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Black-and-white group picture: four musicians lean side by side against a white wall; to their left stands Harry Pepl as a pale, composited figure (according to the cover of the double CD). From left: Harry Pepl (superimposed), Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger.
The quartet with Harry Pepl as a superimposed figure, 2015Photo: Manulli by Ania Radziszewska

Live from the estate · 2015 to 2016

Harry Pepl & Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger

Double CD 2015 with Salesny, Bayer, Frosch, Heginger

On the tenth anniversary of his death in 2015, Daniel Pepl brought his father's home-studio recordings back into the studio: Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger played along to Harry Pepl's tracks. The double CD was presented on 5 December 2015 at Porgy & Bess; in 2018 the live formation Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band emerged from this project.

Harry Pepl Original tracks (tape)

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At a glance

Line-up
Harry Pepl (original tracks), Clemens Salesny (saxophone, bass clarinet), Martin Bayer (guitar), Peter Primus Frosch (drums), Agnes Heginger (vocals)
Guests on the CD
Alex Meissl, Clemens Wenger, Herbert Joos, Mario Rom
Album
Double CD, Fullmax Recordings 2015, digital 2020
Production
Daniel Pepl
Concerts
Porgy & Bess Vienna (5 December 2015, with guests Dominik Fuss and Raphael Preuschl; programme), INNtöne Jazzfestival Diersbach (14 May 2016)

How the project came about

Daniel Pepl had become aware of the duo of Clemens Salesny and Martin Bayer through a live recording from Porgy & Bess; he knew Salesny from the Salzburger Jazzherbst 2004. Salesny invited Agnes Heginger, whom Harry Pepl had met in the early 1990s at jazz seminars in Zeillern, and the drummer Peter Primus Frosch.1 The double CD was made in eight studio days, mixed and mastered by Daniel Pepl.2

The double CD

The first CD contains recordings of the Lonely Single Swinger Band, the second older compositions from the time of Air Mail and Jazzzwio, with the guests Alex Meissl, Clemens Wenger, Herbert Joos and Mario Rom.3 Newly recorded were, for example, “125/250”, Pepl's “Ballentine for Valentine”.4 The album was released digitally on 18 May 2020 by Fullmax Recordings.

Concerts

The double CD was presented on 5 December 2015 at Porgy & Bess in Vienna, for the tenth anniversary of his death, in the year of his 70th birthday. On 14 May 2016 the quartet played at the INNtöne Jazzfestival in Diersbach.5 In September 2015 Daniel Pepl, Agnes Heginger and Clemens Salesny were guests on the Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) Jazznacht “Erinnerungen an Harry Pepl”.

Notes and sources (5)
  1. Heckel 2024, pp. 163, 259, 269. ↩
  2. Heckel 2024, p. 238. ↩
  3. Heckel 2024, pp. 156, 259 to 263. ↩
  4. Heckel 2024, p. 101. ↩
  5. Porgy & Bess, programme, 5 December 2015; INNtöne Jazzfestival, archive 2016; Heckel 2024, p. 168. ↩

Voices

Some pieces and arrangements offer such great freedom that they sound different every time live, and Harry, too, keeps on surprising.

Clemens Salesny Ljubiša Tošić, “Inntöne-Festival: Session mit der Historie”, Der Standard online, 12 May 2016, quoted in Heckel 2024, p. 168

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Questions and answers

What is the double CD from 2015?

A production for the tenth anniversary of his death: Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger play along to Harry Pepl's original tracks. CD 1 contains recordings of the Lonely Single Swinger Band, CD 2 older compositions.

Where was it presented?

On 5 December 2015 at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) in Vienna.

How is the project connected to the live project?

In 2018 it gave rise to the formation Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band, with Salesny and Bayer, joined by Andi Schreiber and Valentin Duit.

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In the press

All 13 press items on Harry Pepl & Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger