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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

double bass

Dave Holland

Played with Pepl (press text by Fullmax Recordings, 9 November 2018, and according to Daniel Pepl, 15 October 2026; also mentioned in several obituaries, on the former website, on Wikipedia, in Heckel pp. 69-70 and in the Kleine Zeitung of 10 January 1988). A documented joint concert is the evening “Daniel Humair and Friends” on Monday, 30 May 1983, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris, France, with Pepl on guitar and Holland on double bass, together with, among others, Daniel Humair, Joachim Kühn, Mike Richmond and Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist; Radio France, France's public radio broadcaster, recorded the concert. He was intended for the ECM (the renowned European jazz label) recording with Werner Pirchner and Jack DeJohnette in 1982 but, according to Pepl, dropped out due to illness; the album was made as a trio (Kohler, pp. 79, 81).

Played with him

Dave Holland on double bass with his quintet at the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay, California, USA, black-and-white photo from March 1987.
Dave Holland, 1987Photo: Brian McMillen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped