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Where Harry Pepl played, from Montreux to New York

Festivals and venues

Harry Pepl's music travelled internationally. With the Jazzzwio, with Air Mail, with Benny Goodman, the Vienna Art Orchestra and the Rava/Saluzzi Quintet he played all over Europe and beyond, at the major jazz festivals, in concert halls and in clubs: especially often in France and Switzerland, and also in Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and the USA. On these travels he got to know musicians such as Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell. The overview grows with every new find from the archive.

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Festivals

Germany

  • Jazzfest Berlin (international jazz festival of the Berliner Festspiele): 06.11.1981 with the Jazzzwio at the Metropol. That evening the first piece was called “Berlin '81, die Erste” (“Berlin '81, the first”).1 The Berliner Festspiele announced the evening in the music magazine Sounds for 11 pm, on a double bill with Defunkt; according to the Rockpalast archive, a private fan archive on the WDR television programme Rockpalast, it was one of a series of Rockpalast recordings at the Metropol.2 As early as November 1980 Pepl played in Berlin with Benny Goodman, the “King of Swing”, at the Berliner Philharmonie, the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (see below).
  • Donaueschingen Music Days (one of the oldest festivals of contemporary music, since 1921, now run by SWR): Saturday, 17 October 1981, in the Donauhalle in the SWF Jazz Session with the Vienna Art Orchestra, “Jonny tritt ab” by Mathias Rüegg.3
  • Jazz in Neuwied (jazz festival in Neuwied on the Rhine, Rhineland-Palatinate): first in June 1980 with Werner Pirchner as the Pirchner/Pepl Duo at the 3rd Festival for Contemporary Music (Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June 1980, Engers sports hall), on the same poster as Albert Mangelsdorff, the Gary Burton Quartet, the Pat Metheny Group and Egberto Gismonti4; in June 1982 again with Werner Pirchner and Jack DeJohnette. This is where Pepl got to know Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell.5 The festival's programme overview on Wikipedia also lists “Pirchner / Pepl” at the 4th festival in June 1981 and “Harry Pepl’s Airmail” at the 9th festival in June 1986, alongside the Dave Holland Quintet and the John Scofield Band; the tour plan of Air Mail printed in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, a local paper in Tyrol, also names Neuwied among the festivals of May and June 1986. The day and venue of this appearance are not yet documented.6
  • Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt (Germany's oldest jazz festival, organised by Hessischer Rundfunk): 02.10.1982 with the Jazzzwio in the Great Hall of the Alte Oper, with titles such as “Wiener essen Frankfurter” and “Frankfurter essen Wiener” (“Viennese eat frankfurters”, “Frankfurters eat wieners”).1
  • Donaueschinger Musiktage (new music festival of Südwestrundfunk): October 1982 with the Vienna Art Orchestra.
  • Festival Moers (festival for jazz and improvised music on the Lower Rhine): Whit Monday, 11 June 1984, with Air Mail in the ice rink hall, with Karl “Bumi” Fian as guest.7
  • NDR Jazzworkshop (concert series of Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg): 21.06.1984 (workshop no. 191 in Studio 10 of the NDR broadcasting house) with Werner Pirchner, Steve Swallow and the Family of Percussion; 10.10.1986 with the Rava/Saluzzi Quintet and the NDR Bigband.8
  • Jazz in Gütersloh (concert series in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia): 13.10.1986 with the Rava/Saluzzi Quintet.
Black-and-white photo among gongs, barrels and drums: on the left Harry Pepl with his guitar, in the middle Werner Pirchner at the vibraphone, on the right Steve Swallow on bass guitar, in front percussionists of the Family of Percussion. Probably at the NDR jazz workshop with the Family of Percussion on 21 June 1984 in Hamburg, Germany; names according to the family.
With Werner Pirchner, Steve Swallow and the Family of Percussion, 1984Photo: musical estate, private collection

