Kenny Wheeler: quiet man on the cutting edge

Shy and self-effacing, Kenny Wheeler is an unlikely jazz firebrand, but his career tells a very different storySad songs have always made Kenny Wheeler happy. His pieces often sound like backdrops to movies in which women throwing Mona Lisa smiles over their shoulders vanish into mists, or estranged lovers exchange lingering glances. He isn't given to analysis of why this bittersweet music so fascinates audiences and his fellow jazz musicians – even in a business of few words, Wheeler is legen...

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