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

Additional Details

Label: Edition Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/06/26

UPC: 5060509793099