Austria

  • Jazzfestival Saalfelden (international jazz festival in the Salzburg region): September 1980 with the Jazzzwio. Jack DeJohnette spontaneously came on stage, which led to the trio of the 1983 ECM record.
  • Ars Electronica (festival for art, technology and society in Linz): October 1982, “Jazz und Elektronik” (“Jazz and electronics”).
  • steirischer herbst (festival of contemporary art in Styria, Austria): 1977 with Marianne Mendt in Deutschlandsberg (Friday, 07.10.1977, festival hall of the Arbeiterkammer, the Chamber of Labour), 1982 at the World Music Days of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) at the Graz Congress with the Steirische Herbst Band under Erich Kleinschuster (30.10.1982), 1984 with the Michel Portal Unit at the Schlachthof in Graz (23.09.1984, “Falso Loco” series), 1985 with the Jazzzwio in New York (15.05.1985), Kindberg (23.10.1985) and Graz (24.10.1985) and in a trio with Daniel Humair and Jean-François Jenny-Clark in Graz (17.10.1985).9
  • INNtöne (jazz festival in Upper Austria, then in Raab): 1993 the last concert of Air Mail; on Whit Sunday, 22.05.1994, during the festival from 20 to 23.05.1994, a duo with Jack DeJohnette, which the Slovak music magazine Hudobný život also reported10; on Friday, 05.12., and Saturday, 06.12.1997, at the festival weekend at Zell an der Pram Castle, no longer a concert of his own after his withdrawal from the stage, but taking part in changing line-ups: on the Friday with the trumpeter Franz Hackl, first on piano, then on drums, on the Saturday with Michel Portal, Stephen Kent, Wolfgang Reisinger and Steve Shehan; whether he also played guitar there remains open.11
  • Graz Meeting (jazz festival of the Graz music academy and the cultural association gamsbART, dedicated to string instruments in 1994 under the motto “Strings”): Wednesday, 20.04.1994, the Harry Pepl Quartet with Wolfgang Puschnig at the Orpheum, on the same evening as Derek Bailey. The Österreichische Mediathek (Austrian Mediathek), Austria’s archive of sound and video recordings, holds an unreleased recording and the broadcast “Aus dem Konzertsaal” by Ö1, ORF’s cultural radio station (available only on site).12
  • Salzburger Jazzherbst (jazz festival in Salzburg): 2004.

