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 | Kenny Wheeler & John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (CD: BGO)
Finally, Wheeler's 'lost' first album makes it to CD. An essential purchase for those with an interest in British jazz.
Price: £12.99
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Kenny Wheeler & The John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (Vinyl LP: Decca)
Kenny Wheeler was born Canada in 1930 and, with encouragement from his father - himself a trombone player - began playing trumpet at age 12. After studying at Toronto's Royal Conservatory, he arrived in London in 1952, his playing enveloped in the sounds of Miles Davis, Booker Little, and Fats Navarro. In 1959, Wheeler joined the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra and stayed there until 1963, although he returned frequently for shows and other projects in the years that followed. He quickly become a distinguished soloist in the Orchestra and appeared on Dankworth's key sixties albums. Wheeler met and played with the rising artists of London's free jazz scene. Players such as Trevor Watts, Derek Bailey, and Evan Parker, musicians who would challenge the conventions of the day, eschewing formal composition and structure to embark on group improvisation. For a musician thoroughly schooled in all the conventions of charts and dance bands as Wheeler was, this was a radical departure. Wheeler's contributions proved his ample flexibility and showed he was capable of inhabiting both the free environment and the more formal and controlled settings of a big band and orchestra. This was shown most clearly on his debut album, Windmill Tilter, recorded for Fontana with the John Dankworth Orchestra. The album features a young John McLaughlin on guitar along with bassist Dave Holland and a roster of talented and well respected musicians playing on one of the greatest modern jazz big band and orchestral albums. Vinyl audio remastered & cut from the original master tapes by Gearbox Records. Limited Edition 180grm pressing. Includes audio download voucher. (Universal Music)
Price: £45.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler: Song For Someone (CD: Psi)
Between the legendary ‘Windmill Tilter’ and ‘Music for Large Ensemble’ came ‘Song for Someone’ from 1973, the first music Kenny Wheeler recorded for a large group of his choosing. Now on CD for the first time. (Emanem)
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Kenny Wheeler: Gnu High (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Gnu High was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler’s first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett’s last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler’s writing is captivating.This album is part of the ECM TOUCHSTONES series: Great music and full-dimensional sound at download price, in cardboard covers with original artwork. (ECM Records)
Price: £11.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler: Gnu High (Vinyl LP: ECM)
A vinyl reissue, in ECM's new audiophile Luminessence series, for Kenny Wheeler’s sensational ECM leader debut. Recorded in New York in 1975, and produced by Manfred Eicher, Gnu High brought Canadian trumpeter Wheeler to a new level of international acclaim, for both his impassioned playing and his profoundly lyrical writing. (ECM Records)
Price: £36.99
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Kenny Wheeler: Deer Wan (CD: ECM)
Price: £14.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler: Deer Wan (Vinyl LP: ECM)
'Deer Wan' was recorded in July 1977 in Oslo and produced by Manfred Eicher. It's now reissued on 180g vinyl with a free download code included.
Price: £28.99
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Kenny Wheeler: Double, Double You (CD: ECM Touchstones)
Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was both a major jazz composer and a soloist given to free flights, thriving on the creative tension between lyricism and fiery interplay. Musicians loved the challenges implied in his writing, as is apparent in every minute of this 1983 session. Wheeler and Michael Brecker make a very fine, mutually-inspiring frontline, and Double, Double You also draws upon several long-established creative relationships. Wheeler and Holland had been close musical associates since the 1960s. Holland and DeJohnette established themselves as one of the great rhythm sections in Miles Davis’s band and on many ECM discs (including Kenny’s Gnu High and Deer Wan). And Wheeler and Taylor were forever in each other’s groups, at the time of this recording also playing in the trio Azimuth. (ECM Records)
Price: £11.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler: Around 6 (Vinyl LP: ECM)
Rare & long out of print. Last copy.
Price: £39.99
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Kenny Wheeler: Music For Large & Small Ensembles (CD: ECM, 2 CDs)
Price: £24.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (CD: Cam Jazz, 5 CDs)
A welcome return to the catalogue of some long unavailable Kenny Wheeler recordings. Includes Flutter by, Butterfly, Welcome, All the More, Tales & Guest.
Price: £29.99
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Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song (CD: ECM)
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 | Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor: On The Way To Two (CD: Cam Jazz)
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Kenny Wheeler: Dream Sequence (CD: Psi)
Price: £13.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor: Where Do We Go From Here? (CD: Cam Jazz)
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Kenny Wheeler: What Now? (CD: Cam Jazz)
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 | Kenny Wheeler: It Takes Two! (CD: Cam Jazz)
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Kenny Wheeler: Other People (CD: Cam Jazz)
This album marks the veteran musicians' first venture into recording with a string ensemble, in this instance the phenomenal Hugo Wolf String Quartet. Also features John Taylor.
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 | Kenny Wheeler: One Of Many (CD: Cam Jazz)
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Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting (CD: Cam Jazz)
A new big band album of eight Wheeler compositions, to coincide with the trumpeter’s 82nd birthday. Featuring an array of the UK’s finest players, many of whom have long connections with the band leader (and several of whom played on a career highlight, the 1990 ECM album Music for Large and Small Ensembles), The Long Waiting proves well worth the wait. (Harmonia Mundi)
Price: £13.99
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 | Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone & London Vocal Project: Mirrors (CD: Edition)
Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone have been at the forefront of European Jazz scene collectively for the last 5 decades gaining the admiration and reverence from all generations of musicians and fans. With the release of ‘Mirrors’, a suite of music composed by Kenny Wheeler set to poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and W.B. Yeats, they are joined by the London Vocal Project, a 24 piece choir directed by the inimitable Pete Churchill. Featuring some of the renowned and celebrated musicians in British Jazz including pianist Nikki Iles, saxophonist Mark Lockheart, bassist Steve Watts and drummer James Maddren, Mirrors is vast in conception and world class in its execution. (Edition Records)
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Kenny Wheeler: Songs For Quintet (CD: ECM)
Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was an unassuming giant of modern jazz, a daring improviser, and a writer of many beautiful and slyly unorthodox tunes. 'Songs for Quintet', his final recording, features compositions of relatively recent vintage.The album was recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios in December 2013 with four of Kenny's favourite players. Saxophonist Stan Sulzmann, guitarist John Parricelli, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer Martin France work together marvellously as an interactive unit, solo persuasively, and provide support for the tender and lyrical flugelhorn of the bandleader. The CD, which also includes a fresh approach to "Old Time" (which the Azimuth trio used to play) and "Nonetheless", a piece introduced on 'Angel Song' (5330982), is issued to mark what would have been Kenny Wheeler's 85th birthday (14 January 2015). The session turned out to be the last occasion on which Kenny played with other musicians. The melodic imagination and the improvisational courage remain; the flugelhorn soloist could not be anybody but Kenny Wheeler. His exchanges with Stan Sulzmann throughout the album are full of charm, and indicative of the sense of friendship and mutual respect that characterises the whole band. (Proper Note)
Price: £14.99
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