Pharoah also continued to call me to do certain concerts as well as Alice Coltrane. Once Pharoah called me to work with him at a club in the east-village called "Slugs". Saw dust on the floors with the toilet directly next to the bandstand but there was a lot of great music performed there. One night while working there with Pharoah, we had finished the first set and I went outside to get some fresh air, all of a sudden this person came to me and said in a very hurried tone, "yeah man, you're my bass player." Of course I wondered who this person could be. He told me that his name was Albert, Albert Ayler and that he wanted me to do his next record date on Impulse Records.
It turned out to be two records. The first one is called "Music is the healing force of the Universe" and the second is called "Water-music".

Strangely, after I did the two albums for Albert, I began to get calls from everywhere. I was doing a lot of different Jingles and Musak as well other types of calls. I went on the road with a show called "Hair". We toured a bit in Canada. In 1971 I started to tour with an excellent vocalist by the name of Melba Moore. We toured throughout the United States. Melba was in the original company of "Hair". Working for Melba put me at a pivotal point in my playing. We were working at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and for some reason the cellist who was to do "The long and winding road" didn't show up and it was time to do the song. I said to Melba , "let me play the cello part arco on the bass".