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Barney Wilen made a strong impression on the Paris scene in the mid 1950s. Wilen was a self taught player and became one of Europe's best and more modern saxophonists. Bernard Jean Wilen, AKA Barney was born March 4, 1937, in Nice to a French mother and an American father. He studied the alto and, at 16, moved to Paris where he played with Henry Renaud, Bobby Jaspar and Jimmy Gourley 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

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Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

By Miles Davis

Label: Decca Records France
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD1 Générique; L’Assassinat de Carala; Sur l’autoroute; Julien dans l’ascenseur; Florence sur les Champs-Elysées; Dîner au motel; Evasion de Julien; Visite du vigile; Au Bar du Petit Bac; Chez le photographe du motel; CD2 Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées; Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 3; Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 3 (Générique); Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 4; (Florence sur les Champs-Elysées); Assassinat – take 1 (Visite du vigile); Assassinat – take 2 (Julien dans l’ascenseur); Assassinat – take 3 (L’assassinat de Carala); Motel (Dîner au motel); Final – take 1; Final – take 2; Final – take 3; (Chez le photographe du motel); L’Interrogatoire de Julien; Ascenseur (Evasion de Julien); Petit Bac – take 1; Petit Bac – take 2 (Au bar du Petit Bac); Voiture – take 1; Voiture – take 2 (Sur l’autoroute);

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Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

Read "Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
May 27, 2026

A legend has grown up around the music Miles Davis created for Louis Malle's debut film Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud). The story goes that Davis arrived at the Paris studio having never seen the film. He watched the rushes once, then improvised as the footage rolled with his European quintet--René Urtreger on piano, ...

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Miles Davis Quintet: In Concert At The Olympia, Paris 1957

Read "In Concert At The Olympia, Paris 1957" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 7, 2024

Another live Miles Davis recording. Well, once the studio outtakes have dried up, this is the only seam left to mine. Happily, with advances in sound technology, old radio broadcasts are increasingly being dusted down and treated to a little digital TLC. Since 1983, Fresh Sounds Records has been a leading light in reissues and archival ...

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In Concert At The Olympia, Paris 1957

By Miles Davis

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Solar; Four; What's New; No Moe; Lady Bird; Tune Up; I'll Remember April; Bags' Groove; 'Round Midnight; Now's The Time; Walkin'; The Theme.

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Zodiac

By Barney Wilen

Label: We Are Busy Bodies
Released: 2022
Track listing: Poissons; Verseau; Capricorne; Sagittaire; Scorpion; Balance; Vierge; Lion; Cancer; Geìmeaux; Taureu; Beìlier.

Article: Under the Radar

A Different Drummer, Pt. 8: Ustad Zakir Hussain Talks Tabla

by Karl Ackermann
August 25, 2022

Origins of the Tabla The twin hand drum was developed in its current form about 300 years ago on the Indian subcontinent but the roots of the tabla may date to pre-Muslim, Arabia. The name comes from “tabl," the Arabic word for drum, and temple carvings of tabla-like double-hand drums date to 500 BCE. Tabla is ...

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Barney Wilen: Zodiac

by Chris May
May 28, 2022

Tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen's Zodiac is the soundtrack for a mid-1960s film that never got off the storyboard. The backstory... Like other French jazzmen who came of age in the second half of the 1950s, Wilen benefited from the penchant nouvelle vague film directors had for jazz soundtracks. Aged twenty years, Wilen cut his filmic teeth ...

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Miles Davis & Don Cherry: Which One Is The Grifter?

by Chris May
April 25, 2022

The Swiss-based ezz-thetics label's Revisited strand of reissues is a jazz connoisseur's dream. The label identifies outstanding albums of the 1960s, sets one of its gifted audio engineers to mastering them and makes them newly available. Earlier editions of many of these albums are hard to find and the sound on all of them is substantially ...

Article: Under the Radar

Charu Suri: The Jazz Raga

by Karl Ackermann
March 28, 2022

The Roots of Indo-JazzJazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be compared to jazz improvisation. Spontaneous creation in jazz differs from the complex rhythmic structural patterns of Indian improvisation. Shankar became ...