Word: krupa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was none of the improvised Dixieland so familiar to festivals; nor were there many personal appearances by such great solo showmen as "Satchmo" Armstrong or Gene Krupa. Instead, classics-minded young jazzmen concentrated on the brassy new progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles, and played their well-rehearsed arrangements with the cool elegance of conservatory students. Even Stan Kenton's 18-piece (including bongo drums) orchestra had its own smooth brand of progressive beat. But the real stars of the festival were the small, intimate combos that played jazz with a new maturity and subtlety...
Married. Gene Krupa, aging (50) jazz drummer, famed for his wide, colorful range of techniques and his difficulties with the law over marijuana matters; and Patricia Bowler, 25, a secretary from Springfield, Mass.; he for the second time (the first Mrs. Krupa died in 1955), she for the first; in Yonkers...
Died. Brother Matthew, 48, frail, balding lay brother of the Roman Catholic Servite order, famed, until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...
Timex All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.)." Just like the three previous all-star jam sessions. A real hep crew-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa-blasting out cool tunes...
...kinds of noise, from the river boat of Louis Armstrong to the leaky boat of Les Brown and his Band of Renown; among those loitering between the extremes: Lionel Hampton, Hoagy Carmichael, Gene Krupa, Bob Crosby...