Switzerland, France and other countries

  • Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland): 12.07.1981 with the Jazzzwio. The recording was released as the LP “Live, Montreux '81” and is regarded as the first big step of his international career.13 Billboard, the US music trade magazine, announced the evening in the festival programme on 27.06.1981, with Pepl alongside James “Blood” Ulmer, Biréli Lagrène, Lee Ritenour and Larry Coryell.14
  • Maur (near Zurich, Switzerland): in May or June 1986 with Air Mail at a festival, according to the tour plan in the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck; the day and organiser are still open.15
  • Théâtre de l'Atelier (theatre in Paris, France): Monday, 30 May 1983, in the concert “Daniel Humair and Friends” with Daniel Humair, Dave Holland, Joachim Kühn, Werner Pirchner and other guests. Radio France (France's public radio broadcaster) recorded the evening; Pepl played his “Good-bye, Baby Post”.16
  • Angoulême jazz festival (France): Sunday, 10 June 1984, with Michel Portal Plus, the large line-up of Michel Portal; Radio France recorded the concert, and France Musique broadcast excerpts.17
  • Festival de Jazz de Paris (jazz festival in Paris, France): Saturday, 27 October 1984, with Tenor Madness around Daniel Humair, and Monday, 3 November 1986, with the quintet of Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi; Radio France recorded both concerts.17
  • Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France): 22.03.1985. According to his own information sheet, Pepl also played in Paris at the Musée d'Art Moderne and the Centre Pompidou, and with Werner Pirchner at IRCAM (research institute for music and acoustics).18
  • Banlieues Bleues (jazz festival in the Seine-Saint-Denis département near Paris, France, since 1984): Friday, 7 March 1986, with Michel Portal, Jack DeJohnette, Mino Cinelu and Jean-François Jenny-Clark at the Salle des fêtes in Montreuil.19
  • Jazz sous les pommiers (jazz festival in Coutances, Normandy, France, since 1982): Saturday, 10 May 1986, with Air Mail at the theatre, on the closing night of the 5th edition; according to the festival, the band's first concert in France. Writing for Jazz Hot, the French jazz magazine founded in 1935, Alain Guerrini discovered “un groupe prodigieux” there, a prodigious group.20
  • New Morning (jazz club in Paris, France): Wednesday, 14 May 1986, with Air Mail, announced in the Paris concert listings as the Harry Pepl Quartet.21 According to the INA, Radio France recorded Air Mail in Paris on Thursday, 15 May 1986; whether on the same evening is open.17
  • Festival international de jazz d'Amiens (jazz festival of the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, France): in May 1986 with Air Mail at the 5th festival, then called “Le temps du jazz” (13 to 24 May 1986; concert review by Franck Bergerot in Jazz Hot, recording preserved, day still open) and on Saturday, 30 May 1987, with the Michel Portal Unit, live recording “Men's Land”.22 The regional television channel FR3 broadcast recordings of Air Mail from the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens in January 1987; the complete radio recording of the 1987 concert by Radio France is held by the INA.17
  • Debreceni Jazznapok (Debrecen Jazz Days, Hungary; according to the local paper in 1979 the country’s largest representative jazz festival): Friday, 07.09.1979, at midnight in the Bartók Hall in a guitar duo with Voja Brković; the festival review ranked the duo among the top group.23
  • Bratislava Jazz Days (jazz festival in Bratislava, Slovakia): December 1982.
  • Naissus Jazz (jazz festival in Niš, Serbia): October 1985.
  • Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy): July 1985, Jazzzwio with Don Moye.
  • Jazz Jamboree (international jazz festival in Warsaw, Poland, since 1958): 25 to 28 October 1984, according to the family; the line-up is not yet documented; probably with Wolfgang Puschnig, possibly also Harry Sokal (the family's assumption, not documented). The festival poster later hung in Pepl's home studio in Hernstein. According to the Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck of 1986, a festival in Warsaw, along with Moers and Cologne, was part of Air Mail's international debut; the paper gives no year.24
  • Bilsak Caz Festivali (international jazz festival in Istanbul, Turkey, 1985 to 1989): at the 2nd festival on Friday, 26.09.1986, with Air Mail and on Saturday, 27.09.1986, with the quintet of Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi, both times at the Şan Tiyatrosu; the festival then moved on to Ankara.25
  • Kyiv (Ukraine): 1994 with Hélène Labarrière, Gene Jackson and Wolfgang Mitterer, one of his last concert series.
  • Pori Jazz (jazz festival in Pori, Finland, held every year since 1966, one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe): at the 27th festival in July 1992 in the band that the festival archive lists as “John Purcell´s Blue Brass Connection”, with the Upper Austrian trombonist Paul Zauner and his Blue Brass Connection, with John Purcell, Graham Haynes, Ron Burton, Kenny Davis and Ronnie Burrage, the core of the later band Abstract Truth: Friday, 17.07.1992, on the main stage at Kirjurinluoto in a programme starting at 5 pm that the archive also lists for Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, in the evening at the Village Gate, and Saturday, 18.07.1992, at the Nuorisokeskus (youth centre). It is the only Pori appearance by Pepl recorded in the festival archive.26

At the Pori Jazz Festival, probably July 1992

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John Purcell, Kenny Davis, Ronnie Burrage and Harry Pepl. YouTube channel Ronnie Burrage.
  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe (the open-access festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom): according to Martin Mumelter with Mumelters Concertodrom, which also played in England, probably in London; the year is open, and Kohler names the Edinburgh Festival for the 1975 tour.27
  • According to Pepl's information sheet also: Edinburgh (Scotland), Warsaw (Poland), Geneva (Switzerland) and Ankara (Turkey).18
  • According to Pepl’s short biography of 2000 (Sammlung Essl), also the festivals in Leverkusen (Germany), Ancona (Italy) and Le Mans (France), as well as concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (London, United Kingdom) and the Vienna Konzerthaus, one of Vienna’s two great concert halls.28
  • San Sebastián Jazz Festival (Jazzaldia, one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe, Spain).29
  • According to Daniel Pepl, Harry Pepl also played a great deal in France and Switzerland, as well as in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Italy and the former Yugoslavia. We add individual dates as soon as posters, programmes or recordings turn up.29

