{"id":2795,"date":"2011-07-18T16:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2011-07-18T16:46:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:46:27","slug":"recent-listening-kenny-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/07\/recent-listening-kenny-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Listening: Kenny Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kennywheeler_oneofmany_jk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kennywheeler_oneofmany_jk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kennywheeler_oneofmany_jk\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kennywheeler_oneofmany_jk.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kennywheeler_oneofmany_jk-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kennywheeler_oneofmany_jk-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><strong>Kenny Wheeler<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOne-Many-Kenny-Wheeler%2Fdp%2FB004Y03LX0&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>One Of Man<\/em>y<\/a> (CamJazz). <\/p>\n<p>Wheeler, on flugelhorn, penetrates the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s air of thoughtful melancholy with the pungency of his interval leaps, harmonic adventures and shadings of tone. Seventy-six when this was made (he is now 81), his daring was as undiminished as his rapport with pianist John Taylor. Their collaborations have involved big bands, duets and groups of all sizes in between. Taylor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s touch and chordal sensitivity have much to do with the choices Wheeler makes in his improvisations. Their affinity is striking throughout, nowhere more than in the bright counterpoint of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Canter # 5\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the final deep chords of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Old Ballad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>Bassist Steve Swallow joins them here, adding a third voice and his versatility. Swallow was one of the first bassists after Monk Montgomery to be as convincing on the electric instrument as on the acoustic. He creates not only bass lines of distinctive rhythmic power and tonal purity but also, on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Aneba,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fortune\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Child\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Old Ballad,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d middle- and upper-register \u00e2\u20ac\u0153guitar\u00e2\u20ac\u009d solos of considerable lyricism. <\/p>\n<p>Wheeler, one of the most admired composers in jazz, wrote the ten pieces.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Wheeler-flugelhorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Wheeler-flugelhorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wheeler flugelhorn\" width=\"120\" height=\"93\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2797\" \/><\/a> They combine into a whole that has the qualities of a suite. Some of the titles&#151;\u00e2\u20ac\u009dNow and Now Again,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ever After,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Old Ballad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#151;match the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sense of pensive nostalgia, but when Wheeler rips one of his bracing slides into the stratosphere or takes a surprise harmonic sidetrip, we are very much in the present with an ageless musician. <\/p>\n<p>For a <em>Rifftides<\/em> review of a previous Wheeler album and another in his honor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/11\/recent_listening_kenny_wheeler.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Wheeler, One Of Many (CamJazz). Wheeler, on flugelhorn, penetrates the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s air of thoughtful melancholy with the pungency of his interval leaps, harmonic adventures and shadings of tone. Seventy-six when this was made (he is now 81), his daring was as undiminished as his rapport with pianist John Taylor. 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