DAVE HOLLAND, NORMA WINSTONE & LONDON VOCAL PROJECT - Vital Spark (Music Of Kenny Wheeler) - 2LP - 'Hyacinth' Coloured Vinyl [FEB 20]

2LP - Limited Edition 'Hyacinth' Coloured Double Vinyl. Featuring three UK Jazz legends: Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, Pete Churchill. Comes with with handwritten notes from Kenny Wheeler sent to Pete Churchill before his death.

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.

Available on hyacinth coloured double LP and Digipak CD editions.

Tracklist: 

Side 1
1. Inner Traces
2. Will You Walk A Little Faster

Side 2
1. Not Waving But Drowning
2. Jazzonia
3. Fuite D'Enfance

Disc 2
Side 1
1. Vital Spark
2. Infant Joy

Side 2
1. Heavenly City
2. These are The Things We Trust

Credits:
Norma Winstone: voice
Dave Holland: bass
Nikki Iles: piano
James Maddren: drums
Mark Lockheart: tenor & soprano saxophone
John Parricelli: guitar (on 'Not Waving But Drowning, Jazzonia, Fuite D'Enfance, Infant Joy & Heavenly City)
London Vocal Project, Director: Pete Churchill