Dave Holland and Norma Winstone, present Vital Spark, an album featuring a collection of the trumpeter/composer Kenny Wheeler's final compositions.
Jazz legends Dave Holland and Norma Winstone, together with the versatile
London Vocal Project, present Vital Spark--an album featuring a collection of
Kenny Wheeler's final compositions that were sent over time to Pete Churchill
and brought to life through patient arrangement, deep listening, and mutual
trust.
'Vital Spark' captures a rare unity between jazz ensemble and choir, revealing a sound
that's both unforced, delicate, reflective and full of Kenny's character and energy.
The music features new lyrics by Norma Winstone , alongside Wheeler's settings of
poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll, and William Blake. The result is unmistakably
Kenny Wheeler: lyrical but unsentimental, harmonically rich yet spacious.
For Dave, Norma, and Pete, this project is not a retrospective but a personal, shared
act of remembering and reinterpreting, shaped by decades of friendship,
collaboration, and quiet reverence for one of the most singular voices in modern
music.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
Inner Traces Will You Walk A Little Faster Not Waving But Drowning Jazzonia Fuite D'Enfance Vital Spark Infant Joy Heavenly City These are The Things We Trust
