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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

leader

Richard Österreicher

1932 – † 2023

Conductor of the ORF Big Band on “Leave Me” (1976), on which Pepl is named as soloist.

Played with him

Printed page from the 1970s with a band photo at a wall and a line-up: trumpets Robert Demmer, Robert Politzer, Art Farmer, Ernst Lamprecht; saxophones Hans Salomon, Hans Löw, Karl Drewo, Peter Klinger, Felix Hanusik; trombones Garney Hicks, Charles Baker, Willi Meerwald, Roy Deuvall; rhythm Fritz Pauer (piano), Harry Pepl (guitar), Wayne Darling (bass), Erich Bachträgl (drums). The text names October 1971 as the founding date and Erich Kleinschuster, the Austrian jazz trombonist, as founder.
ORF Big Band under Richard Österreicher: band photo and line-upDruckseite, Herkunft nicht bestimmt

Conductor of the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria's public broadcaster), also listed as Richard K. Oesterreicher in the sources.

Voices

that guy goes to bed with his guitar, and all the musicians in the big band are amazed at how great he plays.

The then leader of the ORF Big Band, the big band of Austria’s public broadcaster, in the 1970s on his new guitarist Harry Pepl, as recounted by his son Richard Österreicher Jr.

Richard Österreicher Heckel 2024, p. 244 (interview with Richard Österreicher Jr., 14 December 2020)

Recordings together

Listen and watch

ORF Big Band & Harry Pepl (1976): LEAVE ME - Song Title: For My People

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Watch on YouTube

YouTube: Fullmax Recordings, 31 December 2012

ORF Big Band: Salt and Pepl (Leave Me, 1976)

1976 · ORF / Wiener Musikproduktion, 1976

“Salt and Pepl” by Harry Pepl, 1:48, ORF Big Band conducted by Richard Österreicher with Harry Pepl as soloist (album “Leave Me”, ORF and Wiener Musikproduktion, 1976). One of the recordings Daniel Pepl prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme on Harry Pepl’s 75th birthday.

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