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 ...
It was a few months back when I took note of a black and white movie airing on the Turner Classic Movie channel that my parents were watching after supper. The title of the 1941 flick from RKO ...
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 ...
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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue Jazz Band, the American Music Repertory Ensemble and the Lab Jazz Band will pay tribute to drummers including Gene Krupa during an 8 p.m. Friday (Nov. 17) concert in ...
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.
For today’s music youngsters, those folks younger than 60 years of age, the drummer first recalled probably is Ringo Starr of The Beatles. However, for us oldsters, the vibes of the swing era best ...
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, ...