“Dear Prof. Leary” is not only a super-rare and highly touted collectors item but also one of the earliest and strangest examples of the upcoming Jazz/Rock Fusion recordings that would soon transform the Jazz world. Originally released in 1968 on MPS, Barney Wilen And His Amazing Free Rock Band’s “Dear Prof. Leary” l.p. was a sextet of two trios, one playing the more Rock style and the other in the Jazz idiom, complete with two drummers, producing what can only be described as psychedelic Free-Jazz. Highlights include covers of The Beatles “The Fool On The Hill”, Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” and Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe”, scattered amongst the originals