DRUMS WEEK 2025: Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. The Benny ...
In the interests of full disclosure, I spent an extended period with Gene Krupa as an adolescent. Relatives were friends of Krupa's. All the nice things Elizabeth J. Rosenthal says about Krupa as a ...
Without Gene Krupa, our musical world might look and sound very different today. Just ask Arthor Von Blomberg, who is bringing "The Gene Krupa Story" to the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre for two shows on ...
Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. At one time every drummer in ...
Gene Krupa "stole Benny [Goodman]'s thunder," says Kennith Kimery, executive producer of the SMithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. "In the end that cost him his job." Hugh Talman, NMAH, SI When I ...
Big Noise From Winnetka ; Caravan.; Drum Boogie; Honeysuckle Rose; Moonlight in Vermont;The Shadow of Your Smile;Take the ‘A’ Train ; Alligator Crawl, featuring Dill Jones I recall reading somewhere ...
The Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of “KRUPA” by its musical director, Fouad Fakhouri, at 8 p.m. Saturday Jan. 29 at the Temple Theatre, 201 N. Washington, Saginaw.
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. John Trentacosta is thrilled to sit behind the drums and bring you the music of Gene Krupa. But he’s not looking ...
Before Keith Moon, before John Bonham, before Ringo Starr, before any other rock drummer you can think of, there was Gene Krupa. The original wild man of the drums, Krupa was known for his propulsive ...
Slingerland Drums, the esteemed American percussion company originally founded in 2012, and deployed by such luminaires as Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Neal Peart - whose chrome kit, sported by the Rush ...
The American Museum of Natural History called it a “lecture and demonstration” on The Origins of Primitive Rhythms. But what a thousand Manhattan youngsters heard one day last week was a thumping, ...