Barney Wilen

• 2-CD SET

• ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

• INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET WITH SPECIAL ESSAYS BY FAMED JAZZ WRITERS PASCAL ANQUETIL (JAZZ MAGAZINE) & BRIAN MORTON (PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ)

A COMPLETE NEVER BEFORE HEARD DUO PERFORMANCE BY THE GREAT FRENCH SAXOPHONIST IN PRISTINE SOUND QUALITY!!

“The alchemy of a duo cannot be decreed. It can be verified by the heat of this exchange. The Montreal concert is living proof. With these two musicians, jazz is not a matter of tempo or repertoire, of structures or the number of notes played in each bar. It is above all a matter of breathing, of the punctuation of each phrase, of the courtesy toward silence, a matter of music itself.” Pascal Anquetil (December 2019)

“Wilen’s preferred piano partner, for much of his later career, was the Martinique-born Alain Jean-Marie. He appears on both La Note Bleue and Wild Dogs of the Ruwenzori, but the duo’s Montréal appearance in 1993 is a nice way to study their chemistry at some length.” Brian Morton (December 2019)

PERSONNEL:

• BARNEY WILEN, tenor & soprano sax
• ALAIN JEAN-MARIE, piano

Recorded live at the Festival International de Montréal, Church of the Gesù, Montreal, Canada, July 4, 1993.

TRACKS:

• CD 1 : TOTAL TIME: 75:04 Min
• FIRST CONCERT (8:00 PM)
• 1 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE 10:34
• 2 SKATING IN CENTRAL PARK 10:52
• 3 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT 10:36
• 4 MEDLEY: REPETITION / NO PROBLEM 12:19
• 5 MY FUNNY VALENTINE [Dedicated to Chet Baker] 9:25
• 6 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA [Dedicated to Dizzy Gillespe] 6:00
• 7 LATIN ALLEY 7:20
• 8 GOODBYE 7:58

• CD 2: TOTAL TIME: 72:16 Min.
• SECOND CONCERT (10:30 PM)
• 1 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE #2 5:12
• 2 SKATING IN CENTRAL PARK #2 9:08
• 3 I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU [Dedicated to Chet Baker] 9:26
• 4 BOHEMIA AFTER DARK 6:27
• 5 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT #2 8:32
• 6 MEDLEY: REPETITION #2/NO PROBLEM #2 9:34
• 7 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA #2 [Dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie] 6:27
• 8 BÉSAME MUCHO 10:03
• 9 GOODBYE #2 7:27