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Franz Koglmann Septet: Fruits Of Solitude
by Mark Corroto
Franz Koglmann must be a connoisseur of vinification, i.e. winemaking, because his Fruits Of Solitude has the feel of a master vintner at work. Specifically, wine blends like Super Tuscans or Côtes du Rhônes mark his amalgam of European chamber music and American jazz. Koglmann is a true polymath in that he hears all and rejects any codifications, much like Duke Ellington did throughout his long career. As for Ellington, his classic Solitude" is the inspiration for the ...
read moreFranz Koglmann, Mario Arcari, Attila Pasztor: g(ood)luck
by Alberto Bazzurro
Torna Franz Koglmann, di cui avevamo un po' perso le tracce, e rinverdisce umori e architetture del glorioso trio KoKoKo (Koglmann Koltermann Koch), sempre col suo flicorno (più di rado la tromba) a dialogare morbidamente con un'ancia e un arco grave. Oggi le geometrie appaiono se possibile ancor più oleate, l'ancia è doppia, e il lessico calato in atmosfere più classiche (nell'accezione più larga del termine), meno incline all'azzardo, talora persino all'antigrazioso (là). Si parte con un ...
read moreFranz Koglmann: Join!
by Eyal Hareuveni
Austrian, Vienna-based composer Franz Koglmann always used music as a means to present his ideas, often provocative perspectives, on cultural phenomena at large. He alienated the American jazz community with A White Line (hatART, 1990), where he sketched an alternative history of jazz based on white innovative musicians. Later he reconstructed the compositional ideas of Johan Strauss to modern jazz vocabulary on An Affair with Strauss (Between the Lines, 2000) and upstaged the poems of T.S. Elliot on Fear Death ...
read moreFranz Koglmann: Lo-lee-ta: Music on Nabokov
by Eyal Hareuveni
Viennese composer and trumpeter Franz Koglmann is a well-known commuter between the arts and modern chamber jazz. His subtle, sophisticated compositions create a set of mirrors that reflect a distinct artistic mean: literature on Make Believe (Between the Lines, 1999), inspired by Jean Cocteau; poetry on O Moon My Pin-Up (hatOLOGY, 1997), inspired by Ezra Pound and Fear Death By Water (Between the Lines, 2003), dedicated to poetry of T.S. Elliot; cinematic images on Venus In Transit (Between the Lines, ...
read moreFranz Koglmann: Viewing Jazz through Other Arts
by Eyal Hareuveni
The music of Viennese composer/trumpeter/flugelhornist Franz Koglmann sounds like no other. He manages to marry his love for the West Coast cool jazz with elements from European modern and classic music composers, especially Franz Schubert, Alban Berg and Anton von Webern. His thematic compositions, recorded almost solely for the Swiss, Basel-based HatHut and for the German, Frankfurt-based Between the Lines labels, are complex. Quite often ironic and melancholic, always playful, detached from sentimentality but still very emotional, and usually demanding. ...
read moreBetween The Lines Turns Five, Part 2-2
by Budd Kopman
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I apologize for the delay between parts 1 and 2 of this trek through an incredibly varied body of recordings. Rather than repeat my introductory remarks (seen here ), I will summarize the basic esthetic of the record label known as Between the Lines. Franz Koglmann wants to explore the boundary edges of the compositional and the improvisational, the intersection of jazz (however you define it) with other performing arts and the juxtaposition of high" ...
read moreFranz Koglmann: Don't Play, Just Be
by Glenn Astarita
Once again, the brilliant Austrian composer/flugelhornist Franz Koglmann derives inspiration and motivation from literary and cinematic works. This extravaganza, features a full-blown chamber orchestra to augment the work of famed jazz soloists, James Emery (guitar), Tony Coe (woodwinds) and others. Here, Koglmann delves into the Third Stream with this hybrid symphonic/modern jazz/big band program.
Koglmann divides this set into two theme pieces: Don't Play, Just Be (for quartet and chamber orchestra)" and Spate Liebe (4 Songs based on ...
read moreFranz Koglmann interviewed today at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Viennese trumpeter Franz Koglmann's spent the better part of his life marrying all manner of art forms into his music, from West Coast cool to European classicism to the perhaps difficult-to-find nexus point of seemingly disparate non-musical areas including architecture, poetry, film and philosophy.
All About Jazz contributor Eyal Hareuveni spoke with Koglmannn following a performance at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival in Israel. Franz Koglmann: Viewing Jazz Through Other Arts is a fascinating look at an often overlooked artist ...
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