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The Wonder Twins The Del Rubio Triplets Octomom

Mickey Mantle Mark McGwire Mario Mendoza

Jason London Percy France Asia Argento

Herbert Viola Miles Dalby Ahmet Ertegun

I would never have pegged Bill Crow as a precursor to Eddie Prevost and the experimental, mostly UK-based musicians associated with "egoless improvisation." But his critique is as much social as it is aesthetic. Those are inextricably linked, of course, especially in music/practice that involves this level of spontaneous collaboration. And I'm not disagreeing with Crow... just interesting to me to see these threads running through to the evolution of an avant-garde Crow likely would have criticized for other reasons.

Two polarizing players who somehow work quite well together.

Diego Luna Pedro Pascal Temuera Morrison

I need to listen to this one again... but my recollection is that my first listening experience was too painful (disappointing, but more than that) to make me want to listen to it again.

All artwork by Don Martin of (later) Mad Magazine fame! The Farmer is the jewel here, IMO.

Not exactly an homage, and more interesting for it.

Margo and Jerry Leadbetter John A. and Alan Lomax Gil Evans and Miles Davis

John Michael Kohler Peter Henckels Sigmund Freud

Arthur Fonzarelli Chuck Lumley Barry Zuckerkorn

Wikipedia mentions this article. Russell, Ross (April 1959) "The Legendary Joe Albany". The Jazz Review. pp. 18–19, 40. If you can somehow secure access to Academia.edu, you can search the full texts of papers there. Looks to be handful of mentions of Joe Albany in their collections. Also, maybe some bread crumbs here: https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2018/05/joe-albany-portrait-of-legend-by-ira.html