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Infobox musical artist | name = Kenny Wheeler| image = Kenny_Wheeler.jpg| caption = Kenny Wheeler performing in 2007.| image_size =| landscape = yes| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1930|1|14|birth_place = Toronto , Canada | death_date =| origin =| instrument = Trumpet , Flugelhorn | genre = Avant-garde jazz Post bop | occupation = Composer Trumpet player| years_active =| label =| associated_acts = Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler , Order of Canada|OC (born 14 January 1930, Toronto, Canada) is a Canada|Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kenny-wheeler-p7805/biography Allmusic biography
Most of his output is rooted in jazz , but he has also been active in free improvisation and has occasionally contributed to rock music recordings. Wheeler has written over one hundred compositions and is a skilled arranger for small groups and larger ensembles.
Kenny Wheeler still lives in Britain today and is the patron of the Royal Academy Junior Jazz course.
Biography
Growing up in Toronto, Wheeler began playing cornet at age 12, and became interested in jazz in his mid-teens. Wheeler spent a year studying composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto)|Royal Conservatory in Toronto in 1950. In 1952, Wheeler moved to Britain. He found his way into the London jazz scene of the time, playing in groups led by Tommy Whittle , Tubby Hayes , and Ronnie Scott . In the late 1950s, he was a member of Buddy Featherstonhaugh 's quintet together with Bobby Wellins . Throughout the Sixties, he worked with John Dankworth , and also formed part of ( Eric Burdon and) The Animals Big Band that made its one-and-only public appearance at the National Jazz and Blues Festival|5th Annual British Jazz & Blues Festival in Richmond (1965) with tenors Stan Robinson (saxophonist)|Stan Robinson , Dick Morrissey and Al Gay , baritone sax Paul Carroll (musician)|Paul Carroll , and fellow trumpets Ian Carr and Greg Brown. In 1968, Wheeler appeared on guitarist Terry Smith (British jazz guitarist)|Terry Smith 's first solo album, Fall Out .
Kenny Wheeler has performed and recorded his own compositions with large jazz ensembles throughout his career, starting with his first album Windmill Tilter , (1969), recorded with the John Dankworth band. The Windmill Tilter LP today is a collector's item, since the original master tapes have been lost. A digitally remastered (by Andrew Thompson at Sound Performance, London) CD was released by BGO Records in September 2010. The big band album Song for Someone (1973) fused Wheeler's characteristic orchestral writing with passages of free improvisation provided by musicians such as Evan Parker and Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey , and was also named Album of the Year by Melody Maker magazine in 1975. This has subsequently been reissued on CD by Evan Parker's Psi label.
In the mid-1960s, Wheeler became a close participant in the nascent free improvisation movement in London, playing with John Stevens (drummer)|John Stevens , Evan Parker , the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and the Globe Unity Orchestra . His involvement in this genre continues to this day. Despite the above-noted accomplishments, much of Wheeler's reputation rests on his work with smaller jazz groups. Wheeler's first small group recordings to gain significant critical attention were Gnu High (1975) and Deer Wan (1977), both for the ECM label. Gnu High is one of the few albums ever to feature Keith Jarrett as a sideman since his tenure with Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd . One exception from the ongoing collaboration with ECM was his rare album on CBC called Ensemble Fusionaire in 1976. This had three other fellow Canadian musicians and was recorded in St. Mary's Church in Toronto for a different character to the sound than on the ECM recordings.
Wheeler was the trumpet player in the Anthony Braxton Quartet from 1971 to 1976; and from 1977 he was also a member of chamber jazz group Azimuth (band)|Azimuth (with John Taylor (jazz)|John Taylor and Norma Winstone ). In 1997 Wheeler received widespread critical praise for his album Angel Song , which featured an unusual "drummerless" quartet of Bill Frisell (guitar), Dave Holland (bass) and Lee Konitz (alto sax).
== Discography http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kenny%20Wheeler/-Releases/-Albums? page=1 Discography at discogs http://www.emanemdisc.com/psi-musicians.html PSI Records http://www.ecm-records.com/Catalogue/ECM/1600/1691.php? lvredir=712& doctype=Catalogue& acat=Artists%2FWheeler+Kenny%23%23Kenny+Wheeler ECM Records
As leader
1968: Windmill Tilter (Fontana) with The John Dankworth Orchestra
with Sonny Greenwich : Live at the Montreal Bistro ( Justin Time , 1998)
with Brian Dickinson : Still Waters (Hornblower, 1999)
with Fred Hersch , Norma Winstone, Paul Clarvis : 4 in Perspective (Village Life, 2000)
with Marc Copland and John Abercrombie (guitarist)|John Abercrombie : ''That's for Sure (Challenge, 2001)
with Stan Sulzmann and John Parricelli : Ordesa (Symbol, 2002)
with Bob Brookmeyer : Island (Kenny Wheeler album)|Island (Artist House, 2003)
with Marc Copland and John Abercrombie: Brand New (Challenge, 2004)
with Tony Coe , John Edwards, Alan Hacker , Sylvia Hallett, Marcio Mattos, Evan Parker, Philipp Wachsmann : Free Zone Appleby 2003 (PSI, 2004)
with Evan Parker, Gerd Dudek, John Edwards, Paul Dunmall , Paul Rogers, Philipp Wachsmann, Tony Marsh, Tony Levin (drummer)|Tony Levin : Free Zone Appleby 2005 (PSI, 2006)
with Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Tony Levin, John Edwards: Live at the Vortex, London (Rare Music, 2011)
Featured
Robert 'Bob' Cornford, Tony Coe , Kenny Wheeler and the NDR 'Pops' Orchestra: Long Shadows (Chapter One, 2007; recorded 1979)
The Guildhall Jazz Band: Walk Softly (Wave, 1998; recorded 1987)
Tim Brady : Visions (Justin Time, 1988) with L'orchestre de chambre de Montréal
The Upper Austrian Jazzorchestra: Plays the Music of Kenny Wheeler (West Wind, 1996)
The Maritime Jazz Orchestra: Now and Now Again ( Justin Time , 2002; recorded 1998) with Norma Winstone and John Taylor (jazz)|John Taylor
UMO Jazz Orchestra: One More Time (A-Records, 2000) with Norma Winstone
Munich Jazz Orchestra: Sometime Suite (Bassic Sound, 2001)
Colours Jazz Orchestra: Nineteen Plus One (Astarte/Egea, 2009)
As sideman
With John Dankworth
What the Dickens& #33; (album)|What the Dickens! (1963)
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kenny%20Wheeler/-Releases/-Albums? page=1 Kenny Wheeler discography at discogs
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