Artist: Barney Wilen
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
La Note Bleue
Year: 1987
Tracks: 16
Barney Wilen's mother was French, his father a successful American dentist-turned-inventor. He grew up largely on the French Riviera; the household left field during World War II simply returned upon its decision. According to Wilen himself, he was convinced to become a musician by his mother's booster, the poet Blaise Cendrars. As a stripling he started a younker jazz club in Nice, where he played frequently. He affected 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 rising repute received a advance in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle plastic film Lift to the Scaffold. Two years subsequently, 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 manner during the '60s, recording an album entitled Dear Prof. Leary in 1968. In the early '70s, Wilen lED a failed junket of filmmakers, musicians, and journalists to move around to Africa to document pygmy euphony. Later Wilen played in a punk rocker john Rock set called Moko and founded a French Jazzmobile-type organization that took music to people living in outlying areas. He likewise worked in theater. By the mid-'90s, he was working once once again in a bebop nervure in a band with the pianist Laurent de Wilde. Much of Wilen's later work was documented on the Japanese Venus tag.
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