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Yep .... Arthur Blythe in his prime ....

No one has mentioned that the Pale Hose broke the Mets' record for losses. They finished 41 - 121   .253   51.5 games back of Cleveland

Ok, ABC leased the Riverside catalog from O. Keepnews. But it seems weird/unlikely that this album was originally recorded for the otherwise inactive Riverside. felser's scenario seems plausible enough, and I'll stick on the whole session having been done on spec by somebody, "Raya Productions", with Michel finding them a home, no matter how sideways unlikely a home it was. What's funny is that this OJC has zero previous issue info. None. Neither inside or out.

ABC owned all Impulse titles - that's why they're now owned by Universal.  If ABC at any point owned this Perkins title, it would not have gone with the other Riverside titles to Fantasy (and now to Concord).  That's why the wording "Riverside, distributed by ABC Records" is so important; it doesn't say "Riverside, a division of ABC Records." The liner notes are on archive.org: https://ia803402.us.archive.org/12/items/lp_quietly-there_bill-perkins-quintet-victor-feldman/lp_quietly-there_bill-perkins-quintet-victor-feldman.pdf From Jazz Profiles (https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2021/07/quietly-there-bill-perkins-quintet.html😞 I'm not sure what the exact connection was between this recording, which was made in 1966 for Riverside Records [and which I thought went out of business in 1963], Impulse Records, and Ed Michel, but perhaps some relatedness can be derived from the following paragraph from Ashley Kahn, The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records [2006]: “ENTER MICHEL Ed Michel came to ABC in the late spring of '69 after years of both playing and recording music in the Los Angeles area. He had been bassist in the house band at the Ash Grove folk club, then was recruited by the Pacific Jazz label, where he learned all aspects of record production. Moving to New York City, he furthered his jazz studio experience as a production assistant for Orrin Keepnews at Riverside Records.”