Kenny Wheeler Legacy

Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores is a wide-ranging, expansive new project celebrating the legacy of one of the great, original voices in contemporary jazz, Kenny Wheeler. Released to coincide with the publication of Wheeler’s highly anticipated biography on Equinox Publications, Some Days Are Better explores an undiscovered treasure of rarely-heard works by the iconic composer from a crucial and largely unknown period in his musical emergence. A transatlantic occasion, this project combines features the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra from the UK and University of Miami’s Frost Jazz Orchestra and is augmented by a host of Wheeler fans, devotees, and past colleagues such as Shelly Berg, Etienne Charles, James Copus, John Daversa, Ingrid Jensen, Brian Lynch, Evan Parker, Chris Potter, Nick Smart and Norma Winstone.

Recorded in partnership between the Royal Academy of Music (London) and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, Some Days Are Better comes to light directly following what would have been Wheeler’s 95th birthday (on January 14), and in tandem with the launch of Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler (Brian Shaw and Nick Smart, Equinox Publishing).