Windmill Tilter: The Story of Don Quixote is an album by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, his first as a leader.

[1][2][3] In 2021 it was reissued on vinyl as part of Decca's British Jazz Explosion series, remastered and re-cut from the original master tapes by Gearbox Records.

"[5] John Fordham, writing for Jazzwise, called the recording "a classic album," and commented: "All Wheeler's signature compositional characteristics are already here... Windmill Tilter still sounds like the arrival of the contemporary-jazz gamechanger it was, and this Dankworth band was a world-class outfit.

"[8] Jazz Journal's Derek Ansell noted that the album "never sounds like the brooding Gil Evans orchestra of those times but reminds us of it in the instrumentation and the uses made of it," and remarked: "Thoughtfully crafted flugelhorn outings and solos by McLaughlin, Dankworth and Tony Coe all combine to make this a fascinating exercise in modern big-band jazz of the late 1960s.

"[9] Writing for Critics At Large, John Corcelli stated: "Wheeler has created a conceptual shape to jazz music that was rarely given a voice in 1968.