BARNEY WILEN & HIS AMAZING FREE ROCK BAND DEAR PROF.LEARY RARE '68 GERMAN MPS LP

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·       BARNEY WILEN AND HIS AMAZING FREE ROCK BAND - DEAR PROF. LEARY - RARE GERMAN-ONLY PRESSING - VERY RARE 1968 GERMAN & JAPAN-ONLY MPS/BASF LP CRM-674

·       GENUINE GERMAN. PRESSING

·       VERY EARLY PRESSING CIRCA 1971 ON RED BASF LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT AND WHITE LOGO

THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-1970s to THE MID-2010s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.  CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US.

·       THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL UNIPAK-STYLE COVER (ONE SIDE OF THE GATEFOLD OPENS, THE OTHER ONE IS A SINGLE-PLY CARDBOARD)

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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Any album combining '60s hits like "Ode to Billie Joe" and "Respect" with Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" deserves more than a passing glance. The late French saxophonist Barney Wilen was already thirty-one when he recorded Dear Prof. Leary with His Amazing Free Rock Band in 1968 for the German MPS label. Best-known by then (and, likely, afterwards as well) as Miles Davis' saxophonist on the trumpeter's noir-esque soundtrack to director Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour L'échafaud (1958), Promising Music's reissue of Dear Prof. Leary presents another side to the largely forgotten Wilen.

Wilen recruited a sextet of players known and unknown, including a very young Joachim Kühn (piano, organ), who'd ultimately become an MPS mainstay, and drummer Aldo Romano, here heard together with the more rock-informed Wolfgang Paap (drums). The group is rounded out by two artists who will be, at best, footnotes in jazz history: guitarist Mimi Lorenzini and bassist Günter Lenz, who'd appear on a handful of MPS releases and, a few years later, the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (ECM, 1990).

While many of MPS' releases feel timeless, Dear Prof. Leary is definitely of its time—a combination of outrageously near-psychedelic free jazz with a rock attitude. Drugs may or may not have been a part of the equation, but in the unusual breakdown during Kühn's high energy title track, where both the keyboardist (on organ) and saxophonist are wailing madly, the tune dissolves completely into a series of guttural noises and primal screams that may or may not allude to some seriously bad tripping. A rocking coda leads nicely into an initially reverent but ultimately free-wheeling, eight-minute take on Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe," featuring an unexpectedly soulful organ solo from Kühn that retains the high velocity extremes that would be his signature by the time of Association P.C.'s 1974 release, Mama Kuku (Promising Music/MPS, 2008), and violinist Zbigniew Seifert's classic Man of the Light (MPS, 1976).

As rock-heavy as the grooves are, the soloing is as loose and unfettered as the time in which it was made. Lorenzini's riff-based "Dur Dur Dur" is simply an opportunity for some angular wails from Wilen, raucous wah wah from the guitarist and soul jazz lines from Kühn, while the twin-drum approach on "You Keep Me Hanging On" creates a turbulent underpinning for some psychedelic in tandem soloing by Wilen and Kühn, this time on piano. Lorenzini and Lenz keep the groove and changes clearly defined until another dissolve into complete freedom that ultimately resolves back to the familiar refrain before ending, once again, in chaos.

Electric and acoustic textures mix throughout the album, but nowhere are they more paradoxically opposed yet integrated as on "Lonely Woman," where Lenz's arco bass and Kühn's exploratory piano mesh with Wilen's lyrical yet liberated soprano. It's a combination that makes Dear Prof. Leary less of a masterpiece than some of Promising Music's reissues, but remains an intriguing curiosity of its time that's certainly worth revisiting.

Track list

The Fool on the Hill; Dear Prof. Leary; Ode to Billie Joe; Dur Dur Dur; Why Do You Keep Me Hanging On; Lonely Woman; Respect.

Personnel

Barney Wilen: soprano and tenor saxophone; Mimi Lorenzini: guitar; Joachim Kühn: piano, organ; Günter Lenz: bass, electric bass; Aldo Romano: drums; Wolfgang Paap: drums.

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY JOHN KELLMAN)

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD:

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(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve, which has - apparently with success - shielded the vinyl from the harmful impact of elements over many years!

(c)           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER):

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        The gatefold cover has partially split seams on 1 out of 4 "legs" of the cover (about 3 inches / 1 inch = 2.5 centimeters). This split seam was delicately taped by the previous owner with a piece of transparent scotch tape

-        Cover has a small, rectangular, sticker residue (small yellowish discoloration from the removed price sticker)

-        Minor shelf wear noted on the top and bottom seams (nothing significant)

-        Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1  (front side) and 2 (back side).

-        Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.  Yellowing is also noted on the INSIDE gatefold

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

-        Cover has two corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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