USA

  • Beyond the Sound of Music: New Austria/New York (Austrian focus of the steirischer herbst in New York): 15.05.1985, Jazzzwio at the Ohio Theatre.30
  • Knitting Factory (New York club for new jazz): June 1992 with the Harry Pepl Quartet.
In Linz, Austria, in October 1986: in front Enrico Rava on flugelhorn, behind him Dino Saluzzi on bandoneon (left) and Harry Pepl on guitar (right). The album “Volver” was recorded the same month at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Enrico Rava, Dino Saluzzi and Harry Pepl, Linz 1986Photo: Felix Nöbauer
Poster of the international jazz festival Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw, Poland, 25 to 28 October 1984, as it hung in the home studio in Hernstein, Lower Austria, Austria. According to the family, Pepl performed there in 1984; line-up and programme are not yet documented; probably with Wolfgang Puschnig, possibly also Harry Sokal (the family's assumption, not documented).
Jazz Jamboree 84 poster, Warsaw, 1984Photo: musical estate, private collection

Clubs and concert halls

Vienna

  • Jazzspelunke (jazz club in the Dürergasse, Mariahilf): late 1980 or early 1981 with Werner Pirchner and Jack DeJohnette; 30.03.1985 with Air Mail. At a concert in a quartet with Pirchner, Marc Johnson and Joris Dudli, Pat Metheny came specially to the packed club to hear Pepl.31
  • Titanic (club in the Theobaldgasse, Mariahilf): with Air Mail; the evening the power failed and Pepl played Wes Montgomery acoustically by candlelight became legendary.32
  • Miles Smiles (jazz club in the Lange Gasse, Josefstadt): 12.05.1985 with the Jazzzwio, released in 2003 as “Live At Miles Smiles”.
  • Wiener Musikverein (concert hall of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde): 16.03.1989 with the Ensemble Wien, 06.05.1993 premiere of the string quartet “Über Kurz oder Lang” by the Artis Quartet, 10.03.1996 recording of the piano album “Flow” in the Brahms Hall.
  • Funkhaus Wien (ORF broadcasting house): 25.09.1975 with Hip Jargon and Werner Pirchner.
  • Szene Wien (concert hall in Hauffgasse, Simmering): Saturday, 16 April, probably 1988, trio with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen for the LP “Cracked Mirrors” (according to the poster).
  • Blue Tomato (jazz club in the 15th district): 17.09.2004 “Habanero-Slide-Show”.
  • Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club): Saturday, 05.12.2015, presentation of the double CD for the 10th anniversary of his death with Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch, Agnes Heginger and the guests Dominik Fuss and Raphael Preuschl, live with Pepl's multitrack recordings of the Lonely Single Swinger Band (Porgy & Bess programme); since 2018 the stage of the Lonely Single Swinger Band, most recently on 28.09.2025.

