Barney Wilen
Barney Wilen's mother was French, his father a successful American dentist-turned-inventor. He grew up mostly on the French Riviera; the family left during World War II but returned upon its conclusion. According to Wilen himself, he was convinced to become a musician by his mother's friend, the poet Blaise Cendrars. As a teenager he started a youth jazz club in Nice, where he played often. He moved to Paris in the mid-'50s and worked with such American musicians as Bud Powell, Benny Golson, Miles Davis, and J.J. Johnson at the Club St. Germain. His emerging reputation received a boost in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle film Lift to the Scaffold. Two years later, he performed with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960). Wilen began working in a rock-influenced style during the '60s, recording an album entitled Dear Prof. Leary in 1968. In the early '70s, Wilen led a failed expedition of filmmakers, musicians, and journalists to travel to Africa to document pygmy music. Later Wilen played in a punk rock band called Moko and founded a French Jazzmobile-type organization that took music to people living in outlying areas. He also worked in theater. By the mid-'90s, he was working once again in a bebop vein in a band with the pianist Laurent de Wilde. Much of Wilen's later work was documented on the Japanese Venus label.
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Barney Wilen Quartet: Newport '59
Jazz - Erschienen bei Fresh Sound Records am 14.06.1990
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Swing 39 (Remastered)
Jazz - Erschienen bei The Best am 31.10.2022
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Just at the Turn of the Tide
Jazz - Erschienen bei turn of the tide am 28.04.2023
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The Modern Jazz Quartet
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Erschienen bei Mile End am 05.05.2008
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A Prairie Windstorm
Jazz - Erschienen bei prairie windstorm am 09.02.2023
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Nightingale
Jazz - Erschienen bei oldies and hits for future am 10.05.2019
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Jazz Milestones: Barney Wilen
Jazz - Erschienen bei 21-Music am 10.10.2013
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La vie n'est qu'une lutte (From "Un témon dans la ville")
Pop - Erschienen bei Savoy Records am 01.10.2021
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Jazz Meets Film Music, Vol. 22: Un Témoin Dans La Ville
Jazz - Erschienen bei 21-Music am 10.10.2013
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St. Nicholas - For Young Folks
Jazz - Erschienen bei St. Nicholas Day am 09.12.2021
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Two Original Soundtracks; 'Mental Cruelty (Seelische Grausamkeit)' & 'Témoin Dans La Ville'
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei PROFOUND am 10.02.2022
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Carousel
Jazz - Erschienen bei Carooousel & mooore am 26.06.2019
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Jazz Masters, Vol. 2
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Erschienen bei Diamond Days am 24.09.2013
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The Jazz Masters Collection, Vol. 9
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Erschienen bei Diamond Days am 05.05.2008
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