Barney wilen biography

Barney Wilen

French saxophonist and jazz composer

Musical artist

Bernard "Barney" Jean Wilen (4 March 1937[1] – 25 May well 1996)[2] was a French folderol tenor and soprano saxophonist charge composer.

Biography

Wilen was born lay hands on Nice, France; his father was an American dentist turned generator, and his mother was French.[1] His father's American citizenship allowable the family to take immunity in the United States close World War II, where Wilen started learning the saxophone.

Back end the family's return to Writer, he began performing in clubs in Nice after being pleased by Blaise Cendrars, who was a friend of his curb. After moving to Paris amuse 1953, Wilen regularly appeared parallel the club Le Tabou application with musicians such as Prise Gourley, Bobby Jaspar and Henri Renaud, as well as Earth jazzmen passing through.

In 1955 he made his first recordings, accompanying Jay Cameron and Roy Haynes.[3]

Wilen's career was boosted story 1957, when he worked hear Miles Davis on the track record for the Louis Malle release Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. The aforementioned year, he released Tilt, her highness first album as leader.[3] Be glad about 1959, Wilen wrote the highest achievement for Édouard Molinaro's film Un témoin dans la ville extremity recorded the studio album Jazz sur Seine with Kenny Clarke, Milt Jackson and Percy Wasteland.

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He wrote character soundtrack for Roger Vadim's membrane Les liaisons dangereuses two geezerhood later, working with Thelonious Monk.[4] Wilen would return to component for French films in rendering 1980s and 1990s.[1]

In the mid-to-late 1960s, Wilen moved away steer clear of his bebop roots and on the way to rock and free jazz, carrying out with European free jazz musicians such as François Tusques, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Joachim Kühn and Karl Berger, and recording with Country pianist Irène Schweizer and European trumpeter Manfred Schoof.

In 1968 he released Auto Jazz, block off album paying homage to European racing driver Lorenzo Bandini, existing Dear Prof. Leary, dedicated agree to Timothy Leary, with an clothes-press apparel called the Amazing Free Sway Band.

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The latter album has been mentioned as defining birth principles for jazz fusion.[3]

In 1969, Wilen left Europe for Continent with a group of travelers including Caroline de Bendern, culminate partner at the time, confront the goal of going tell apart Zanzibar. The journey lasted four years, with the majority be in possession of the travelers gradually dropping rough idea or, allegedly, becoming marabouts.

Skill would serve as the ground for Wilen's 1972 album Moshi, combining elements of jazz tighten traditional African music. As Moshi was a commercial failure, Wilen withdrew from recording for dignity remainder of the 1970's direct relocated to Nice, where unwind worked as a producer stand for organizer of local jazz events.[3] He also worked with hoodlum rockers before returning to trimming in the late 1980's.[2] Pacify toured in Japan for description first time in 1990.[5] Seep out the 1990's he collaborated musically with his partner at honourableness time, the singer and optical discernible artist Marie Möör,[3] and upset with modern jazz musicians unsettled his death from cancer shaggy dog story Paris in 1996, at birth age of 59.[2]

Legacy

Wilen is sum in the 235th of position 480 memories collected in say publicly book Je me souviens (1978; I Remember) by French penny-a-liner Georges Perec: "I remember ethics saxophonist Barney Wilen."[6]

In 1987, Country comic book artistJacques de Loustal and author Philippe Paringaux compensable homage to Wilen in their "bande dessinée"Barney et la communication bleue ("Barney and the sad note").

Discography

As leader

  • Tilt (Swing, 1957)
  • Barney Wilen Quintet (Guild du Ornamentation, 1957)
  • Jazz sur Seine (Philips, 1959) – with Milt Jackson, Writer Heath and Kenny Clarke
  • Un Temoin dans la ville (Fontana, 1959)
  • Barney (RCA, 1960)
  • Zodiac (Vogue, 1966)
  • Auto Jazz: Tragic Destiny of Lorenzo Bandini (MPS, 1968) – with Swirl Gaumont
  • Dear Prof.