Other places in Austria

  • Graz: Austria Drei (01.04.1982, Catholic student house Münzgraben, Jazz M59 series), Congress (30.10.1982, Steirische Herbst Band at the ISCM World Music Days), Schlachthof with Portal Unit (23.09.1984), Catholic student house Münzgraben also on 17.10.1985 (trio with Daniel Humair and Jean-François Jenny-Clark) and on 24.10.1985 (Jazzzwio), concert with Friedrich Gulda (1979), Tube's (13.11.2018, at the Austrian Soundcheck festival), Stockwerk (2025).
  • Linz: February 1985 with Air Mail and October 1986 with the Rava/Saluzzi Quintet, in the month “Volver” was recorded (photos: Felix Noebauer)33; Posthof (arts centre, 20.04.1988, Cracked Mirrors live).
Harry Pepl on guitar at a concert with Air Mail in Linz, Austria, in February 1985.
Harry Pepl with Air Mail, Linz 1985Photo: Felix Nöbauer
Green poster of the Szene Wien (Hauffgasse 26, Vienna-Simmering, Austria) for the concert by Harry Pepl, Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen on Saturday, 16 April, 8 pm, referring to the LP “Cracked Mirror” on ECM. The year is not on the poster; judging by the weekday and the tour, probably 1988.
Szene Wien poster: Pepl, Joos, Christensen, 1988Photo: musical estate, private collection
Poster of the Graz concert series Jazz M59 (published by the Afro-Asian Institute Graz, editor Heimo Steps) for Austria Drei on Thursday, 1 April 1982, 8 pm, at the Catholic student house Münzgraben in Graz, Austria: Werner Pirchner (vibraphone), Harry Pepl (guitar), Adelhard Roidinger (bass), Mike Di Pasqua (drums).
Austria Drei poster, Graz, 1 April 1982Photo: musical estate, private collection
  • Salzburg: Elisabethbühne (22.01.1984, with Pirchner and Michael Di Pasqua), Jazzit (16.11.2018).
  • Melk (Lower Austria): Tischlerei Melk Kulturwerkstatt, 23.09.2016, “A tribute to Harry Pepl” at the invitation of the Jazzclub Melk.
  • Mödling (Lower Austria): for the Jazzforum Mödling (jazz association founded in 1978) on Friday, 02.02.1979, with the Jazzzwio (venue St. Michael, photos: Erich Petzwinkler), later in the association's Jazzkeller: in 1983 with the Austrian Project, in a quartet with Marc Johnson and Joris Dudli and again with the Jazzzwio, in 1985 twice with Air Mail and with Werner Pirchner and Don Moye, in 1986 with Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi, in 1988 with Harry Pepl's Funk Schrank and in a trio with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley.34
  • Innsbruck: Konservatoriumssaal (25.03.1984, Jazzzwio).
  • Landeck (Tyrol): Hotel Sonne, Thursday, 19 June 1986, with Air Mail, according to the announcement the last concert before the summer break.35
  • Deutschlandsberg (Styria): festival hall of the Arbeiterkammer, Friday, 07.10.1977, with Marianne Mendt.9
  • Kindberg (Styria): Gasthof Prettenthaler, Wednesday, 23.10.1985, Jazzzwio in a double concert with the Martin Wiederhofer Trio (“Mürztaler Werkstatt” series of the steirischer herbst).9
  • Tamsweg, Katsdorf, Kindberg, St. Gerold, Villach and Bleiburg: concerts with Herbert Joos, Tony Oxley, Jon Christensen, the Jazzzwio and Air Mail, and after 2018 with the Lonely Single Swinger Band.

Germany

  • Kölner Stadtgarten (jazz club and concert venue in Cologne): 1989 with the trio Pepl, Joos, Christensen; the concert was recorded for television.
  • Dieselstraße Esslingen (cultural centre in Esslingen am Neckar): December 1988 with Herbert Joos and Tony Oxley.
  • Berliner Philharmonie: Friday, 7 and Saturday, 8 November 1980, two concerts with Benny Goodman and his quintet, with Don Haas, Peter Witte and Charly Antolini; the recording was released in 1993 on “B.G. World-Wide” and in 1996 as the CD “Berlin 1980”, including Pepl’s spontaneously created “Harry Pepl's Blues”. Pepl's information sheet also mentions the Philharmonie.3618

Slovenia and Croatia (then Yugoslavia)

  • ŠKUC (Študentski kulturni center, the Student Cultural Centre in the old town of Ljubljana, Slovenia): for Wednesday, 27.10.1982, at 7 pm, ŠKUC, together with the Austrian Cultural Institute in Zagreb, announced a concert by the Jazzzwio, with Pepl on electric and acoustic guitar and Werner Pirchner on tenor vibraphone and marimba; the Slovenian daily Delo printed the announcement on the day before and on the day of the concert.37
  • Student Centre in Zagreb (Studentski centar, Croatia): in October 1982 the Jazzzwio in the music salon of the Student Centre. In the Slovenian music magazine Glasbena mladina, the critic Miro Križič praised the combination of Pirchner’s prepared vibraphone and the modern guitar, which, he wrote, had created “a wealth of musical ideas, rhythms and brilliant improvisations” (translated from the Slovenian).38

All dated performances are also listed in the chronicle. Is a festival, a club or a poster missing? We welcome hints via Contribute.

