Kenny Wheeler discusses his role in studio recording in the '50s & '60s

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Kenny Wheeler discusses synthesizers

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Kenny Wheeler talks about musical legacy

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Q: “Have you ever been interested in that, as somebody who writes music and is interested in sound, have you ever played around with synthesizers?”

A: “I'd like to in the sense that ... I mean, you don't get a chance to or I don't ... most of us don't get a chance to have our music played very much. So I suppose to be able to sit at home and get a whole composition of your own, you know, that can sound a little bit like, as I said it, big band. At least to have it on tape and listen to it could be … I don't know, what would it be? Maybe that would be an ego trip. I don't know what it was. But generally you would know sort of what it's going to sound like anyway, I guess, but that would be the main interest for me.”