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Dear Prof. Leary

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2008
Track listing: 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.

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Article: Album Review

Barney Wilen and His Amazing Free Rock Band: Dear Prof. Leary

Read "Dear Prof. Leary" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 20, 2008

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, ...