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Kenny Wheeler & John Taylor: Where Do We Go From Here?
by John Kelman
Over the past thirty years, pianist John Taylor has clearly been trumpeter Kenny Wheeler's accompanist of choice. Cerebral yet quietly passionate, intuitive and supportive, with a musical personality rooted in Bill Evans that has, nevertheless, long since evolved beyond comparative considerations, Taylor's ability to get inside Wheeler's often melancholic compositions is without equal. From big band ...
Dream Sequence
Label: Psi
Released: 2003
Track listing: Unti, Drum Sequence, Dream Sequence, Cousin Marie, Nonetheless, A Flower is a
Lovesome
thing, Hearken, Kind Folks
Summerflood
Label: CTI Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Inner Garden; Summerflood; Light In Green; Opal; Baghira; The Right Mistake; My Shy I.
Kenny Wheeler: Dream Sequence
by Glenn Astarita
The latest edition to trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's discography commences with variable pulses and emphatic horn charts on “Unti." But while this production launches with an up-tempo groove, the majority of this set simply corresponds to the wistful implications set forth by the album title. Recorded during several visits to London's Gateway Studio spanning 1995 ...
Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor: Moon
by Enzo Vizzone
Wheeler and Taylor have produced some great music together in the past, but seldom as irresistibly gorgeous as this. Confining himself to flugelhorn, Wheeler is lyric beauty personified, his mellifluously songlike improvisations burnished by a richly expressive tone; Taylor is the perfect partner, his piano matching and echoing Wheeler's explorations at every turn. It says much ...
Dave Holland: A Weekend of Bass
by Dave Roberts
There may be no instrument that is more vital yet less heralded in a jazz group than the bass. The bass provides much of the rhythmic and harmonic foundation as well as outlining the form. If the bassist is solid, locking in with the drums and piano, everyone else in the group can relax. And often, ...
