Kenny Wheeler discusses his start in music.

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Kenny Wheeler discusses the Dankworth Orchestra.

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Kenny Wheeler discusses playing music versus recording.

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Q: “Is it different when you’re playing as opposed to recording? Do you play or conceive your music differently whether you’re in person or in a studio?”

A: “Yeah, I think so a little bit. I mean, oh, I do anyway. I mean, I just suppose when I record it, it would be the solos I would play that, it would be the result of whatever hard work I’d done in the last few months, you know. I don't know how to explain it. If you did another record a couple of weeks later, you wouldn’t have time to have done the work that you would have needed to have done to come up with something … not that you have to come up with something different, but you know what I mean. I think you should always be slightly changing your playing, and you can only change it by working on it. I just don’t want to sound the same on records, that’s all.”