Notes and sources (38)
  1. Kohler 2006, p. 86, after an archive extract from Hessischer Rundfunk and the setlist in the Rockpalast archive. ↩
  2. Sounds, vol. 13, issue 10, October 1981, p. 64 (advertisement of the Berliner Festspiele); Rockpalast archive and production list, accessed 19 October 2026. ↩
  3. Archive of the Donaueschingen Music Days (SWR), event SWF-Jazz-Session (online), accessed 19 October 2026; Kohler 2006, p. 47, gives 1982. ↩
  4. Festival poster “3. Festival für zeitgenössische Musik Neuwied, 14.-15. Juni '80” (organiser JIN), estate. ↩
  5. Kohler 2006, p. 87; photo “Jazz in Neuwied, June 1982” from the estate. ↩
  6. Wikipedia (German), article “Jazzfestival Neuwied”, programme overview without individual references, version of 20 June 2026; Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25, 20 June 1986, p. 5. ↩
  7. moers festival, archive 1980 to 1989, accessed 19 October 2026; Kohler 2006, p. 91; Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25, 20 June 1986, p. 5. ↩
  8. Kohler 2006, p. 87 (archive extract of the NDR Bigband; Jazzlive no. 14, September 1984, p. 16); Kohler 2006, pp. 101 to 102. ↩
  9. Archive of the steirischer herbst, projects 27371 (1977), 1429 (1982), 1259 (1984), 797, 27431, 1511 and 1385 (1985), online, accessed 19 October 2026. ↩
  10. Kronen Zeitung, 24 May 1994, p. 17; Der Standard, 24 May 1994, p. 10; Hudobný život, no. 11, 8 June 1994, p. 7 (“Infojazz č. 2/94”, compiled by Yvetta Lábska for the Slovak Jazz Society). ↩
  11. Harald Liehmann, “World Groove Music mitten im Innviertel”, OÖ Volksblatt, 10 December 1997, p. 28 (Friday piano and drums with Franz Hackl, Saturday “piano, guitar”); Robert Urmann, “Wiederholt wechselnde Bündnisse”, OÖ Nachrichten, 9 December 1997 (piano and drums, with Michel Portal “as a string player”); Christian Rösner, “Musikleckerbissen bei Inntönen”, Wiener Zeitung, 11 November 1997, p. 4 (preview: “Pepl is not playing guitar but piano”, in connection with his new CD on PAO Records); no more concerts of his own after 1994: statement by Daniel Pepl, 20 October 2026. ↩
  12. APA-Basisdienst, 16 February 1994; Kronen Zeitung, 20 April 1994, p. 34; Österreichische Mediathek, catalogue: “Harry Pepl Quartet 20.04.1994 (1)”, recorded at the Orpheum, Graz, and “Aus dem Konzertsaal: Graz Meeting 1994 (2)”, accessed 19 October 2026. ↩
  13. Wochenpresse, 1988, p. 1; Live In Concerts, liner notes 2009. ↩
  14. Billboard, vol. 93, no. 25, 27 June 1981, p. 65 (“15th Montreux Begins July 3”). ↩
  15. Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25, 20 June 1986, p. 5 (Air Mail's tour plan). ↩
  16. INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), TV-Radio catalogue, note PHY14005123, “Jazz au Théâtre de l'Atelier : Concert du Daniel Humair and Friends”, Radio France, 30 May 1983 (online); the note swaps the instruments of Pepl and Pirchner (information from Daniel Pepl, 19 October 2026). ↩
  17. INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel), TV-Radio catalogue, records PHY14005306, PHY11002999, PHY13030614, PHY14005647, PHY11006057_00, PHY11006111, RCC02013106 and PHY14005763 (search “harry pepl”), accessed 19 October 2026. ↩
  18. Harry Pepl, information sheet “Infos Harry Pepl” with biography, list of works and Instant Composing, 1996, pp. 1 to 3. ↩
