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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005
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alto saxophone

Lee Konitz

1927 – † 2020

Duo encounter around 1975/76 at a concert of the Harald Neuwirth Konsort, which Pepl described as the first impulse towards freer playing.

Played with him

Lee Konitz with alto saxophone at a concert in the Red Hall of the Teutonic Order Castle in Bad Mergentheim, Germany, 2015.
Lee Konitz, 2015Photo: Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

American saxophonist.

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Harry Pepl on Lee Konitz

He was the one who gave me that first push into it, and for me it was really the first impulse to free myself like that.

“He” is the American saxophonist Lee Konitz: on playing with him around 1975, his first push towards free improvisation

Harry Pepl On the duo with Lee Konitz around 1975; conversation with Nikolaus Kohler (Interview 1-24), quoted in Kohler 2006, p. 30

Listen and watch

Autumn Leaves, Lee Konitz and Harry Pepl

1976 · live recording, Vienna, 1976

Duo with Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), the encounter that Harry Pepl described as the first impulse towards freer playing.

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