Word: krupa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benny Goodman Trio (Columbia LP). The King of Swing gets together for the first time in 13 years with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa to help out his old arranger, ailing Fletcher Henderson. The ensemble sounds surprisingly spry, playing such old favorites as Body and Soul, After You've Gone, Honeysuckle Rose...
...Victor; 10 LP singles). The third installment of a big selection of vintage jazz, reissued on LP, often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
...Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed and gibbering, never stopped the beat...
...thing," says Benny, "it would take a little digging to find a band like that today. To get Harry James you'd have to call him from Hollywood. Gene Krupa used to make our tops-$165 a week. Now he has his own band. Remember Gordon Griffin, our third trumpet man? . . . We used to throw him a bone once in a while; now he's probably making $600 a week. Another thing: in those days jazz was not a big business like it is today. You never really had a manager in those days. Today you have...
...take a ride too. Phil Harris cut in with Muskrat Ramble and Walk with a Wiggle, planned also to make his next album with a New Orleans beat. Tommy Dorsey hastily reassembled his old Clambake Seven to record Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and Tiger Rag. Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong and the New Orleans...