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Song For Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler
by Ian Patterson
Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Brian Shaw and Nick Smart 509 Pages ISBN: # ISBN-13-978-178179 Equinox Publishing 2025 If only for his trumpet and flugelhorn playing Kenny Wheeler stands as one of the modern greats, marrying linear lyricism and free-jazz expression like no-one else. But as a composer, Wheeler was just as innovative, developing harmonic and melodic language in new ways, and bringing together musicians from very different ...
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by Jack Kenny
Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Brian Shaw and Nick Smart (Foreword by Dave Holland ) 509 Pages ISBN: # ISBN-13- 978-178179 Equinox Publishing Prising apart the complex nature of Kenny Wheeler is a worthwhile task. Wheeler lacked swagger, a swashbuckling attitude and arrogance. He said, “I don't say much and when I do, I don't say much." He was a quiet man but when he played, and composed, his reticence ...
Continue ReadingKenny Wheeler Legacy, Gautier Garrigue, Elise Vassallucci, Erik Jekabson & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Here is a playlist mostly devoted to releases that explicitly or implicitly remind of us of the importance of Kenny Wheeler for today's jazz.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Erik Jekabson “Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Part 1/Part 2)" Breakthrough (Wide Hive) 0:16 Host talks 9:16 Kenny Wheeler Legacy “Some Doors Are Better Open" Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf) 11:40 Jason Keiser “Hotel Le ...
Continue ReadingKenny Wheeler: Smatter
by Scott Lichtman
The song “Smatter," from trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, offers the chance to hear several grandmasters of jazz concoct high-energy music together. For Wheeler's debut on ECM Records, Gnu High (ECM, 1976), he gathered the creative forces of Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland on the album's three tracks. Gnu High would quickly be deemed a classic. Wheeler displays a tone that is equal parts warm and penetrating. His solos are uber-musical, transcending lyrical lines to create pure ambience. ...
Continue ReadingSteve Arguelles: Here
by Vincenzo Roggero
In che modo ci si approccia ad una registrazione di solo batteria, se sei un batterista che non crede negli assoli di batteria? Su questa domanda le note di copertina argomentano in modo brillante, lucido, esaustivo. Il musicista in questione è Steve Arguelles veterano della più vivace scena britannica, membro fondatore dei fondamentali Loose Tubes e Human Chain, collaboratore di musicisti come Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Hugh Masekela, Chris McGregor. La registrazione avviene nella chiesa luterana di ...
Continue ReadingThe Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 1996-1998
by Robert Middleton
The albums featured in the fourth installment of 72 Jazz Thrillers are from some of the most famous and accomplished bandleaders in all of jazz. The artists featured here, some with careers of as long as 60 years and half of whom are still living and recording, made albums that prove the timelessness of jazz. From an album of modern pop standards and one of the most revered ECM albums to a gem of Americana, all of these albums have ...
Continue ReadingBill Bruford: The Winterfold Collection 1978-1986
by John Kelman
It's often easy to judge artists based on where they are now, but when you have a recorded legacy as rich as that of Bill Bruford, it's far better to view the body of work as a whole. As divergent as the intrepid percussionist/composer/bandleader's career has been, there are common threads running through all his work, making the earlier, electrified and amplified material on this Winterfold Collection fit contextually as a logical antecedent to his more recent unplugged and improvisation-centric ...
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