Word: krupa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five" (Satchmo, Clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Trombonist Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr on the banjo and second wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on the piano) to make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without musically admitting his debt...
...making a comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises, and biggest successes...
...luxury that people were unwilling to pay for. In empty nightclubs and ballrooms their tricky arrangements were being heard mostly by the waiters, who were appreciative but unprofitable listeners. In the past eight weeks, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Les Brown and Jack Teagarden decided to disband. Gene Krupa and Jimmy Dorsey cut salaries. This week Woody Herman gave...
...piano lessons as a kid, was only 17 when he became Ted Fio Rito's tricky pianist in 1927. For the next ten years, he mingled with the great and near-great of Chicago's golden days of popular music, playing or arranging for Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman...
...losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where the band plays Friday nights. Said he last week: "The electric drum...