A Long Time Ago (album)

A Long Time Ago
Studio album by
Kenny Wheeler
Released October 19, 1999
Recorded September 1997, January 1998
Studio Gateway Studio
Kingston, England
Genre Jazz
Length 63:50
Label ECM
ECM 1691
Producer Manfred Eicher
Kenny Wheeler chronology
Angel Song
(1997) 		A Long Time Ago
(1999) 		Island
(2003)
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A Long Time Ago is an album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler recorded in September 1997 and January 1998 and released on ECM October the following year. The trio features pianist John Taylor and guitarist John Parricelli backed by a brass octet conducted by Tony Faulkner.

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Wheeler.

  1. "The Long Time Ago Suite" – 31:56
  2. "One Plus Three (Version 1)" – 2:20
  3. "Ballad for a Dead Child" – 5:58
  4. "Eight Plus Three / Alice My Dear" – 8:30
  5. "Going for Baroque" – 3:21
  6. "Gnu Suite" – 9:23
  7. "One Plus Three (Version 2)" – 2:22

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