 May 2026 among the first guests of the series, with repertoire „von Anton Karas bis Harry Pepl“ [“from Anton Karas to Harry Pepl”].
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