Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was a Canadian trumpeter, flugelhorn player and composer, born in Toronto, who settled in London in 1952. He moved between big bands, modern jazz and free improvisation, and he is best known as a composer and soloist on a long run of ECM albums, among them Gnu High (1975), which features Keith Jarrett. Wheeler played in the John Dankworth Orchestra from 1959 to 1965, in Anthony Braxton's quartet from 1971 to 1976 and with Dave Holland in the 1980s, and he took part in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Globe Unity Orchestra.
