Barney Wilen’s La Note Bleue (2CD...

Barney Wilen’s La Note Bleue (2CD Digipack Edition)

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2-CD Digipack Edition

28 Page Booklet

4 Bonus Alternative Takes

French saxophonist BARNEY WILEN’s career was boosted in 1957 when he joined Miles Davis on the soundtrack of Louis Malle’s film noir classic Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. However, Wilen’s popularity slowly waned starting in the 1970s, even though he would produce lots of wonderful music in the intervening years. The release of the LP La Note Bleue in 1987 marked a rebirth in his career. That legendary album followed the success of a Jacques de Loustal & Philippe Paringaux comic book partly inspired by his life, titled Barney et la Note Bleue, which put the saxophonist’s name back into the scene.

Tracklist:

Disc one - The studio Album

1. Bésame mucho
2. No problem (L'habit de lumière) [The matador's suit]
3. Pauline
4. 'Round Midnight' [Round about midnight]
5. Les Jours heureux [Happy Days]
6. Mr Martin (Voleur d'amour) [Thief of Love]
7. Un baiser rouge [A blood red kiss]
8. Portrait de l'artiste avec saxophone[portrait of the artist with saxophone]
9. Whisper not
10. Triste again[Back to sadness]
11. Harlem Nocturne
12. Bésame mucho (reprise)
13. Goodbye
14. All Blues
15. No problem [soprano sax version]*
16. 'Round Midnight' (quintet version)
17. Bésame mucho [solo #2; previously unissued]

Barney Wilen, tenor sax Alain-Jean-Marie, piano Philippe Petit, guitar Riccardo Del Fra, double bass Sangoma Everett, drums.

Recorded at Studio Gimmick, Yerres, France, November 30 & December 1-3, 1986.

Disc two - Le Petit Opportun Broadcast

1. No problem
2. All Blues
3. Bésame mucho
4. Commentary by Claude Carrière
5. 'Round Midnight'
6. Goodbye

Barney Wilen, tenor and soprano saxophone Jacky Terasson, piano Gilles Naturel, double-bass Peter Gritz, drums.

Recorded by Radio France at le Petit Opportun jazz club, Paris, France, September 27, 1989.

What media says about us:

Le Monde - Jazz Wise Magazine - France Musique 

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