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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

alto saxophone, flute, bansuri

Wolfgang Puschnig

Member of Air Mail, duo partner on “Pieces of the Dream” (1988) and, live on saxophone, at the Schönberg-Improvations in 1990.

Played with him

Cover of Jazzlive no. 20 (Austrian jazz magazine), April 1985, with a portrait of the band: Harry Pepl (left), Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger. Reisinger, “der Reisl”, often came to make music with Pepl in Hernstein, Lower Austria.
Air Mail on the cover of Jazzlive, April 1985Photo: Rainer A. Rygalyk

Saxophonist and flautist. He said of Pepl that he had simply learnt his musical language.

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Voices

I simply learned his musical language.

Wolfgang Puschnig, Jazzzeitung 2006

As a guitarist he was outside every norm. That opened up a new, more flexible approach to phrasing for me.

Wolfgang Puschnig, Die Presse 2016

phrasing across the bar line

The saxophonist on what he learned from Pepl during their years together in the quartet Air Mail, along with a different feel for pulse and metre

Wolfgang Puschnig Heckel 2024, p. 219 (interview with Wolfgang Puschnig, 4 March 2015); translated from the German

Harry Pepl, definitely, with whom I played in the Airmail band for seven years.

Wolfgang Puschnig, Kleine Zeitung 2016

Recordings together

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AirMail - Live At Amiens Jazz Festival 1986

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YouTube: Fullmax Recordings, 26 May 2015

Wolfgang Puschnig & Harry Pepl Duo - Die alte Mär und das Mann

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YouTube: Fullmax Recordings, 2 January 2019

Die alte Mär und das Mann · Harry Pepl

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YouTube: Concert + Schrammeln, 2 April 2024

Airmail: Die alte Mär und das Mann (Jazzspelunke Wien, 30.03.1985) (Live at Jazzspelunke Wien, 1985)

1985 · Fullmax Recordings, 1985

“Die alte Mär und das Mann” (Harry Pepl), 11:01, live recording of Airmail at the Jazzspelunke in Vienna on 30 March 1985: Harry Pepl (guitar), Wolfgang Puschnig (alto saxophone, flute), Mike Richmond (bass), Wolfgang Reisinger (drums). Fullmax Recordings, 2020 (ISRC ATPK12000131). According to Daniel Pepl it shows the band’s uncanny interplay; prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme.

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In the chronology

In the press

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