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Barney Wilen (March 4 1937–May 25 1996) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 tenor
Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 and soprano saxophonist
Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone was invented in 1840 and is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. The soprano is the second in size of the saxophone family which consists, as generally accepted, of the sopranino saxophone, soprano, Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, and contrabass saxophone....
 and jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 composer.

Wilen was born in Nice
Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
; his father was an American dentist turned inventor, and his mother was French. He began performing in clubs in Nice after being encouraged by Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars

Fr?d?ric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized France in 1916. A writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement....
 who was a friend of his mother. His career was boosted in 1957 when he worked with Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 on the soundtrack Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud.






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Barney Wilen (March 4 1937–May 25 1996) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 tenor
Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 and soprano saxophonist
Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone was invented in 1840 and is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. The soprano is the second in size of the saxophone family which consists, as generally accepted, of the sopranino saxophone, soprano, Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, and contrabass saxophone....
 and jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 composer.

Wilen was born in Nice
Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
; his father was an American dentist turned inventor, and his mother was French. He began performing in clubs in Nice after being encouraged by Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars

Fr?d?ric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized France in 1916. A writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement....
 who was a friend of his mother. His career was boosted in 1957 when he worked with Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 on the soundtrack Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud. In 1959, Wilen wrote his two soundtracks Un Témoin Dans la Ville and Jazz sur scène with Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke

Kenny Clarke was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz....
. He wrote a soundtrack for Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov was a French journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film And God Created Woman ....
's film Les Liaisons Dangeureuse
Les liaisons dangereuses (film)

Les liaisons dangereuses is a 1959 French language film, based on Les liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. It was directed by Roger Vadim, and stars Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Phillipe, and Annette Vadim....
 two years later, working with Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
. Wilen returned to composing for French films in the 1980s and 1990s. In the mid to late 1960s he became interested in rock, and recorded an album dedicated to Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space....
. He also worked with punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
ers before returning to jazz in the 1990s. Wilen played with modern jazz musicians until his death in 1996. He died of cancer
Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
 in Paris at the age 59.

In 1987, French comic book artist
Comic Book Artist

Comic Book Artist was an United States magazine devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s....
 Jacques de Loustal
Jacques de Loustal

Jacques de Loustal is a France comics artist who uses a painterly style reminiscent of David Hockney....
 and author Philippe Paringaux paid homage to Wilen in their "bande dessinée"
Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessin?e in French language and stripverhalen in Dutch language....
 Barney et la note bleue ("Barney and the blue note").

Discography


As leader

  • 1954 : Henri Renaud Quintet - Brodcast
  • 1957 : Tilt! - Swing
  • 1958 : Jazz sur Seine - Philips
  • 1959 : Un témoin dans la ville - Fontana
  • 1962 : Jazz Soundtrack From Mental Cruelty - Decca
  • 1966 : Zodiac Suite - Vogue
  • 1968 : Dear Prof. Leary - MPS
  • 1972 : Moshi - Saravah
  • 1975 : Free Jazz - Mouloudji
  • 1986 : Flashback - Paris Jazz Corner
  • 1987 : La note bleue - IDA
  • 1987 : French Ballads - IDA
  • 1989 : Wild Dogs of the Ruwenzori - IDA
  • 1990 : Paris Moods - Alfa Jazz
  • 1991 : Sanctuary - IDA
  • 1991 : Modern nostalgie (Starbust Forever) - Alfa Jazz
  • 1992 : Dream time - Deux
  • 1992 : Aigre-douce - Alfa global
  • 1993 : Essential Ballads - Alfa Jazz
  • 1993 : Talisman - IDA
  • 1993 : Inside nitty = Gritty - Venus
  • 1994 : Barney Wilen Quartet, New York Romance - Venus
  • 1994 : The Osaka concert - Trema
  • 1995 : Passione - Venus


As sideman

With Art Blakey
Art Blakey

Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
 et les Jazz Messengers :
  • 1959 : Les liaisons dangereuses - Fontana


With Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 :
  • 1957 : Miles Davis And Barney Wilen Quartet
    Amsterdam Concert

    Amsterdam Concert is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet recorded in 1957....
     - Carlyne
  • 1958 : Ascenseur pour l'échafaud - Polygram/Fontana


With John Lewis
John Lewis (pianist)

John Aaron Lewis was an United States jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet....
 :
  • 1956 : Afternoon in Paris - Atlantic


With Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
 :
  • 1959 : Cookin' at Saint-Germain 57-59 - Mythic Sound
  • 1961 : Pianology - Moon


With Martial Solal
Martial Solal

Martial Solal is a France jazz pianist and composer, who is probably most widely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature film Breathless ....
 :
  • 1958 : Martial Solal et son Grand Orchestre - Swing


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