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Recordings during his lifetime · 1981
Live, Montreux '81
Pirchner / Pepl / Jazzzwio
Live recording of the Jazzzwio concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival (renowned jazz festival in Switzerland) on 12 July 1981, according to Concerto the first major step in Pepl's international career.
- Year
- 1981
- Label
- WEA
- Catalogue number
- WEA 58 393
- Formats
- LP
- Harry Pepl
- co-leader
- Project
- Jazzzwio
- Recording
- 12 July 1981, Montreux Jazz Festival (Casino), introduced by Claude Nobs
- Reissued
- 2009: Universal/EmArcy “Live In Concerts” (CD and DVD)
- Archive ID
- HP-T-0030
Tracks
- The Day We Know Paul Desmond Is Gone 14:22
- Against The Wind 7:38
- Germ In A. 3:50
Pepl played an Aria guitar, Pirchner a Deagan vibraphone. A professional video recording was in Pepl's possession and was not released until 2009 on the DVD “Live In Concerts”. The database of the Montreux Jazz Festival lists the concert (EPFL, concert 677).
Listen and watch
Harry Pepl & Werner Pirchner · JazzZwio live at Montreux 1981 (Part 1)
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Harry Pepl & Werner Pirchner · JazzZwio live at Montreux 1981 (Part 2)
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In the press
- 27 June 1981 Billboard (US-Musikfachzeitschrift mit den Branchen-Charts, gegründet 1894): International: „15th Montreux Begins July 3“ (Vol. 93, Nr. 25)
- 1985 Sterz, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kulturpolitik (Graz), Nr. 32: „Der Riese aus dem Fuchsloch. Eine Anbiederung an Werner Pirchner, hingehudelt“
- 6 December 2005 Kleine Zeitung (Seite 55, Kultur): „Auch die 2. Hälfte vom ‚Jazzzwio‘ ist nicht mehr“
- 13 March 2007 Deutschlandfunk, Nachtradio (Playlist): „Milestones - Harry Pepl“ (Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte)
- 6 April 2021 Wiener Zeitung (Seite 18, Feuilleton): „Gegengift zum Corona-Blues“
- 2 August 2021 Ö1 (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Solo am Genfer See: Harri Stojka“
