Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...
...show always has an impromptu atmosphere on the air and has a bad habit of running long, as Bing never holds a full rehearsal. If anything goes wrong, Bing's trigger-quick tongue is a certain safeguard. Recently, when Guest Jackie Cooper dropped his drummer's sticks during an act, Bing filled in with: "Hold the phone, there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes...
Mustered out of the 15th Jim Europe picked up a band, played at Manhattan Opera House, went on tour billed as Jim Europe and His Hell Fighters Band. In Boston, near the end of the tour, he had an altercation with Herbert Wright, broth' er of his drummer. Wright pulled a knife, slashed Europe's jugular vein. Few hours later, in a hospital bed, Jim Europe said: "Sissle, carry on as I have outlined," and died...
...made audiences fidget and giggle. The band was going through all the motions: the swart, longish-haired leader led away; the brasses, the saxophones, the clarinets made a great show of fingering and blowing, but the only sound from the stage was a rhythmic swish-swish from the trap-drummer, a froggy slap-slap from the bull-fiddler, a soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. This, explained Leader Raymond Scott, was silent music...
...last week was the smooth playing of Xylophonist Red Norvo as a Goodman guest. Equally pleasant this week should be the famed Goodman trio, which will get together for the first time in over two years. Besides Goodman, it includes Colored Pianist Teddy Wilson, who has his own band, Drummer Dave Tough, lately with Tommy Dorsey...