Ended Tuesday and started Wednesday with Music for Large & Small Ensembles is a double album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, released on ECM in 1990
Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:
Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler had been writing for jazz orchestra for three decades before this recording, criminally the only of its kind widely available at the time, was released. With a cast list (mostly veterans of the London jazz scene) to make one swoon, ECM’s first release of the 1990s raised the bar on production, arrangement, composition, and musicianship that had been the label’s prime tenets since its inception in 1969.
It’s easy to praise Wheeler as player, but on Music For Large & Small Ensembles we are given a smorgasbord of his delectable talents as composer. This massive two-disc set begins with The Sweet Time Suite in eight parts...
https://ecmreviews.com/2012/04/14/music-for-large-and-small-ensembles/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLJr_1jhgg&list=PLBJenJIJrq0xsYWt2tSQU8Jc_OBr7GrLN&index=1
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