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Harry Pepl
12+ albums
austrianjazzinstrumentalexperimentalcomposer
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Harry Pepl (10 September 1945 – 5 December 2005) was an Austrian jazz guitarist and composer born in Wien. Biography: Pepl studied classical guitar at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. He oriented his musical preference to Jazz and together with Werner Pirchner first appeared as Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio, which was partially expanded with Adelhard Roidinger as bassist for Trio. He also played with a series of famous jazz musicians, like Benny Goodman, Dave Holland, Enrico Rava, Wolfgang Puschnig, Steve Swallow, Jack DeJohnette, and Michel Portal, as well as the Vienna Art Orchestra. With Mike Richmond he played between 1984 and 1986 at numerous festivals. Between 1977 and 1995 he taught guitar at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, from 1984 as professor. Pepl died on 5 December 2005 in a hospital in Wiener Neustadt, Niederösterreich. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
albums
Cracked Mirrors
Leave Me
Airmail - Lightblues
Live At Miles Smiles
Schoenberg Improvisations
N.Y.C. Impressure
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The String Summit - One World in Eight
Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band (Volume One)
Consequence
Harry Pepl / Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger
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Coffeehouse Jazz
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Airmail - Light Blues