soprano saxophone
Dave Liebman
Soprano saxophone on “Schönberg Improvations” (1990) and in Michel Portal's group (“Men's Land”, 1987).
American saxophonist, born 1946.
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Voices
Harry Pepl was a great musician whose musicianship was beyond the norm.
a groundbreaking guitarist that I had the pleasure to have recorded with several times … He had a Busendorfer piano playing music programmed from his computer-the keys were moving, the sound was a piano but it had come from the guitar. This was in the 80’s-far ahead!!
The American saxophonist Dave Liebman in December 2005, a few weeks after Pepl’s death, in the obituary section of “Intervals”, the newsletter on his website. He recalls recording “Schönberg Improvations” in 1989 with Wolfgang Reisinger: Pepl played a Bösendorfer computer grand piano (Bösendorfer is the Viennese piano maker) from his MIDI guitar, its keys moving by themselves (Liebman spells it “Busendorfer”)
If you're a great instrumentalist, you want to be able to express anything of the instrument, even beyond the instrument. It's not an instrument any more but an expression.
quiet as he was, there was no question that Harry possessed a very powerful personality.
In an email to Stefan Heckel in 2021, on Harry Pepl as a musician and as a person
Recordings together
Listen and watch
Harry Pepl: Eastern Island Ears (Schönberg Improvations, 1990)
“Eastern Island Ears” (Harry Pepl), 3:47, from the album “Schönberg Improvations” (Amadeo, 1990; MIDI guitar and Atari computer with Bösendorfer 290SE grand piano, Dave Liebman, Wolfgang Reisinger). Prepared in 2020 as a suggested listening tip for the Ö1 radio programme.
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Harry Pepl: Herbstzeitlose Arbeitslose (Schönberg Improvations, 1990)
“Herbstzeitlose Arbeitslose” (Harry Pepl), 2:47, from the album “Schönberg Improvations” (Amadeo, 1990), with Johannes Enders (tenor saxophone). Prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme.
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In the chronology
In the press
- 30 May 1987 Radio France, „Le temps du jazz“ (Mitschnitt im INA-Katalog): „Concert du Michel Portal Unit 87“
- 16 June 1987 APA-Basisdienst (Austria Presse Agentur), Rubrik APA JAZZ NEWS: „Erfolg für Harry Pepl in Frankreich“
- 1 November 1987 France Musique, „Jazz vivant“ (Sendung im INA-Katalog): „Festival Le Temps du Jazz : extraits du concert du multi-instrumentiste Michel Portal“
- 17 August 1988 Le Monde: „Michel Portal: « Men's land »“
- 1990 Amadeo (CD-Booklet): Liner Notes und Credits zu „Schönberg Improvations“
- February 1990 Tschin Bumm (Musikmagazin, Rubrik Technik, S. 52): „Harry Pepl im Studio: Das Bösendorfer-Projekt“
- 26 July 1994 Kronen Zeitung (Seite 18): „Musikalischer Grenzgänger lehrt an ‚NÖ Jazzakademie‘“
- 24 July 2002 Falter (Seite 55, Kultur): „Leiwand oder ned leiwand“ (Doppelporträt Muthspiel & Muthspiel und Jazzzwio)
- December 2005 Intervals, Newsletter von David Liebman (Website): „Passings: Harry Pepl“, Intervals Volume 14, Nr. 1
- 7 December 2005 Salzburger Nachrichten (Seite 14, Kultur): „Gestorben: Harry Pepl“ (Rubrik „Gestorben“)
- 12 December 2005 NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (Seite 38, Triestingtal): „Tiefe Trauer um Harry“
- 14 January 2019 France Musique (Radio France), „Les Grands entretiens“: „Michel Portal (1/5): Je me cachais la nuit pour écouter de la musique“