Barney Wilen Quintet – Guilde du Jazz 1957 (Mono)
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Barney Wilen (Tenor Saxophone) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Barney Wilen]
Hubert Fol (Alto Saxophone)
Nico Buninck (Piano)
Lloyd Thompson (Bass)
Al Levitt (Drums)
1 LP, Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket printed by Pozzoli in Italy, double insert using an original photo from the session
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Studio
Record Press : Pallas in Germany
Label : SAM Records
Original Label : Guilde du Jazz
Recorded in Paris in 1957
Photo by JC Bernath
Originally released in 1957
Reissued in July 2023
Tracks:
Side A:
- Moving Out
- Brainstorm
- Lloyd's Brother's Tune
- Crystal Ball
- Spracklin
Side B:
- Up In Alsace
- Dink
- Blue Hubert
- The Office
- Papiermento
- Snakes
Awards:
2013 “Recordings of the Year” award by The Audio Beat
Reviews :
When Miles Davis heard Barney Wilen for the first time during a jam session at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris, he exclaimed: “This is the best tenor saxophone I’ve heard in Europe, he plays tenor in an authentic way, much better than many current stars in the States.”
Barney Wilen’s mother was French, his father a successful American dentist-turned-inventor. He grew up mostly on the French Riviera; the family left during World War II but returned upon its conclusion. According to Wilen himself, he was convinced to become a musician by his mother’s friend, the poet Blaise Cendrars. As a teenager he started a youth jazz club in Nice, where he played often.
He moved 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 emerging reputation received a boost in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle film Lift to the Scaffold. Two years later, he performed with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960). He’s probably the first non-US musician to play at the Newport Jazz Festival – it was in 1959.
In 1957 he made his very first album as leader, The Barney Wilen Quintet for the US label Guilde du Jazz / Jazztone at the age of 20. Unfortunately, this record was not widely distributed in France because Barney was under contract with the French label Vogue. This album reflects joy and sadness on an emotional level by the subtletly of Wilen’s musical imagination and physical releasing the essential siprit of jazz swing. On this so rare record, Barney plays with : on alto Hubert Fol, who recorded couple of times with Django Reinhardt. On Piano Nico Buninck, born in Amsterdam, is considered one of the best Young pianist in his country. Lloyd Thompson is a Young talented bassist who played with Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke. On drums Al Levitt, 25, has already toured in the USA with Charles Mingus, Lennie Tristano, Stan Getz and Lee Konitz.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 2 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.33 / 5