Cover: TCB Records
Guest appearances · 1996
Berlin 1980
Benny Goodman
Concert recording of Benny Goodman with a quintet, with Pepl as a guest in 1980; it includes Pepl's spontaneously improvised “Harry Pepl's Blues”.
- Year
- 1996
- Label
- TCB Records
- Catalogue number
- TCB 43022
- EAN/UPC
- 7619945430228
- Formats
- CD
- Harry Pepl
- sideman
- Project
- Benny Goodman Band 1980/81
- Recording
- 7 and 8 November 1980, Philharmonie Berlin; recorded by Kurt A. Mueller
- Archive ID
- HP-T-0055
Tracks
- 3 Harry Pepl's Blues 4:39
Pepl learned how to play swing with Goodman, but saw no impact on his later playing; for Goodman he played with a small amplifier and no reverb. The executive producers were Kurt A. Mueller and Peter Schmidlin; the label code LC 5370 is given by Kohler. The recording dates from 1980, the release from 1996.
According to France Musique (2016), Goodman took only his pianist Don Haas to Europe and auditioned Pepl, Peter “Fifi” Witte and Charly Antolini only there; none of the three spoke English, and the rehearsal was limited to two standards. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt attended the first concert. TCB reissued the CD in 2016.
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Benny Goodman: Harry Pepl's Blues (Berlin 1980, 1996)
“Harry Pepl’s Blues”, track 3 of the album “Berlin 1980” (TCB Records, 1996): Benny Goodman (clarinet), Harry Pepl (guitar), Don Haas (piano), Peter Witte (bass), Charly Antolini (drums). Recorded at the Berlin concerts of 1980, prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme on Harry Pepl’s 75th birthday.
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