Nothing Is was also my first Sun Ra LP, in school in Austin at the time. That first side, and John Gilmore on Dancing Shadows, started me on the Sun Ra path. The guys at the record store had seen Sun Ra at some legendary performance at the Armadillo World Headquarters, as I recall.
Gene Ammons, The Blues Up and Down, volume 1 (Prestige)
Charlie Byrd, Sugarloaf Suite (Concord)
Al Casey, Buck Jumping' (Prestige/Status/Swingville)
Cedar Walton, Soul Cycle (Prestige)
Dr. Lonnie Smith. Not even in the same universe. Lonnie Liston Smith is one of the worst famous musicians I've ever seen in person (right up there with Bobbi Humphrey)..
Wild Bill Davis.
George Lewis, clarinet.
On TruSound, I only have King Curtis, Old Gold and Jimmy Neely Trio, Miserlou.
The Japanese Prestige discography says the Jesse Powell was recorded on three dates in 1961, with overlapping but not identical personel.
Billy Taylor Trio at Town Hall (Status)
Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Lenny White, Stanley Clarke, Chaka Khan, Echoes of an Era
The Remarkable Carmel Jones (Pacific Jazz)