Live At The Festival International De Jazz De Montreal, Church Of The Gesu July 4, 1988
Includes essays by Pascal Anquetil (Jazz Magazine) & Brian Morton (Penguin Guide To Jazz)
“The alchemy of a duo cannot be decreed. It can be verified by the heat of this exchange. The Montreal concertis living proof. With these two musicians, jazz is not a matter of tempo or repertoire, of structures or the number ofnotes played in each bar. It is above all a matter of breathing, of the punctuation of each phrase, of the courtesytoward silence, a matter of music itself.” Pascal Anquetil (December 2019)
“Wilen’s preferred piano partner, for much of his later career, was the Martinique-born Alain Jean-Marie. He appearson both La Note Bleue and Wild Dogs of the Ruwenzori, but the duo’s Montréal appearance in 1993 is a nice way tostudy their chemistry at some length.” Brian Morton (December 2019)