Barney Wilen & Alain Jean-Mari
Release Date: 23 April 2021
Label: Elemental Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8435395502938
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Two of France's most esteemed jazz musicians, saxophonist Barney Wilen and pianist Alain Jean-Marie, recorded live as a duo at the 1993 Montreal Jazz Festival. This 2CD limited edition includes a 20-page booklet with essays by renowned jazz writers Pascal Anquetil (Jazz Magazine) and Brian Mortan (Penguin Guide To Jazz).
Released from the archives for the very first time, the concerts were recorded just three years before Barney Wilen sadly passed away at just 59. Among the highlights of his career was his collaboration with Miles Davis on the Lift To The Scaffold (Ascenseur pour L'echafaud) soundtrack.
"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
"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
Tracklisting
Cannonball Adderley
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy
Arthur Lee
Woody Shaw
Bill Charlap
Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
Ruby Rushton
Bob James & David Sanborn
Johannes Enders
