Projects and ensembles

The key milestones

For ten years, from 1975 to 1985, Harry Pepl played in Jazzzwio with the vibraphonist Werner Pirchner: at the Montreux Jazz Festival (renowned jazz festival in Switzerland) in 1981 and, in 1982, for ECM (the renowned European jazz label) in a trio with Jack DeJohnette. In 1980 and 1981 he played in Benny Goodman's band, among other venues at the Berlin Philharmonie. From 1983 he played in his own band Air Mail with Wolfgang Puschnig, Mike Richmond and Wolfgang Reisinger, from 1984 in France in the Michel Portal Unit, and in 1986 he toured with the quintet of Enrico Rava and Dino Saluzzi. With “Cracked Mirrors” and the “Schönberg Improvations” he made the MIDI guitar a tool of composition; from the mid-1990s he recorded all the instruments himself in his home studio as the Lonely Single Swinger Band. Since 2018 four musicians have been improvising live with these tracks: Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band.