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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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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La Note Bleue (2021 Remastered Version)
Jazz - Released by Elemental Music Records SL on Dec 1, 1986
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Un témoin dans la ville (1959) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Film Soundtracks - Released by Tsk Music on Apr 1, 1959
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Jazz Sur Seine
Jazz - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on Jan 1, 1958
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Essential Best
International Pop - Released by Venus Records, Inc. on May 27, 2015
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Minor Swing (Remastered)
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Artemis on Nov 25, 2018
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Inside Nitty = Gritty
Jazz - Released by Venus Records, Inc. on Apr 15, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Four Brothers
Jazz - Released by Sonorama on Mar 27, 2015
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Night in Tunisia (Remastered)
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Artemis on Nov 25, 2018
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Swing 39 (Remastered)
Jazz - Released by The Best on Oct 31, 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Lady Bird (EP) (All Tracks Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Hit Singles Records on Mar 11, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo