Work · 1982
Air, Love & Vitamins
Air, Love and Vitamines (AKM, ECM-Cover); Air, Love and Vitamins; Luft, Liebe und Vitamine
Pepl's best-known piece and a classic of Austrian jazz. It was first released in 1983 on ECM (the renowned European jazz label) by the trio Pirchner/Pepl/DeJohnette.
- Authors
- Harry Pepl
- Genre
- jazz composition
- Line-up
- originally guitar, vibraphone, drums (without bass)
- Publisher
- Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
- ISWC
- T0010360527
- AKM work number
- 947102
- Sheet music
- Lead sheet: Lead sheet in the estate (Dropbox /Harry Pepl/Noten/Jazz Tunes), plus a version by Wolfgang Muthspiel.
- Archive ID
- HP-W-0006
How the piece became a standard, with all recordings and videos, is told on its own page “Air, Love & Vitamins”.
The title was meant, with a pinch of self-irony, to express something fundamentally positive: air, love and something more, vitamins as well. Pepl called the piece a sweet song with a simple melody that really calls for voice or saxophone with long notes. Wolfgang Muthspiel named an album after the piece in 2004; further recordings come from, among others, Christian Muthspiel (2007) and Franck Tortiller with Misja Fitzgerald-Michel (2020). In 1994 an unreleased pop version with English lyrics was made with Agnes Heginger; the melody also underlies the song “Luft, Liebe und Vitamine”.
Listen to the recording
Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette: Air, Love And Vitamins (Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette, 1983)
“Air, Love And Vitamins” (Harry Pepl), track 2 of the ECM album by Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, Harry Pepl and Jack DeJohnette (1983, digitally remastered and reissued digitally in 2019), 7:19. The version with Jack DeJohnette, prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme.
account required For registered users (research, press, teaching): Sign in
Airmail: Air, Love And Vitamins (Light Blues (Austrian Jazzart 1), 2001)
“Air, Love And Vitamins”, track 8 of the album “Light Blues” by Airmail (EmArcy, Universal Music Austria, Austrian Jazzart series no. 1, 2001, reissue of the 1988 Amadeo edition). Daniel Pepl made the whole album available in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme on his 75th birthday.
account required For registered users (research, press, teaching): Sign in
Jazzzwio: Air, Love And Vitamins (Live In Concerts (Montreux 1981, Innsbruck 1984), 2009)
“Air, Love And Vitamins” (Harry Pepl), track 9 of the Jazzzwio album “Live In Concerts” (Universal, 2009, concert recordings from Montreux 1981 and Innsbruck 1984), Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, without Jack DeJohnette, 6:27. Alternative version, prepared in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme.
account required For registered users (research, press, teaching): Sign in
Listen and watch
Harry Pepl & Werner Pirchner · Air, Love & Vitamins (ORF Vienna 1983)
To play it, the video is loaded from YouTube. Data is transferred to YouTube (Google) in the process.
Harry Pepl & Werner Pirchner · JazzZwio interview and performance (ORF Vienna 1983)
To play it, the video is loaded from YouTube. Data is transferred to YouTube (Google) in the process.
Recordings
-
Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Jack DeJohnetteWerner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette1983 · ECM Records · „Air, Love and Vitamines“
-
Light BluesHarry Pepl, Air Mail2001 · EmArcy (Universal Music Austria), Reihe Austrian Jazzart Nr. 1 · „Air Love And Vitamines“ · 10:18
-
Live At Miles SmilesHarry Pepl / Werner Pirchner / Georg Polanski2003 · EmArcy (Universal), Reihe Austrian Jazzart Nr. 14 · „Air Love And Vitamines“
-
Air, Love & VitaminsWolfgang Muthspiel, Marc Johnson, Brian Blade2004 · Quinton
-
Against The WindChristian Muthspiel Trio2007 · EmArcy / Universal
-
Live In ConcertsPirchner / Pepl / Jazzzwio2009 · EmArcy / Universal · „Air, Love and Vitamins“
-
Les Heures PropicesFranck Tortiller, Misja Fitzgerald-Michel2020 · Label MCO · „Air, Love and Vitamins“
-
Songs From The TreehouseTim Collins & Martin Gasselsberger2025 · GLM Fine Music · „Air, Love & Vitamines“
In the press
- 1985 Sterz, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kulturpolitik (Graz), Nr. 32: „Der Riese aus dem Fuchsloch. Eine Anbiederung an Werner Pirchner, hingehudelt“
- 18 May 2004 Salzburger Nachrichten (Seite 12, Kultur): „JAZZ“ (Wolfgang Muthspiel: „Air, Love & Vitamins“)
- 28 April 2008 France Musique, „Le jazz, probablement“ (Sendung im INA-Katalog): „Concert donné le 24 août 2007 au festival de Saalfelden“
- 10 March 2009 Die Presse (Seite 27, Feuilleton): „Tränen mit John Dowland“
- 18 March 2009 Falter (Seite w27, Lexikon: Neue Platten): „Neue Platten“ (JazzZwio: „Live in Concerts“)
- 9 November 2009 NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (Seite 49, Kultur): „KRITIK ‚musik aktuell‘“
- 11 September 2014 London Jazz News: „Interview: Wolfgang Muthspiel“
- 18 June 2020 FIP (Radio France): „„Les heures propices“ et majestueuses de Franck Tortiller“
- 3 October 2021 CultureJazz: „13 arches... en jazz, ça porte bonheur ?“
- 4 October 2021 Citizen Jazz: „Les Arches en jazz, une première“
- 27 September 2025 RONDO (Online): „Songs From The Treehouse“ (Tim Collins, Martin Gasselsberger)
- 6 November 2025 Ö1, Spielräume (Sendungsseite auf orf.at): „Kammerjazzige Duoklänge“
In the chronology
- 1 April 1983 ECM album with “Air, Love & Vitamins”
- 3 June 1983 ORF “Ohne Maulkorb”
- March 1988 “Jazz und Stories” with Peter Turrini
- 11 June 2010 Robert Riegler and Primus Sitter: “Air, Love & Vitamines”
- 4 July 2014 Pepl's music at the graduation ceremony of the University of Klagenfurt
- August 2015 Christian Muthspiel remembers Pirchner and Pepl in Saalfelden
- 10 September 2020 Ö1 marks his 75th birthday
- 25 September 2021 Les Arches en Jazz: Tortiller and Fitzgerald-Michel play “Air, Love and Vitamins”
- 27 April 2025 “Air, Love & Vitamins” on the glockenspiel in St. Pölten