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Pepl / Labarrière / Jackson / Mitterer

One of the last concert series, 1994

International line-up with which Harry Pepl played one of his last concert series in 1994: Hélène Labarrière (double bass), Gene Jackson (drums) and Wolfgang Mitterer (synthesizer), joined in Graz by Wolfgang Puschnig.

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At a glance

Line-up
Harry Pepl (guitar), Hélène Labarrière (double bass), Gene Jackson (drums), Wolfgang Mitterer (synthesizer); in Graz also Wolfgang Puschnig (saxophone), in Kyiv Paul Zauner (trombone)
Year
1994
Concerts
Porgy & Bess Vienna (three-day solo series), Kyiv (Ukraine), probably Slovakia, Graz (Graz Meeting, Orpheum, 20 April 1994)
Recordings
none in the family archive; Graz, 20 April 1994, recording and Ö1 broadcast at the Österreichische Mediathek (on site only)

In 1994 Harry Pepl played one of his last concert series with an international line-up: the French double bassist Hélène Labarrière, the New York drummer Gene Jackson and Wolfgang Mitterer on synthesizer. Among other places, the group performed in Kyiv (Ukraine), probably in Slovakia, in Graz, there with Wolfgang Puschnig on saxophone, and at Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) in Vienna. No recording has survived in the family archive. Of the Graz concert at the Graz Meeting “Strings” on Wednesday, 20 April 1994, at the Orpheum, a concert venue in Graz, however, the Österreichische Mediathek (Austrian Mediathek), Austria’s archive of sound and video recordings at the Technisches Museum Wien, holds an unreleased recording and the broadcast “Aus dem Konzertsaal: Graz Meeting 1994” by Ö1, ORF’s cultural radio station, featuring the Harry Pepl Quartet, both on cassette and available only on site; the catalogue does not name the other musicians that evening.1 After that there were no more concerts of his own; in December 1997 Pepl joined in once more at the INNtöne festival weekend (today a jazz festival in Diersbach, Upper Austria) at Zell an der Pram Castle, in changing line-ups, mainly on piano and drums.2

In 1994 Porgy & Bess, which had opened in 1993, gave Pepl a three-day solo series; on one of the evenings he played with Mitterer.3 Mitterer's own chronology also names Gene Jackson for Porgy & Bess and the trombonist Paul Zauner for Kyiv.4 As early as July 1994 the Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s largest-circulation daily, had listed a quartet with Puschnig, Labarrière and Jackson among Pepl's projects.5

Notes and sources (5)
  1. Österreichische Mediathek, catalogue: “Harry Pepl Quartet 20.04.1994 (1)”, recorded at the Orpheum, Graz, shelf mark 6-69528 (online), and “Aus dem Konzertsaal: Graz Meeting 1994 (2)”, ORF Radio Österreich 1, presented by Jörg-Martin Willnauer, shelf mark 6-69955 (online), accessed 19 October 2026; APA-Basisdienst, 16 February 1994 (quartet with Wolfgang Puschnig). ↩
  2. Statement by Daniel Pepl, 20 October 2026 (no more planned concerts of his own after 1994); on the festival Kohler 2006, pp. 108, 112 (there “festival in Raab”); OÖ Volksblatt, 10 December 1997, p. 28; OÖ Nachrichten, 9 December 1997. ↩
  3. Porgy & Bess, announcement “Tribute to Harry Pepl” for 6 December 2006 (signed “CH”, December 2005). ↩
  4. Wolfgang Mitterer, chronology on wolfgangmitterer.com, section “1996 and before” (undated). ↩
  5. Kronen Zeitung (Styria edition), 28 July 1994, p. 22. ↩

In the chronology

In the press

All 3 press items on Pepl / Labarrière / Jackson / Mitterer