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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La Note Bleue (2021 Remastered Version)
Jazz - Released by Elemental Music Records SL on 1 dec. 1986
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Un témoin dans la ville (1959) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Originele soundtracks - Released by Tsk Music on 1 apr. 1959
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Un Temoin Dans La Ville
Jazz - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 jan. 1959
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Jazz Sur Seine
Jazz - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 jan. 1958
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Jazz Sur Seine (Jazz in Paris - Album of 1958)
Barney Wilen, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke & Milt Jackson
Jazz - Released by Jazz Classics on 31 dec. 2018
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Barney Wilen Quintet
Jazz - Released by Fresh Sound Records on 22 feb. 2020
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Jazz Sur Seine
Jazz - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 jan. 1958
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Essential Best
Internationaal variété - Released by Venus Records, Inc. on 27 mei 2015
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Minor Swing (Remastered)
Moderne jazz - Released by Artemis on 25 nov. 2018
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Inside Nitty = Gritty
Jazz - Released by Venus Records, Inc. on 15 apr. 2015
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Four Brothers
Jazz - Released by Sonorama on 27 mrt. 2015
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Jazz Sur Seine
Jazz - Released by Black Sheep Music on 1 jan. 1958
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Un témon dans la ville (Jazz At The Movies - France - Original Soundtrack Album 1959)
Jazz - Released by Soundtrack on 1 jan. 2014
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Premier chapitre 1954-1961 (1954-1961)
Jazz - Released by Fremeaux Heritage on 1 apr. 2015
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Barney Wilen: Jazz sur Seine
Jazz - Released by Blue Velvet on 9 feb. 2015
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Night in Tunisia (Remastered)
Moderne jazz - Released by Artemis on 25 nov. 2018
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Barney (Mono Version)
Jazz - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
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Amsterdam Concert, December 8, 1957
Miles Davis Quintet, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Released by Lone Hill Jazz on 1 jan. 2005
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