Recordings during his lifetime · 1983
Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Jack DeJohnette
Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette
The Jazzzwio, expanded into a trio with Jack DeJohnette; the album contains “Air, Love and Vitamins” and received the German Record Critics' Award (German award for outstanding recordings, chosen by a jury of critics).
- Released
- 1 April 1983
- Label
- ECM Records
- Catalogue number
- ECM 1237 / 2301 237
- Formats
- LP
- Harry Pepl
- co-leader
- Projects
- Jazzzwio
Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Jack DeJohnette - Recording
- Sunday afternoon in June 1982, Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg (recorded digitally); producer Manfred Eicher
- Reissued
- 9 August 2019: digital reissue, remastered
- Archive ID
- HP-T-0036
Tracks
Dave Holland had been planned as bassist but dropped out; Pepl later said it was simply the Jazzzwio plus somebody else, and that with Holland it would have been a completely different music. There are differing accounts of the award: Kohler and mica (Austria's music information centre) give the German Record Critics' Award in 1983, while the Österreichisches Musiklexikon speaks of a nomination. Pepl’s own short biography of 2000 (Sammlung Essl) clarifies: the album was on the quarterly list (Vierteljahresliste, best-of list) of the German Record Critics’ Award. The album has never been released on CD; a digital reissue followed on 9 August 2019. Heckel mistakenly gives 1984. The track information is incomplete: only pieces with documented composition by Pepl are recorded.
Listen and watch
Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette: Air, Love And Vitamins (Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette, 1983)
“Air, Love And Vitamins” (Harry Pepl), track 2 of the ECM album by Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette (1983, digitally remastered and reissued digitally in 2019), 7:19. The version with Jack DeJohnette, prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme.
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In the press
- 9 March 1985 Cash Box (US-Musikfachzeitschrift mit eigenen Charts): Jazz: „On Jazz“, Abschnitt „Label Hopping“ (Vol. 48, Nr. 39)
- 16 March 1985 Billboard (US-Musikfachzeitschrift mit den Branchen-Charts, gegründet 1894): Album Reviews, Jazz-Fusion: „Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Jack DeJohnette“ (Recommended)
- April 1985 DownBeat (US-Jazzzeitschrift, gegründet 1934): „European ECM“: Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette (ganzseitige Vorstellung, Heft April 1985, Vol. 52, Nr. 4)
- 15 August 2001 Falter (Seite 49, Kultur): „Leben nach dem Tod“ (Werner Pirchner, 1940 bis 2001)
- 7 December 2005 Salzburger Nachrichten (Seite 14, Kultur): „Gestorben: Harry Pepl“ (Rubrik „Gestorben“)
- 13 March 2007 Deutschlandfunk, Nachtradio (Playlist): „Milestones - Harry Pepl“ (Klassiker der Jazzgeschichte)
- 20 December 2011 ECM Reviews (Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond): „Pirchner/Pepl/DeJohnette: s/t (ECM 1237)“
- 13 November 2012 ECM Reviews (Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond): „A second look: Pirchner/Pepl/DeJohnette (ECM 1237)“
- 27 October 2025 APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur, APA0208): „US-Jazz-Legende Jack DeJohnette 83-jährig gestorben“
- 28 October 2025 Salzburger Nachrichten (Seite 9, Kultur): „Er gab im Jazz die Richtung vor: Jack DeJohnette ist tot“
