Kenny Wheeler
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he was also active in free improvisation and occasionally contributed to rock music recordings. Wheeler wrote more than one hundred compositions and was a skilled arranger for small groups and large ensembles. Wheeler was the patron of the Royal Academy Junior Jazz course.
Genre: jazz, free-jazz, big-band
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Top Tracks
- Kind Folk
- Foxy Trot - Original Version
- Neba
- # 114
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Dark Territory
- Played Straight
- Soundtrack
- That's for Sure
- When We Met
- Canter 2
- Overture
- A Flower is a Lovesome Thing
- Sketch 3
- Fortune's Child
- Close to Mars
- Sketch 2
- Who Knows?
- Quiso
- Sketch 1
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