Person · Male
Kenny Wheeler
- From
- Toronto, Canada
- Active
- 1930–2014
- Releases
- 65
- jazz
- avant-garde jazz
- free improvisation
- free jazz
- post-bop
About
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.
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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.
Member of
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Azimuth flugelhorn, trumpet
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Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra flugelhorn, trumpet
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Klaus König Orchestra flugelhorn, trumpet
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Tony Oxley Quintet flugelhorn, trumpet
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Leo Smith Creative Orchestra trumpet
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Spectrum flugelhorn, trumpet
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Paolo Damiani Ensemble additional, flugelhorn, trumpet
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Kenny Wheeler Quintet eponymous
Discography
Albums
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Windmill Tilter: The Story of Don Quixote
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Song for Someone
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Gnu High
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The Cheque Is in the Mail
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Azimuth
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Deer Wan Apple Music
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Horns
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Seven Steps to Evans
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Around 6 Apple Music
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Double, Double You Apple Music
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Gigolo
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Welcome
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Chautemps
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Land
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Music for Large & Small Ensembles
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Kenny Wheeler - Peter O'Mara - Wayne Darling - Bill Elgart
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Kayak
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Greenhouse Fables
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Tales
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Ten Tributes
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Touché
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All the More Apple Music
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Siren's Song
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Angel Song Apple Music
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A Child's Blessing
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Summerflood
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Jeff Johnston Quartet with Kenny Wheeler
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Still Waters
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A Long Time Ago Apple Music
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One More Time
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Gorizia
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Moon
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That's for Sure
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Sometime Suite
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Ordesa
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Reinventing The World
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Overnight
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Island
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Dream Sequence
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Brand New
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Where Do We Go From Here?
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Other People Apple Music
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What Now? Apple Music
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It Takes Two! Apple Music
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Nineteen Plus One
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One of Many
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The Long Waiting Apple Music
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Six for Six Apple Music
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Mirrors
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Songs for Quintet
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On the Way to Two
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Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler)
Live
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Jazz Standards Live
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Live '71: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends Apple Music
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Under Milk Wood in Hamburg
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The Banff Sessions: A Tribute to Kenny Wheeler
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Live at the Vortex, London
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Free Zone Appleby 2005
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Free Zone Appleby 2003
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Live at Birdland Neuburg
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Live at Roccella Jonica
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Quartet: At Moers Festival
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2002-10-25: Funkhaus, Hamburg, Germany
Links
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Concerts
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Teacher
Also known as
Ken Wheeler
Tags
- jazz and blues
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- b3f8b449-af84-4766-bced-ff9aa6ba6f2b
- ISNI
- 0000000114739701
- IPI
- 00032811413
- IPI
- 00056833168
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 7 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.