''L'Heure Bleue'' is an album by trumpeter/flugelhornist
Franz Koglmann
Franz Koglmann (born 22 May 1947) is an Austrian jazz composer. He performs on both the trumpet and flugelhorn in a variety of contexts, most often within avant-garde jazz and third stream contexts. An award-winning composer, Koglmann has perf ...
which was recorded in Austria and Switzerland in 1991 and released on the Swiss
HatART label.
Discogs album entry
accessed May 29, 2017
Reception
The Allmusic
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review by Thom Jurek states: "This intimacy, this quiet brilliance and restraint that Koglmann shows here on his works -- some of which were initially written for and performed by the Pipetet -- is a statement not only of how versed the man is in the traditions of jazz and classical music but just how aware he is of his own mates' musical strengths".
Track listing
All compositions by Franz Koglmann except where noted
# "Leopard Lady" – 7:14
# " Moon Dreams" (Chummy MacGregor
John Chalmers MacGregor (March 28, 1903 – March 9, 1973), better known as Chummy MacGregor, a musician and composer, was the pianist in The Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1936 to 1942. He composed the songs " Moon Dreams", " It Must Be Jelly ('Cau ...
) – 3:22
# "My Old Flame" ( Arthur Johnston) – 3:17
# "Monoblue" – 6:33
# " Night and Day" (Cole Porter
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Born to ...
) – 5:25
# "Baite" ( Tony Fruscella) – 5:56
# "It Isn't Easy" (Ralph Richardson) – 8:10
# "L'Heure Bleue" – 7:13
# "Slow Fox" – 3:35
# "For Bix" – 6:00
# "Blue Angel" (Burkhard Stangl) – 4:28
# "Black Beauty
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" (Duke Ellington
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) – 5:12
# "Nachts" – 4:07
Personnel
*Franz Koglmann
Franz Koglmann (born 22 May 1947) is an Austrian jazz composer. He performs on both the trumpet and flugelhorn in a variety of contexts, most often within avant-garde jazz and third stream contexts. An award-winning composer, Koglmann has perf ...
– trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...
, flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
*Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 459. Oxford University Press. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz ...
– piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...
(tracks 3, 6, 9 & 13)
*Tony Coe
Anthony George Coe (born 29 November 1934) is an English jazz musician who plays clarinet, bass clarinet, flute as well as soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones.
Career
Born in Canterbury, Kent, England, Coe started out on clarinet and was self- ...
– clarinet, tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...
(tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10-12)
*Burkhard Stangl
Burkhard Stangl (born 6 November 1960 in Eggenburg, Lower Austria) is a composer and musician, currently residing in Vienna, Austria. Playing primarily guitar and electronics, he is a prolific performer in the world of electro-acoustic improvisa ...
– guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...
(tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10-12)
*Klaus Koch – bass
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(tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10-12)
References
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Franz Koglmann albums
1991 albums
Hathut Records albums