简介：by Chris Kelsey\nBarney Wilen's mother was French, his father a successful American dentist-turned-inventor. 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. As a teenager he started a youth jazz club in Nice, where he played often. He moved to Paris in the mid-'50s and worked with such American musicians as Bud Powell, Benny Golson, Miles Davis, and J.J. Johnson at the Club St. Germain. His emerging reputation received a boost in 1957 when he played with Davis on the soundtrack to the Louis Malle film Lift to the Scaffold. Two years later, he performed with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1960). Wilen began working in a rock-influenced style during the '60s, recording an album entitled Dear Prof. Leary in 1968. In the early '70s, Wilen led a failed expedition of filmmakers, musicians, and journalists to travel to Africa to document pygmy music. Later Wilen played in a punk rock band called Moko and founded a French Jazzmobile-type organization that took music to people living in outlying areas. He also worked in theater. By the mid-'90s, he was working once again in a bebop vein in a band with the pianist Laurent de Wilde. Much of Wilen's later work was documented on the Japanese Venus label. 简介：Barney Wilen出生在法国尼斯，是法国著名的男高音萨克斯和爵士乐作曲家。 他的父亲是一位美国牙医发明家，他的母亲是法国人。Barney Wilen成长于法国南部尼斯的蔚蓝海岸，演出的地点是巴黎圣杰曼的温柔氛围。Barney Wilen是个天才，自学的萨克斯，当与大师们同台时并没让他怯场，而是更确认了自己的才华。成名后，他从巴黎转战爵士之都纽约是在五十年代初，成为音乐界最被看好的乐手，并与戴维斯(Miles Davis)、亚特.布雷基(Art Blakey)等人合作。现实中的Barney留下了许多绝佳的演奏。<br/>