Teasing the Korean

Buddy Rich - Speak No Evil - RCA Badass!!!!!

David Axelrod - Songs of Experience - Capitol (lime green label with purple logo).

I hear you regarding iTunes. But is it specified on each CD that I have to destroy all copies if I unload the original? I am simply asking where this is stated and under whose jurisdiction does it fall?

This issue is being brought up on the eve of the Beatles' first recordings approaching the 50 year mark. Coincidence?

Well, it would be up to the RIAA or some mega corporation to press charges and even bring it to that level. I'm guessing that the RIAA frowns on this practice but haven't tried anything. That recent case which made the news involved alleged copies that were allegedly placed on a common drive, IIRC.

No one here seems to be aware of any law requiring a consumer to destroy copies after he/she has sold the original.

You can own a copy of it legally if no one ever bothered to pass a law against it. Is anyone aware of such a law? Assuming one exists, is anyone aware of a record company pressing charges against someone for this practice?

If you made a legal copy when you owned it legally, I see no conflict. Again - aside from principle - is anyone aware of a legal case along these lines?

I understand the concept, but where exactly is this specified? Is there any precedent of someone getting busted for keeping a cd-r of something they unloaded?? What if the original got scratched and I pitched it? I have to throw away the backup too? What's the sense in backing it up?

Where have you heard this? Granted, the RIAA will try anything if the idea pops into their heads. AFAIK, making a copy of something you legally own is your right if it's for your own use. If you try to sell the original later, that's your business. Is there a legal precedent I'm not aware of?

My favorite Kenton stuff involves either Pete Rugulo or Johnny Richards as arranger. "Cuban Fire" from 1956 is a terrific album. Slightly after your time frame, but both very worthwhile, are "West Side Story" and "Adventures in Time." (both very early 1960s). All of these were written and/or arranged by Johnny Richards. The Rugolo era is more 1940s and predates the LP era, AFAIK. That stuff you'd have to find on compilations.

would HAVE said.

Write to Obama. Word has it that he will address this issue when he's nominated.

Gordon Parks/Richard Hazard - Shaft's Big Score - MGM with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Pass.

Clementine had too much to drink. I hope some big bad jazzman doesn't try to take advantage of her in this condition.

How did you pick up on that little detail and miss the homoerotic encounter between Kirk and Spock (from the same episode)?!?!?

Bill Evans Quintet - Interplay - Riverside stereo (OJC reissue). Nice to here him leading something other than a trio for a change.

Haven't read that but I do have an anthology produced in the 1960s called "Kitsch: The Art of Bad Taste," compiled from essays by a bunch of Euro academics. It is VERY dated but very enjoyable nonetheless.

Check out Skip Martin's "Mike Hammer" album on RCA, if you haven't already.

A lot of the traditional academic applications of the term "kitsch" no longer apply because of post-modernism, the no-brow movement, etc. Kitsch is often used these days to describe things that are perceived to be "beneath" the abilities of an artist, such as "The album's serious mood is broken by the inclusion of a kitschy disco number..." etc. But - if we're talking about how the term was used originally - it would mean the opposite, such as attempting, say, a serious, extended work that may (or may not) be beyond the abilities of an artist. Again, the old definitions are pretty much out the window these days.

that's one of my fav's, ttk. Thank you. Les Baxter is very underappreciated.

Quincy Jones - Mellow Madness - A&M Including the amazing "Beautiful Black Girl."

Horace Silver - You Gotta Take a Little Love - Blue Note (blue & white label, stereo). Mono button on the amplifier engaged for improved sound.

The Great Les Baxter - Selections from South Pacific - Capitol (rainbow label, stereo).

NO MORE BONK BONK!