Friday, May 24, 2019

Kenny Wheeler “Windmill Tilter”


The following album is featured in this week's installmnt of Full Album Friday.  Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn, with his 1968 record "Windmill Tilter".  It is based on the two part Spanish novel "Don Quixote" or "The Ingenious Gentleman Sir Quixota of La Mancha", published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615 by Miguel Cervantes. The track listing:

1. Preamble
2. Don The Dreamer
3. Sweet Dulcinea Blue
4. Bachelor Sam
5. Sancho
6. The Cave of Montesinos
7. Propheticape
8. Altisidora
9. Don No More

The band lineup is as follows:

Flugelhorn, Composed By – Kenny Wheeler Guitar – John McLaughlin Percussion – Tristan Fry (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9) Piano – Alan Branscombe (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Bob Cornford (#1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9) Saxophone – John Dankworth (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Ray Swinfield (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Tony Robert (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9) Saxophone, Clarinet – Tony Coe Trombone – Chris Pyne (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Mike Gibbs (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9) Trumpet – Derek Watkins (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Henry Shaw (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Henry Lowther (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Les Condon (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9) Tuba – Alf Reece (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9), Dick Hart (# 1, 2, 4 to 6, 8, 9)

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