Who Are You? The Music of Kenny Wheeler

by Duncan Hopkins

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Compact Disc of the new release Who Are You? featuring Ted Quinlan and Reg Schwager on guitars, Michel Lambert on drums and Duncan Hopkins on double bass. Artwork by Neil McVey

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1.	Who Are You? 05:34	buy track
2.	Foxy Trot 05:54	buy track
3.	We Salute The Night 06:01	buy track
4.	Nicolette 04:56	buy track
5.	Mark Time 05:45	buy track
6.	St. Catharines Suite - Montebello 04:06	buy track
7.	St. Catharines Suite - Kitts 05:38	buy track
8.	St. Catharines Suite - Salina St. 07:25	buy track

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Who Are You? is British/Canadian bassist Duncan Hopkins’ seventh album as a leader. While his past recordings have consisted almost entirely of original material, his latest offering is a celebration of his mentor, the trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014.)
The band employs two of Canada’s finest guitar players in Reg Schwager (C.M.) and Ted Quinlan, and is rounded out by Michel Lambert on drums and Hopkins on double bass. All four of these musicians worked with Ken Wheeler at some point in their careers, and know his music well.

Most of the repertoire was sourced from Wheeler’s recordings, with the exception of the final three tracks: a suite by Hopkins himself, written at Wheeler’s suggestion. Hopkins had a hand written copy of a piece Wheeler wrote for a six guitar group from Buffalo, NY which had never been recorded. Scrawled on the first page was a message from Wheeler, written with his signature self-deprecating sense of humour: “This could be a part of the St. Catharines Suite, if it is any good.”

Hopkins then took a piece of Wheeler’s from a 1976 CBC recording called Kitts - the nickname for the city they both grew up in, albeit forty years apart. He completed the suite with an original of his own called Montebello - the name of the park where Wheeler and Hopkins met at the end of Salina St.

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released May 26, 2023

DUNCAN HOPKINS: DOUBLE BASS
REG SCHWAGER: GUITAR
TED QUINLAN: GUITAR
MICHEL LAMBERT: DRUMS

Recorded by Walter Sobczak
At Revolution Recording, Toronto, 23 August & 29 September 2022

Mixed By Walter Sobczak, Duncan Hopkins, Ted Quinlan, Reg Schwager
At Revolution Recording, Toronto, 26 July 2022
Assisted By Luke Schindler

Mastered By Scott Lake
At Subterranean Sound, Toronto, 6 November 2022

Design by Yeşi̇m Tosuner
Artwork by Neil Mcvey

Produced by Duncan Hopkins & Walter Sobczak

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Duncan Hopkins Toronto, Ontario

Double bassist, composer and arranger Duncan Hopkins has been working at the highest levels of jazz for over twenty years. In that time he has worked with such luminaries as Rob McConnell, Scott Hamilton, Houston Person, Warren Vache, Ed Bickert, Mark Murphy, Peter Appleyard, Dianna Krall, Kenny Wheeler, D.D. Jackson, Sam Rivers, Harry Allen and Edward Simon to name but a few. ... more

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