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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Whisper Not
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Released by Mg2 on 24 Sep 2013
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Barney Wilen Quartet: Newport '59
Jazz - Released by Fresh Sound Records on 14 Jun 1990
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When We Were in Paris, Vol. 2: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers & Barney Wilen
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Jazz - Released by Supreme Media on 1 Feb 2013
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A Prairie Windstorm
Jazz - Released by prairie windstorm on 9 Feb 2023
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Swing 39 (Remastered)
Jazz - Released by The Best on 31 Oct 2022
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Just at the Turn of the Tide
Jazz - Released by turn of the tide on 28 Apr 2023
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The Modern Jazz Quartet
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Released by Mile End on 5 May 2008
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Nightingale
Jazz - Released by oldies and hits for future on 10 May 2019
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Jazz Milestones: Barney Wilen
Jazz - Released by 21-Music on 10 Oct 2013
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La vie n'est qu'une lutte (From "Un témon dans la ville")
Pop - Released by Savoy Records on 1 Oct 2021
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The Jazz Masters Collection, Vol. 9
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Barney Wilen
Jazz - Released by Top Tracks on 30 Oct 2013
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Jazz Meets Film Music, Vol. 22: Un Témoin Dans La Ville
Jazz - Released by 21-Music on 10 Oct 2013
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St. Nicholas - For Young Folks
Jazz - Released by St. Nicholas Day on 9 Dec 2021
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Two Original Soundtracks; 'Mental Cruelty (Seelische Grausamkeit)' & 'Témoin Dans La Ville'
Film Soundtracks - Released by PROFOUND on 10 Feb 2022
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