User talk:Denti alligator

Spiritual Unity
You moved the release date to December 1965. I've been checking various source books and they aren't clear on release date but intuitively this would mean that ESP recorded the keynote album ESP1002 until after Ayler, Cherry & co had toured Europe, and after ESP had recorded Ayler's switch to a bigger group/sound on ESP1020 Spirits Rejoice in mid-1965, and until he was about to move to Impulse! records. That doesn't feel feasible. The copyright on Spiritual Unity does say 1065 but I'd guess early that yr so will edit out the December. AllyD (talk) 11:21, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it seems a little strange, but '64 certainly can't be right. I'm talking the month and year from this article, which seems well researched enough: http://www.johnkruth.com/ayler.html I'm new to wiki so I couldn't figure out how to add that source. Denti alligator (talk) 22:55, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

There's a range of interesting reviews at, starting with Kenny Dorham's very negative Downbeat review of this and the subsequent batch of ESP releases published in July 1965. Bill Mathieu's review from the same issue I think says "The records sat around my house for a long time" so I'm guessing Spiritual Unity had been available since early that year. AllyD (talk)