CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Offbeat, Nabokovian and West Coast Hip

Franz Koglmann The Austrian jazz musician and composer Franz Koglmann likes to swim among his favorite artists, touching them and then cruising by. On his new album, “Lo-lee-ta” (Col Legno), he’s thinking about Vladimir Nabokov. How do you evoke Nabokov with music? It’s a matter of indirect inspiration: “detachment and coolness,” as Mr. Koglmann explained in the liner notes, has something to do with it. (A lot of his music sounds detached and cool, whatever i...

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