  19. Banlieues Bleues archive, concert of 7 March 1986 (online); captions by the photographer Guy Le Querrec, Magnum Photos (rehearsals on 5 March 1986 at the club Jazz à Paris, concert on 7 March 1986 in Montreuil). ↩
  20. Jazz sous les pommiers archive, 1986 edition and artist entry “Air Mail”, accessed 19 October 2026; Jazz Hot, no. 432, July/August 1986, p. 15 (Alain Guerrini, “Du jazz sous les pommiers”). ↩
  21. Tempo (Paris), no. 3, 15 April 1986, p. 7; information from Daniel Pepl, 19 October 2026. ↩
  22. Jazz Hot, no. 432, July/August 1986, p. 16 (Franck Bergerot, “Amiens : le temps du jazz”); recording from the Amiens jazz festival 1986 in the family archive (YouTube channel Fullmax Recordings); Différences (monthly magazine of MRAP, the French movement against racism), no. 56, May 1986, p. 40 (festival dates); Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25, 20 June 1986, p. 5; Label Bleu, “Men's Land” (LP 1987, CD 1988). ↩
  23. Hajdú-Bihari Napló (Debrecen), no. 209, 7 September 1979, pp. 2 and 8; no. 217, 16 September 1979, p. 8 (Gábor Turi); digitised in the EPA of the National Széchényi Library. ↩
  24. Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25, 20 June 1986, p. 5 (Air Mail's profile). ↩
  25. Bizim Caz (database of jazz in Turkey), concerts of 26 and 27 September 1986, festival page and poster of the 2nd Bilsak Caz Festivali, online, accessed 19 October 2026. ↩
  26. Pori Jazz Archives (festival archive), festival year 1992, entry “John Purcell´s Blue Brass Connection” and daily programmes for 17 and 18 July 1992 (online), accessed 19 October 2026; English Wikipedia, article “Pori Jazz”, accessed 19 October 2026; video on Ronnie Burrage’s YouTube channel; Daniel Pepl, oral communication, 16.10.2026; Pepl’s information sheet 1996, pp. 1 to 3. ↩
  27. Information from Martin Mumelter, 19 October 2026; Kohler 2006, pp. 31 to 33. ↩
  28. Sammlung Essl, programme “Einkreisung”, 1 April 2000, short biography of Harry Pepl. ↩
  29. Daniel Pepl, oral communication, 16.10.2026. ↩
  30. Letter from the steirischer herbst to Harry Pepl, 25.03.1985; New York Times, 18.05.1985. ↩
  31. Kohler 2006, p. 87 (interview 1-38); Thomas Palme, memory posted on Facebook, 10.09.2026. ↩
  32. Thomas Palme (Viennese jazz and blues guitarist), memory posted on Facebook for Pepl's 81st birthday, 10.09.2026. ↩
  33. Felix Noebauer, photos on Facebook, 20.08.2026 and 10.09.2026 (Linz, February 1985, Air Mail; Linz, October 1986, Enrico Rava, Dino Saluzzi, Harry Pepl), shared by ECM Records. ↩
  34. Jazzforum Mödling, chronology and picture archive “Jazz Zwio, 2.2.'79”, accessed 17.10.2026. ↩
  35. Gemeindeblatt für den Bezirk Landeck, no. 25, 20 June 1986, p. 5 (“Jazz-Formation »Air Mail« gastiert in Landeck”). ↩
  36. Information from Daniel Pepl, 19 October 2026; Benny Goodman, “Berlin 1980” (TCB Records, 1996), recording details: 7 and 8 November 1980, Philharmonie Berlin; Kohler 2006, pp. 50 to 54; letter from Kurt A. Müller to Harry Pepl, 15 November 1980. ↩
  37. Delo (Ljubljana), no. 250, 26 October 1982, p. 11, and no. 251, 27 October 1982, p. 11, digitised by the Digital Library of Slovenia (dLib.si), accessed 19 October 2026. ↩
  38. Miro Križič, “Plodna jazzovska jesen ’82 v Zagrebu”, Glasbena mladina, vol. 13, no. 5, 18 February 1983, p. 8, digitised by the Digital Library of Slovenia (dLib.si), accessed 19 October 2026. ↩

Last updated: 20 Oct 2026