''Moon'' is a studio album by Canadian musician
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 i ...
and British pianist
John Taylor, recorded in 2001 and released on Egea Records. The album also features
clarinetist
This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet.
Classical clarinetists
* Laver Bariu
* Ernest Ačkun
* Luís Afonso
* Cristiano Alves
* Michel Arrignon
* Dimitri Ashkenazy
* Kinan Azmeh
* Alexander Bader
* Carl Baerma ...
Gabriele Mirabassi
Gabriele Mirabassi is an Italian jazz clarinetist.
Career
He was born in Perugia and is a graduate of the Morlacchi Conservatory. His teacher told him avoid playing jazz because it would damage his technique, so at home he learned jazz on the ...
on some tracks.
Reception
The authors of
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled b ...
awarded the album 3 stars, commenting: "many beautiful moments for this long-standing partnership".
In a review for
All About Jazz
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, Enzo Vizzone wrote: "Wheeler and Taylor have produced some great music together in the past, but seldom as irresistibly gorgeous as this... The material, six originals by Wheeler, three by Taylor, allow free rein to their imagination and the results are sublime, their beauty enhanced by the sensitively detailed recording".
Track listing
''All compositions by Kenny Wheeler unless otherwise noted.''
#"After the Last Time" (John Taylor) - 4:23
#"Flo" - 4:59
#"Ambleside" (Taylor) - 6:03
#"Introduction to No Particular Song" - 7:07
#"Moon" (Taylor) - 4:46
#"Sly Eyes" - 7:53
#"3/4 P.M." - 5:36
#"Derivation" - 5:55
#"Medium 30" - 3:53
Personnel
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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 i ...
- flugelhorn
*
John Taylor - piano
*
Gabriele Mirabassi
Gabriele Mirabassi is an Italian jazz clarinetist.
Career
He was born in Perugia and is a graduate of the Morlacchi Conservatory. His teacher told him avoid playing jazz because it would damage his technique, so at home he learned jazz on the ...
- clarinet
References
Kenny Wheeler albums
2001 albums
Collaborative albums
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