Harry Pepl
Harry Pepl (* 10. September 1945 in Vienna , † 5. December 2005 in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian jazz - guitarist and composer . He worked with international stars such as Benny Goodman , Dave Holland , Dino Saluzzi and Michel Portal .
Live and act
Pepl studied classical guitar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . Then he found himself learning jazz and soon belonged to the consort of Harald Neuwirth Consort and the sextet of Erich Kleinschuster Sextett as well as the ORF big band. Together with Werner Pirchner he appeared in the mid-1970s as Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio , which was partly expanded to a trio with Adelhard Roidinger as bassist. He also played with well-known jazz musicians such as Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, Enrico Rava , Wolfgang Puschnig , Steve Swallow , Jack DeJohnette and Michel Portal as well as the Vienna Art Orchestra . Between 1984 and 1986 he played with Mike Richmond at numerous festivals.
Between 1977 and 1995 he taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz , from 1984 as a full professor. In recent years he has also turned to the piano and drums and has also made a name for himself as a composer. Pepl died in a hospital in Wiener Neustadt.
Discographic notes
- Schönberg Improvations (AMADEO, 1990, solo)
- Harry Pepl Quartet NYC Impressure ( Extraplatte , 1994)
With others
- Headwind - Pirchner-Pepl-Jazzzwio ( Mood Records , 1980)
- Berlin 1980 - Benny Goodman ( TCB )
- Live, Montreux '81 - Pirchner-Pepl-Jazzzwio (Wea Music, 1981)
- Live in Concert Montreux 1981, Innsbruck 1984 - Jazzzwio (Universal Music, 2009) CD + DVD
- Downside - Adelhard Roidinger, Heinz Sauer, W. Pirchner, H. Pepl and Michael Di Pasqua, (ECM 1982)
- Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette (ECM, 1983)
- Cracked Mirrors with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen Feb (ECM, 1988)
- Beginnings - Abstract Truth (AMADEO, 1994)
- Harry Pepl / Clemens Salensy / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger (ed. 2019)
Lexigraphic entries
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
Web links
- https://www.harrypepl.com/
- Obituary (Peter Paul Skrepek)
- Entry (SRA)
- Harry Pepl at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz guitarist Harry Pepl is dead , Der Standard , December 5, 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pepl, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 2005 |
| Place of death | Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria |