Kenny Wheeler
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[The tracks] come from a unique, some say golden, period of British jazz where artists reframed their music according to their own musical vision, creating original and distinctive music that... —
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Jazzwise, Recommended Reissue/Archive, August 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021, Reissues/Archive
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, July 2021
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Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler)
London Vocal Project, Dave Holland (double bass), Norma Winstone (leadvocalist), Mark Lockheart (saxophone), Nikki Iles (piano)
The maestro himself is absent, of course, but what a delight it is to step back into the entrancing sound-world… the long circuitous melodies, the breath-taking harmonic shifts, the fascinating... —
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Indo Jazz Suite
The Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Quintet, Diwan Motihar (sitar), Joe Harriott (alto saxophone), John Mayer (harpsichord), Keshav Sathe (tabla), Coleridge Goode (bass), Pat Smythe (piano), Alan Ganley (drums), Chandrahas Paigankar (tanbur), Chris Taylor (flute), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), John Mayer...
Hailed by Melody Maker upon release as “highly provocative” it was conceived by Calcutta-born Mayer who based the pieces on the ascending and descending order of ragas with Harriott’s quintet... —
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Gnu High
Kenny Wheeler (flugelhorn), Keith Jarrett (piano), Dave Holland (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums)
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Next 100 (Pre-1980)
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
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Divine Love
RecommendedWadada Leo Smith (trumpet/flugelhorn/steel-o-phone/gongs/percussion)
Dwight Andrews (alto flute/bass clarinet/tenor saxophone/triangles/mbira)
Bobby Naughton (vibraharp/marimba/bells), Charlie Haden (double bass)
Lester Bowie (trumpet), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet)
A key entry in the Smith discography, cut in the preWadada days, Divine Love is an album that wears its title very well. It is one of the trumpeter’s most heartfelt and engrossing expressions... —
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Angel Song
Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, flugelhorn), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Bill Frisell (guitar), Dave Holland (double bass)
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Post-1980)
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Music for Large & Small Ensembles
RecommendedKenny Wheeler (flugelhorn/trumpet), John Abercrombie (guitar), John Taylor (piano), Dave Holland (bass), Peter Erskine (drums), Norma Winstone (vocal), Derek Watkins (trumpet), Henry Lowther (trumpet), Alan Downey (trumpet), Ian Hamer (trumpet), Dave Horler (trombone), Chris Pyne (trombone), Paul...
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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Windmill Tilter: The Story of Don Quixote
RecommendedKen Wheeler, The John Dankworth Orchestra, Dick Hart (tuba), Alf Reece (tuba), Henry Shaw (trumpet), Derek Watkins (trumpet), Michael Gibbs (trombone), Henry Lowther (trumpet), Chris Pyne (trombone), John Dankworth (saxophone), Tony Coe (saxophone), Tony Roberts (saxophone), Ray Swinfield (saxophone),...
Windmill Tilter still sounds like the arrival of the contemporary-jazz gamechanger it was, and this Dankworth band was a world-class outfit. —
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Jazzwise, Recommended Reissue/Archive, September 2021
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