Vital Spark (Music Of Kenny Wheeler)

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.