Word: krupa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gene Krupa got the greatest ovation in the history of Broadway's Paramount Theater - on his first theater date since he was paroled from San Quentin last summer on a narcotics charge. He was sitting at the drums with Tommy Dorsey's band when it rose in the dark out of the pit. There had been no announcement that he was back. Hepcats in the audience saw him before the lights went up. They started murmuring. The opening number was Gettin' Sentimental Over You. Four thousand enthusiasts shouted and beat their hands off. Drummer Krupa wept...
...denies that there was a distinctly psychopathic strain in the old Austin High School crowd, which included Jimmy and Rich MacUartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Frank Teschemacher, and allied members such as Dave Hough, Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa, Joe Sullivan, Muggsy Spanier, and Mezz Mezzrow. For instance, Tesch married a gal who used to pour nothing but straight gin on her corn flakes...
...first recording session on which a full set of drums was used. It happened in Chicago at the old Okeh studios, and the percussionist who broke away from the hard and fast rule of showing up with only a snare drum, cymbal, woodblock, and cowbell was Eugene Krupa, fresh out of school and still on Camels...
...more nervous heroes of hot jazz, Gene Krupa, went to California's San Quentin Prison this week to serve a sentence of one to six years. Drummer Krupa had been sentenced on two counts. The first was a felony: employing a minor, one John Pateakos, to transport narcotics. The second and lesser count was a misdemeanor: possession of the drug marijuana, a violation which, if it could be universally detected, would land a great many jazz musicians behind prison bars. It is no secret that some of the finest flights of American syncopation, like some of the finest products...
Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin...