Details

10-inch record

*Remastered from the original mono tapes

*Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Mastering
*Vinyl pressed by Optimal in Germany
*Facsimile reissue using the original cover art
*Double insert using an original photo from 1959

Barney Wilens career took off in 1957. That year, he won the Django Reinhardt prize and recorded with Miles Davis the soundtrack of the film Elevator to the Scaffold. Taking advantage of an international fame, he records in 59 the music of the film Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey, then composes himself that of the film Un tmoin dans la ville directed by Edouard Molinaro.

For this night tour through Paris, Barney Wilen is surrounded by the musicians who have accompanied him for several weeks at the Club Saint-Germain: Kenny Dorham, Duke Jordan, Paul Rovre and Kenny Clarke. The result is a very happy marriage, as the music seems to have been created for the image and the image for the music.

PERSONNEL:

• Barney Wilen - (Saxophone)
• Kenny Dorham - (Trumpet)
• Duke Jordan - (Piano)
• Paul Rovre -(Bass)
• Kenny Clarke - (Drums)

Recorded in Paris, December 4, 1957.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Tmoin dans la ville ..... 256
• A2.La Pendaison ..... 059
• A3. Mlodie pour les Radios-Taxis ..... 347
• A4. Poursuite et mtro ..... 280
• A5. Ambiance pourpre ..... 057
• A6. Prmditation dans lappartement ..... 140

• SIDE B
• B1. La vie nest quune lutte ..... 280
• B2. Complainte du chauffeur ..... 038
• B3. Sur lantenne ..... 040
• B4. Blues de lattente ..... 411
• B5. S.O.S. Radio-Taxis ..... 053
• B6. Final au jardin dAcclimatation ..... 339