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Next up is Patton's Boogaloo With Sunshine Man Harold Alexander, George Brown, Pablo Landrum & Vincent McEwan.

Actually going by the full "Braithwaite" on the cover. Side question is that I'm wondering if he was related to Junior Braithwaite of early Wailers fame? And actually, I think Braith might be playing his Braithophone! It's a Stritch & soprano mended together. Wild wild stuff.

Actually, I'm now noticing that Braith is playing a Stritch. At first it sounded like the sax was distant, then almost kazoo-ish. Now that I know it's a Stritch I take back my bad SQ comment. This is a damn good album. I wonder if there were second thoughts about how the Stritch sounded on the recording, but not the overall recording.

Moving on to more Patton, this time Blue John. Per Discogs there was only an original test pressing of this LP on plastylite(!) then absolutely nothing until the 1986 DMM LP and cassette(!!!). Later on came CDs. Wild. They must not have thought much about this album. Now that I'm listening to it maybe it had to do with subpar sonics from the session? Or is that just my CD version of this?

I was noticing a little more cohesion between him and Ulmer. Green and Patton seem to get competitive at times on their albums together.

Have only heard a song or two via links shared somewhere on these boards. It was his version of Rainy Night in Georgia that I really dug.

Mort Garson was a talented guy. I've got a couple of his albums. Going to reach for one before the weekend's out. Meanwhile, playing some John Patton. First up, Accent on the Blues With Blood Ulmer & Marvin Cabell - great, great album. Up next and now:

Big 3 = entertainment cartel. Wonderful.

10% ownership can be considered "significant"

Not sure. If you take the asset as a whole, then it naturally depreciates. Pieces of that whole could have periodic surges in value, but would they actually slow that depreciation or increase the overall value of the entire asset? I'm betting it would just slow depreciation overall, but that can be gamed as well. I'm still thinking they would counter any gains made on licensing pieces of that whole with the tax shelter provided by the overall depreciation. Those strategies can be intricate. I'm thinking there's immense value in licensing a certain percentage of that catalog, but not for reissues so much as advertising. Since there's a complete void of soul in a SPAC, they're not going to care which widget is going to win a gain, just that there's a gain to be had. What little I know about the Concord deal seems to be that they just use that asset deprecation as a tax shelter and that's all they want to do. This may be different, and likely will be, due to the aggressive profit motives of PE and SPAC entities.

Interesting Gioia piece. Looks like he has an MBA per one of the commenters. I didn't see where he talked about the tax benefits of declining assets, but that's a consideration of these deals and why they would hold them on the books. The current trend among PE firms was actually longer holds, but SPACs are different - just investment shells. So short term gains based on certain parts of that Universal catalog (licensing, etc.) could be countered by the tax shelter a declining asset gives them. Such a game.

I'm interested in buying if still available. Sending a pm

Cheers for the new website and the OOP discography section growing with info. That's going to be really nice if/when finished.

SPACs are completely soulless.

Agreed. I need to check this one out.

Disc 3. Super funk.

After Passing Ships (interesting album in that it had me wondering if the title referenced some other players that Hill was listening to. For example, the title track sounds a bit like Sun Ra, Plantation Bag seemed to have SGQ influence, and Noon Tide was Horace Silver-ish. Maybe it was just my brain making tenuous connections, but great album regardless). Anyway, Herbie doesn't show up on this one until the 3rd track as I think the opener was a trio (or quartet if both Rivers & Shorter were playing) while the second track is a solo.

Just started but had to put it aside for now. After the 3 I listened to this afternoon, my ranking would be the same as listening order: Change, Dance with Death, then Grass Roots in a distant 3rd. It's good, and has some great moments (Ponder shines in spots), but so different from what was on those first 2.

Man, I didn't recognize the name or those lyrics at first, but now I do and can confirm he still very much has an audience among the southeastern boating class. Radio play and all, usually mixed in with the beach music tunes.

Last Hill for the day:

More Hill. So different from the other albums I listened to. Idris on drums, Jimmy Ponder on guitar (who also appear on Turrentine's Common Touch, so there's some intersection between these sessions I didn't expect).

I've never dealt with udiscovermusic.com before. Have only heard issues with how they package LP shipments. No complaints about CDs. They're an arm of Universal Music, so definitely not fly-by-night.

There's a Haynes connection though.

And now, as stated, moving to Dance with Death