Where are all the Kenny Wheeler fans these days?

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I'm a relatively young musician involved in various bands, and most of the players in the bands have never even heard of, let alone like Kenny Wheeler, who's trumpet playing and beautiful music was and still is admired by all the jazz critics. When you look on youtube, the videos with his music are on average yielding below 5,000 views. How can this be possible? He was so well-esteemed... meanwhile everyone knows Miles, Everyone knows Dizzy, Shorter etc. All the young people know all the other old musicians, except Wheeler it seems. If anyone has any idea why this is, I'd be interested to hear your opinions, as i find this rather odd.

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BubbySkittles Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 10 Jun 2020 Location: Harrow Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote BubbySkittles Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Where are all the Kenny Wheeler fans these days? Posted: 10 Jun 2020 at 6:57am
	I'm a relatively young musician involved in various bands, and most of the players in the bands have never even heard of, let alone like Kenny Wheeler, who's trumpet playing and beautiful music was and still is admired by all the jazz critics. When you look on youtube, the videos with his music are on average yielding below 5,000 views. How can this be possible? He was so well-esteemed... meanwhile everyone knows Miles, Everyone knows Dizzy, Shorter etc. All the young people know all the other old musicians, except Wheeler it seems. If anyone has any idea why this is, I'd be interested to hear your opinions, as i find this rather odd.

snobb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site Admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Vilnius Status: Offline Points: 28448	Post Options Post Reply Quote snobb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jun 2020 at 7:02am
	Kenny Wheeler was a Canadian, living in UK, the country which was well known by their rock music but far not so - by jazz. For decades, you needed to be American, or to reside in US to be a jazz star. From other hand, I think Wheeler still is one of most internationally renown UK-based jazz musician

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 34128	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jun 2020 at 7:09am
	I've always enjoyed Kenny's playing, and he was well known to me as far back as the 70s. I moved this to the artist appreciation section. Edited by js - 10 Jun 2020 at 7:13am