''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 perfor ...

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 AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...

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 "Moon Dreams" is a 1942 jazz and pop song composed by Chummy MacGregor and Johnny Mercer. The song was first recorded by Martha Tilton on Capitol Records. Glenn Miller recorded the song for V-Disc release in 1944 with the Army Air Force Band. ...

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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) – 5:25 # "Baite" (

Tony Fruscella Tony Fruscella (February 4, 1927 – August 14, 1969) was an American jazz trumpeter. Biography Tony Fruscella and his sister Maria, grew up in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. He played in an United States Army, Army band early in his ...

) – 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 ''Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse'' is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill.Merriam-Webster (1995). ...

" ( Duke Ellington) – 5:12 # "Nachts" – 4:07

Personnel

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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 standard ...

, flugelhorn *

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 ...

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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 keybo ...

(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 –

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 strin ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10-12) *Klaus Koch – bass (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10-12)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heure Bleue Franz Koglmann albums 1991 albums Hathut Records albums