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Kenny Wheeler

January 2022

  • bassist Chris Laurence.

    Chris Laurence: Ken Wheeler – Some Gnu Ones review – magical and possibly unique

    Laurence’s double bass is the unusual star of three works written with it in mind by his longtime collaborator, the late Ken Wheeler

November 2015

  • Maria Schneider with her Orchestra Cadogan Hall, London 17 November 2015 London Jazz Festival Photograph © by Allan Titmuss titmuss@allantitmuss.com +44 (0) 7860 227875 +44 (0) 20 8963 1121 The photographer hereby asserts his right under the 1988 International Copyright, Designs and Patents Act to be identified as the author of this work

    The playlist
    The playlist: jazz – London jazz festival, Kamasi Washington, Maria Schneider, Sheila Jordan and more

    The London jazz festival- which ended on Sunday - presented some exciting acts, established and new: from Vula Viel to Julia Hülsmann, here is a selection of the best of them

October 2015

  • Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor

    Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor: On the Way to Two review – a joyous collaboration

    This set from two recently departed greats of European jazz is like a conversation between old friends

August 2015

  • English jazz pianist John Taylor.

    Richard Fairhurst and John Taylor: Duets review – remarkable set filled with light and space

    Pianists Richard Fairhurst and John Taylor are a perfectly balanced pairing

January 2015

  • Kenny Wheeler

    Kenny Wheeler: Songs for Quintet review – tender melancholy in last recording

  • Kenny WHEELER

    Kenny Wheeler: Songs for Quintet review – final set from jazz’s modest maestro

19 September 2014

  • Kenny Wheeler

    Kenny Wheeler obituary

    Modest jazz trumpeter revered for fearless improvisation and prolific composing
  • Kenny Wheeler at London jazz festival 2012

    Kenny Wheeler: five of the jazz composer's greatest moments

    John Fordham pays tribute to the late jazz composer by remembering some of the best works by a man who often underplayed his visionary abilities
  • kenny wheeler

    Kenny Wheeler, contemporary jazz musician, dies aged 84

    Trumpeter and composer became part of the free-improvisation movement after joining the London jazz scene

March 2013

  • Kenny Wheeler/Norma Winstone/London Vocal Project: Mirrors – review

    Kenny Wheeler puts other people's poems into musical contexts in an unusual venture that often gleams, writes John Fordham

November 2012

  • Kenny Wheeler

    Hall/Wheeler – review

    This double bill produced one of the festival's most personal sets, displaying Hall and Wheeler's mastery of the oblique, writes John Fordham

January 2012

  • Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting – review

  • Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting – review

March 2011

  • Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor/Steve Swallow: One of Many - review

    Theses 10 originals display Wheeler's familiar yet constantly retempered mix of casually-cantering swingers, camouflaged Latin dances and phlegmatic bruised ballads, writes John Fordham

October 2010

  • Kenny Wheeler

    Kenny Wheeler: quiet man on the cutting edge

    Shy and self-effacing, Kenny Wheeler is an unlikely jazz firebrand, but his career tells a very different story, finds John Fordham

January 2010

  • Kenny Wheeler 80th Birthday

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    This week's music previews

September 2009

  • Kenny Wheeler/Colours Orchestra: Nineteen Plus One

    His ­improvisations still sound like nobody else's – and his skills as a composer/­arranger seem to be blossoming afresh, says John Fordham

July 2009

  • Pick of the week: Jazz

    Central: Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth | Anna Brooks | Karen Sharp

May 2009

  • Pick of the week: Jazz

    North: Kenny Wheeler/Norma Winstone/LCM Jazz Orchestra | Fertilizer | Maceo Parker/Dennis Rollins

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