Wilen, Barney

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Barney Wilen
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Name	Wilen, Barney Gender: M
Birthname	Wilen, Bernard Jean
born on	4 March 1937 at 12:00 (= 12:00 noon )
Place	Nice, France, 43n42, 7e15
Timezone	GMT h0w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA
Astrology data	13°31' 03°52 Asc. 11°52'

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Biography

French musician, a tenor saxophonist. He grew up in the USA, recorded with Roy Haynes (1954), and around 1955 appeared at the Club St.-Germain in Paris with Kenny Clarke, J.J. Johnson, Benny Golson, and Bud Powell. After recording with John Lewis in 1956, he worked again with Powell, 1957-1959. Wilen worked along with Miles Davis in the recording of the soundtrack to the film "L’ascenseur Pour L’échafaud," 1957 as well as recording with Milt Jackson, 1958 and Kenny Dorham, 1959. As a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers he worked on the soundtrack of the film "Dangerous Liaisons."

Wilen lived in Africa from 1968 to 1973 and in 1977 returned to Nice. In 1982 he embraced jazz-rock, and experimented with a fusion of jazz and African rhythms; in his later work he favored a bop style that recalls his playing in the late 1950s.

He married on 8/12/1976 and divorced on 10/06/1990. Died of cancer on 5/25/1996, Aubervilliers, France.

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Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1954 (Recording with Roy Haynes)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1955 (Club St. Germain appearance)

• Work : Begin Major Project 1956 (Worked with John Lewis)

• Work : Begin Major Project 1957 (Worked two years with Bud Powell)

• Family : Change residence 1968 (Lived in Africa five years)

• Family : Change residence 1977 (Moved back to Nice)

• Work : Begin Major Project 1982 (Began working in jazz-rock)

• Relationship : Marriage 12 August 1976

• Relationship : Divorce dates 6 October 1990 (After 14 years)

• Death by Disease 25 May 1996 (Cancer, age 59)

Source Notes

Petitallot quotes B.C., Cadran No.32, 7/1996

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (One)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Tenor sax)

• Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer (Soundtracks)

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Terminal)

• Lifestyle : Home : Many moves (USA, Africa, France)

• Lifestyle : Work : Work in team/ Tandem (With other musicians)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Jazz (Jazz-rock)

• Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Night club appearances)