Release Date: 20 September 2019
Label: Elemental Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8435395502716
Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop
Release Date: 20 September 2019
Label: Elemental Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8435395502709
Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop
Description
Elemental Music
BARNEY WILEN QUARTET - LIVE IN TOKYO ´91
A NEVER BEFORE HEARD QUARTET PERFORMANCE BY THE GREAT FRENCH SAXOPHONIST IN PRISTINE SOUND QUALITY ON 180gram VINYL. ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED.
Born in Nice, Barney Wilen’s (1937-1996) career was boosted in 1957 when he worked with Miles Davis 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. He also wrote a soundtrack for Roger Vadim’s film Les liaisons dangereuses two years later, working with Thelonious Monk. Wilen toured in Japan for the first time in 1990 and returned the following year when this concert was taped. He died of cancer in Paris at the age of 59
BARNEY WILEN - TENOR & SOPRANO SAX, OLIVIER HUTMAN - PIANO & ELECTRIC PIANO, GILLES NATUREL- BASS, PETER GRITZ - DRUMS.
RECORDED LIVE AT THE KEYSTONE KORNER, TOKYO, JAPAN, FEBRUARY 11, 1991.
Description
Elemental Music
A COMPLETE NEVER BEFORE HEARD QUARTET PERFORMANCE BY THE GREAT FRENCH SAXOPHONIST IN PRISTINE SOUND QUALITY!! ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED.
BARNEY WILEN - TENOR & SOPRANO SAX, OLIVIER HUTMAN - PIANO & ELECTRIC PIANO, GILLES NATUREL - BASS, PETER GRITZ - DRUMS. RECORDED LIVE AT THE KEYSTONE KORNER, TOKYO, JAPAN, FEBRUARY 11, 1991.
Born in Nice, Barney Wilen’s (1937-1996) career was boosted in 1957 when he worked with Miles Davis 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. He also wrote a soundtrack for Roger Vadim’s film Les liaisons dangereuses two years later, working with Thelonious Monk. Wilen toured in Japan for the first time in 1990 and returned the following year when this concert was taped. He died of cancer in Paris at the age of 59.
INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET CONTAINING PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED COLOR PHOTOS FROM THE ACTUAL CONCERT, AS WELL AS SPECIAL ANNOTATIONS BY BRUNO PFEIFFER, PATRICK WILEN, GILLES NATUREL & OLIVIER HUTMAN
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Bill Evans
Arthur Lee
Woody Shaw
Bill Charlap
Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon
Steve Harley
Frank Butler
Chet Baker
