The Use of Memory

by Franz Koglmann

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Hat ART
  • Country: Austria
  • Length: 1:04:54
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Austrian composer and flugelhornist Franz Koglmann explores the sophisticated convergence of European art music and jazz improvisation on this Hat ART release. 'The Use of Memory' utilizes rigorous, abstract structural charts intercut with spontaneous, dissonant interplay, epitomizing the intellectual rigor of the third stream movement.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, dissonant, avant-garde, acoustic, ensemble, chamber, improvisational, melodic, sophisticated

Tracklist

  1. Chateau De Bouges (Dedicated to Alain Resnais) (9:42)
  2. For Max (Dedicated to Max Aichinger) (4:36)
  3. The Use of Memory: Bix, Miles & Chet (7:42)
  4. Das R盲tsel Eines Tages (Inspired by Giorgio De Chirico) (6:57)
  5. Der Vogel (Dedicated to Jean Cocteau) (10:15)
  6. Uccello (6:29)
  7. Monoblue (Dedicated to Yves Klein) (6:24)
  8. Die K眉hle, Der Duft, Der Glanz (Hommage 脌 Franz Schubert, Dedicated to Ingrid Karl) (6:19)
  9. Constantin's Dream (Inspired by Pierro Della Francesca) (6:29)

Credits

  • Franz Koglmann - primary artist, flugelhorn, composed by
  • Guillermo Gregorio - alto saxophone
  • Klaus Koch - bass
  • Martin Schelling - clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Tony Coe - clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • Gustav Bauer - conductor
  • Fritz Hauser - drums
  • Jean-Christophe Mastnak - french horn

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