Barney Wilen Quartet: Live In Tokyo '91 [2CD]

Straightahead / Mainstream Jazz
premiera polska: 2023-04-01
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Francja
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's Info:
A COMPLETE NEVER BEFOREHEARD QUARTET PERFORMANCE BY THE GREAT FRENCH SAXOPHONIST IN PRISTINE SOUND QUALITY!!
This fine concert was recorded directly from the console to my father’s SONY DAT. Thanks to his farsightedness and passion for technology we are now able to enjoy what went down almost 30 years ago at the Keystone Korner in Tokyo. My special thanks to Elemental Music. Patrick Wilen, March 2019.

DownBeat
French saxophonist Barney Wilen’s a relatively unknown figure in the States; it’s perhaps his Zodiac or Moshi that obsessive diggers and avantists best know him for. But Wilen’s career stretched from the 1950s, when he recorded with Miles Davis and innumerable expat Americans, until his death in 1996.
A newly issued set, Live In Tokyo ’91, showcases the bandleader late in his career, still toting an assured tenor sound alongside a band performing at the Keystone Korner in Japan. It’s a straightahead effort, but so solid a recording that even those coming to the album hoping for the eccentricities deployed on Zodiac and Moshi should be sated by the bop dispensed here. A smoky take of Sonny Rollins’ “Doxy” comes just after a rendition of “Besame Mucho,” which is honestly a more fiery and rewarding interpretation than it has any right to be by 1991.
The set gets bogged down a bit when on the second disc the quartet turns to “Latin Alley” and features a pretty dated-sounding keyboard, courtesy of Olivier Hutman. It’s not a regrettable performance, just one that shows its age. And, for the most part, that’s the only disparaging thing to be said about Live In Tokyo ’91. While Wilen really never broke through in the States, the 14-tune recording could work to introduce a confident and thoughtful player to folks who never went digging for his work in the first place.
By Dave Cantor

muzycy:
Olivier Hutman: Piano, Electric Piano
Barney Wilen: Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Gilles Naturel: Bass
Peter Gritz: Drums

utwory:
CD1:
1. Introduction 1:09
2. Beautiful Love (Egbert VanAlstyne, Haven Gillespie, Victor Young, Wayne King) 13:17
3. L'Âme Des Poètes (Charles Trenet) 13:05
4. Mon Blouson [C'est Ma Maison] 8:52
5. Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours ? 11:37
6. Bésame Mucho 12:22

CD2:
1. How Deep Is The Ocean? (Irving Berlin) 12:11
2. Little Lu 9:47
3. Old Folks (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) 11:12
4. Latin Alley 11:40
5. Bass Blues 8:57
6. No Problem [From Liaisons Dangereuses] 9:38
7. Goodbye 5:45
8. Doxy [Encore] 6:47

total time - 60:22/75:57
wydano: 2019
nagrano: Recorded live at the Keystone Korner, Tokyo, Japan on February 11, 1991

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