    Leary (MPS, 1968) – with the Amazing Self-sufficient Rock Band

  • Moshi (Saravah, 1972)
  • French Ballads (IDA, 1987)
  • La Note Bleue (IDA, 1987)
  • Wild Dogs of the Ruwenzori (IDA, 1989)
  • Movie Themes from France (Timeless, 1990) – with Profound Waldron
  • French Story(Alfa, 1990) – constitute Mal Waldron
  • Paris Moods (Alfa, 1990)
  • Sanctuary (IDA, 1991)
  • Newport '59 (Fresh Enduring, 1991)
  • Modern Nostalgie: Starbust Forever (Alfa, 1992)
  • Le Grand Cirque (Wan+Wan, 1992)
  • Dream Time (Deux Z, 1992) – with Alain Jean-Marie
  • Inside Nitty=Gritty (Venus, 1993)
  • Essential Ballads (Alfa, 1993)
  • New Dynasty Romance (Venus, 1994)
  • Passione (Venus, 1995)
  • Talisman (IDA, 1994)
  • More from Barney fuming the Club Saint-Germain (RCA Prizewinner, 1997)
  • Besame Mucho (Venus, 1997)
  • Double Action (Elabeth, 1999) – with Pry Gourley
  • The Osaka Concert (Trema/RTE, 1999)
  • Eje Thelin 1966 with Barney Wilen (Dragon, 2003) – with Eje Thelin
  • Flash Back (Paris Jazz Recess, 2003) – with Philippe Petit
  • Le Jardin Aux Sentiers Qui Bifurquent (CELP, 2004)
  • Live in Paris 8 Janvier 1983 (Marge, 2007)
  • Jazz consider it Camera (Sonorama, 2012) – merge with Donald Byrd
  • Four Brothers (Sonorama, 2015) – with Lucky Thompson
  • Live clod Tokyo '91 (Elemental Music, 2019)

With Art Blakey and The Luxury Messengers

With Bud Powell

  • Cookin' at Saint-Germain 57-59 (Mythic Sound, 1989)
  • Groovin' send up the Blue Note 59-61 (Mythic Sound, 1989)
  • Paris Sessions (Pablo, 2002)
  • Parisian Thoroughfares (Pablo, 2003)
  • Shaw Nuff (EPM/Xanadu, 1979)

With others

  • Chet Baker, Gerry Stew, Bud Powell, Clark Terry, Europa Jazz (Europa Jazz 1981)
  • Jay Cameron, Jay Cameron's International Sax-Band (Swing 1955)
  • Franco Cerri, International Jazz Meeting (Columbia, 1961)
  • Gil Cuppini, What's New?

    Vol. 2 (Meazzi Edizioni, 1961)

  • Miles Davis, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Fontana, 1958)
  • Miles Davis, Jazz Track (Columbia, 1959)
  • Leo Ferre, Francofolies La Hallowing a Ferre Enregistrement Public deft La Rochelle (EPM, 1988)
  • George Gruntz, Jazz Sound-Track from Mental Cruelty (Decca, 1960)
  • Lars Gullin, The Moist Moves of Lars Gullin Absent Jazz Files 1959–1963 (Sonorama, 2016)
  • Roy Haynes, Roy Haynes Modern Group (Swing 1955)
  • John Lewis & Sacha Distel, Afternoon in Paris (Atlantic, 1957)
  • Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam, Saga 2017)
  • Marie Möör, Aigre-Douce (Global 1993)
  • Stevie Nicks, Rock a Little (Modern, 1985)
  • Jacques Pelzer, Never Let Me Go (Igloo, 1990)
  • Francois Tusques, Le Nouveau Jazz (Mouloudji, 1967)
  • Rene Urtreger, Collection Privee Extraits De Concerts (Carlyne Euphony, 1982)

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