Franz Koglmann
Franz Koglmann is an Austrian trumpeter, flugelhorn player and composer, born near Vienna in 1947. He works between avant-garde jazz and composed chamber music, writing for small ensembles that mix improvisation with ideas from twentieth-century concert music. He is known for his Pipetet and for a long series of albums on the hat ART label. Koglmann founded the label Pipe Records in 1973, issuing records by Steve Lacy and Bill Dixon as well as his own Opium for Franz. He later formed the Pipetet, which debuted with Schlaf Schlemmer, Schlaf Magritte (hat ART, 1984).
Itinerary
1991 release ** "Recorded at the Listen to Lacy festival in Vienna, 1990, this large ensemble recording is really the Steve Lacy Sextet plus ten. One of the dectet members is Franz Koglmann. Although some of Lacy's other large group experiments met w…
A White Line
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** "A White Line is, in many ways, Austrian composer, arranger, flugelhorn player, and bandleader Franz Koglmann's most controversial work because in it, he dares to use race as a compositional …
Cantos I-IV
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** "Webster's defines the word canto as "one of the major divisions in a long poem." These four cantos of the Austrian composer and flügelhorn maestro Franz Koglmann are indeed major divisions i…
Near Blue-A Taste of Melancholy
"Near Blue – A Taste of Melancholy is a soundtrack for being unstuck in time, if just for an hour. It is a glide through a rich past and present, with glimpses of a future worth reaching." - Bill Shoemaker
Franz Koglmann - flugelhornGert Schubert - v…
Fruits Of Solitude
With a superb septet of improvisers also versed in contemporary music, trumpeter Franz Koglmann presents sophisticated compositions that interject the concept of "solitude" in the three-part title track, alongside Koglmann compositions and Jimmy Giuf…
Flaps
**500 copies** Steve Lacy had plenty of fantastic moments on the European scene of the 70s – but this unique album may well stand as one of his best! The set's very different than any of Steve's recordings with his own group – partly because the core…
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Opium For Franz
**500 copies** "This gem of a recording has been a collector's dream prize for decades. Recorded and released in the mid-1970s on flugelhorn / trumpeter Franz Koglmann's Pipe Recordings, each copy of Opium For Franz was issued with an original hand p…
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Nocturnal Walks
The truth is out: Haydn was a jazz composer! Franz Koglmann took the diligent classic's 27th symphony with him on his Nocturnal Walks.
Lo-lee-ta
Vladimir Nabokov: the master of "chamber music in prose" (literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki) and composer of crackling word sonatas. Franz Koglmann: a commuter between jazz/avant-garde and literature, and writer of intimate sound novellas. It was …