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Miles Davis Quintet Featuring Barney Wilen - Amsterdam Concert (1957) [Lone Hill Jazz, LHJ10141] (speed corrected)
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Lone Hill Jazz LHJ10141, unofficial

"Amsterdam Concert" is a rare live Miles Davis recording from 1957. This album, one of the least known recordings of Miles Davis, was recorded at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on December 8, 1957, a couple of days after the recording of the movie soundtrack "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud." On this concert, Miles didn't play with his regular quintet, but with the same line-up he used for the recording of "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud." It features Barney Wilen on tenor saxophone, René Urtreger on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass and Kenny Clarke on drums.

Swedish trombonist Eje Thelin and French tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen were two of the top European jazz musicians for several decades before their deaths in the 1990s. They first joined forces briefly in Thelin's quartet in 1963. Based in bop and earlier forms of jazz, Thelin and Wilen were open to freer improvising and music from other countries. In 1966 they joined forces, and two sessions are included on the 1966 With Barney Wilen CD. The first one features a quintet with pianist Lars Sjösten, bassist Erik Lundborg, and drummer Rune Carlsson that is joined by eight brass, bass clarinet, and flute for four inventive Thelin originals. While those performances are excellent, it is the other five numbers (which include second versions of a pair of Thelin's tunes plus "It Could Happen to You" and "Dear Old Stockholm") that are of greatest interest.

Barney Wilen - The Osaka Concert (1999) {Trema ‎710604 rec 1994}
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© 1994, 1999 Trema / RTE | ‎710604
Jazz / Post Bop / Cool / Saxophone

Fans of Barney you must have known those delicious moments when you get your hands on a Wilen that has become rare (which is the case with most of his albums). We enter a small record store and behind the electro and pop shelves, we notice a few lockers labeled jazz. Among the misclassified CDs, some albums command attention; we may be at a good address with a few gems to find. We search, we get on all fours to browse in the lower shelves. And there, at the very bottom, we grab a CD by the edges where we discover on the cover, a familiar face. We hold one, we must be careful not to release it under the influence of emotion; the "Barney Wilen" is fishing with bare hands on a lucky day. Once you hold it, you can control your joy, in case the record store changes its mind and increases the price.