The flugelhorn is a cousin of the trumpet and cornet, but with the widest conical bore. Its sound is warmer, softer, “nocturnal” — this is why jazz musicians choose the flugelhorn for ballads and meditative pieces.
Trumpeter Chet Baker played the flugelhorn through most of the 1960s (e.g. on Baby Breeze, recorded 1964). Miles Davis played brilliant flugelhorn solos on the album Sketches of Spain. In classical music the flugelhorn is rare but occasionally appears in modern scores — for example, in Mahler's Third Symphony. In Ukraine the flugelhorn has been actively used by contemporary jazz performers on the Kyiv and Lviv scenes.
