AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Sam Records - Fontana 660.226 MR 140 Gram Virgin Vinyl
AAA 100% Analogue - Mastered by Kevin Gray
Limited Edition - Pressed at Pallas
Barney Wilen's career took off in 1957. That year he won the Django Reinhardt Award and recorded the soundtrack to the film 'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud' with Miles Davis.
In '59 he recorded the music for the film 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' with Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey, and then composed the music for the film 'Un témoin dans la ville' directed by Edouard Molinaro. For this nocturnal tour through Paris, Barney Wilen is surrounded by the musicians who have been accompanying him for several weeks at the Club Saint-Germain: Kenny Dorham, Duke Jordan, Paul Rovère and Kenny Clarke. The result is a most happy marriage, as the music seems to have been created for the image and the image for the music.
Re-mastered from the original mono master tapes.
Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Mastering.
Vinyl pressed by Optimal in Germany.
10-inch - Facsimile reissue using the original cover art.
Double insert using an original photo from1959.
Includes 4-page booklet.
Bass – Paul Rovère
Composed By – Barney Wilen
Drums – Kenny Clarke
Piano – Duke Jordan
Producer – Marcel Romano
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Barney Wilen
Trumpet – Kenny Dorham
Side A
1. Témoin dans la ville
2. La Pendaison
3. Mélodie pour les Radios-Taxis
4. Poursuite et métro
5. Ambiance pourpre
6. Préméditation dans l'appartement
Side B
1. La vie n'est qu'une lutte
2. Complainte du chauffeur
3. Sur l'antenne
4. Blues de l'attente
5. S.O.S. Radio-Taxis
6. Final au jardin d'Acclimatation