Word: krupa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examples, let's take two records by one band and see which is what and why. About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa...
...bands most guilty of this are the white bands. Goodman, Krupa, Barnet, Dorsey, and others have all suffered from this failing. The first two seem to be getting away from...
Listen to Gene Krupa's new record of "Hodge-Podge" and you'll hear not only "relaxed" swing, but soles of a sort that are going to make Gene's band one of the top white bands before the year is over. It's easy-flowing, the rhythm "takes it time." As a result, the soles can be slow, and well phrased. It's not easy--it took Gene's bunch this long to learn...
Nine years ago a band leader named Ben Pollack was drawing hot music's purists to Chicago's Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...called Krupa plays the drums like thunder...