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Harry Pepl and The Single Swinger Band
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 October 2026 | ||||||
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Harry Pepl (tape) & The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band (A)
Harry Pepl, the world-class Austrian composer and jazz guitarist who died in 2005, the "giant of improvisation" ("Le Monde"), returns to the stage!
The quartet interacts with Pepl by means of previously unreleased recordings from his last creative period (1996-2005), the bitterly ironic music of "Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band". For this music, Pepl played all the instruments himself (guitar, synthesizers, piano, vocals, drums) and recorded them instrument by instrument in his own recording studio in Hernstein, Lower Austria, creating spherical and very intense improvisations, like an inner dialogue.
This extensive material is used as a starting point, allowing him to interact and improvise with the legend again and again. It is as if Harry Pepl were still on stage and playing together with the live musicians...
Program and cast
Harry Pepl (tape): guitar, guitar synth, piano, keyboards, vocals, etc.
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The (Lonely) Single Swinger Band
Clemens Salesny: reeds
Martin Bayer: guitar
Andi Schreiber: violin, vocals
Valentin Duit: drums
Markus Wallner: sound
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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