Artist: Barney Wilen
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
La Note Bleue
Year: 1987
Tracks: 16
Barney Wilen's mother was Daniel Chester French, his father-God a successful American dentist-turned-inventor. He grew up for the most part on the Daniel Chester French Riviera; the household left field during World War II merely returned upon its decision. According to Wilen himself, he was convinced to turn a musician by his mother's recall dose, the poet Blaise Cendrars. As a teenager he started a spring chicken jazz club in Nice, where he played frequently. He affected to Genus Paris in the mid-'50s and worked with such American musicians as Bud Colin luther Powell, Benjamin Kubelsky Golson, Miles John Davis, and J.J. Lyndon Johnson at the Club St. Germain. His insurrection repute received a advance in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle plastic film Lift to the Scaffold. Deuce age after, he performed with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960). Wilen began workings in a rock-influenced fashion during the '60s, recording an record album entitled Dear Prof. Timothy Francis Leary in 1968. In the ahead of time '70s, Wilen light-emitting diode a failed junket of filmmakers, musicians, and journalists to move around to Africa to document pigmy euphony. Later Wilen played in a goon rocker john the Evangelist Rock set called Moko and founded a French people Jazzmobile-type organization that took euphony to people living in outlying areas. He similarly worked in theater of operations. By the mid-'90s, he was workings once once over again in a bop vein in a band with the piano player Laurent de Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Much of Wilen's by and by work was documented on the Nipponese Genus Venus tag.
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