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  • 1. Humpty Dumpty
  • 2. The Broken Heart
  • 3. The Lover Mourns
  • 4. Black March
  • 5. Through the Looking Glass
  • 6. The Hat
  • 7. Breughel
  • 8. Tweedledum
  • 9. The Bereaved Swan
  • 10. The Deathly Child
  • 11. My Soul

Mirrors is vast in conception and world class in its execution

Release date: 25 February 2013

Kenny Wheeler flugelhorn

Norma Winstone vocals

London Vocal Project (directed by Pete Churchill)

Nikki Iles piano

Mark Lockheart saxophones

Steve Watts double bass

James Maddren drums

All music by Kenny Wheeler.
Norma Winstone appears courtesy of ECM Records.
Lyrics by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and W.B. Yeats.

Recorded at Red Gables Studio, London on 4th – 8th June 2012 by Dick Hammett.
Additional recording at Red Gables Studio, London on 23rd August 2012 by Dick Hammett.
Mixed by August Wanngren at We Know Music Studio, Copenhagen in September and November 2012.
Mastered by Pete Beckmann in December 2012.
Produced by Pete Churchill and Dave Stapleton.

With the release of ‘Mirrors’, a suite of music composed by Kenny Wheeler set to poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and W.B. Yeats, they are joined by the London Vocal Project, a 24 piece choir directed by the inimitable Pete Churchill. Featuring some of the renowned and celebrated musicians in British Jazz including pianist Nikki Iles, saxophonist Mark Lockheart, bassist Steve Watts and drummer James Maddren, Mirrors is vast in conception and world class in its execution.

‘Undoubtedly a highlight in the lengthy careers of Winstone and Wheeler, those stalwarts of the European jazz scene’. – Blues and Related Stuff

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