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...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...
...Nichols album is astonishly good. A lot of people, including myself, have decried Nichols in comparison with his fellow-cornetist, Bix Beiderbecke, but in the company of such stars as Goodman, Teagarden, Krupa, etc., he plays above himself. There's still a lot of repression and self-consciousness, but there's also a good beat and a few good ideas. I wouldn't dare play Teschemacher's "China Boy" afterward, but the album is full of good, ripe jazz...
...really a case of misnomer, for most jazz-lovers actually think of the Chicagoans and their influence when they speak of the Chicago style. Bud Freeman, not Chicago style is the father of the jam session tenor. Then, too, many of the original Chicagoans have left the fold. Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, who still gives us a faint aroma of Teschmaker, Muggsy Spanier, and countless others are fronting commercial or semi-commercial bands...
Shep Fields fills the position this year that Gene Krupa occupied at last year's spread, and it is reported that Field's new style is an experiment in bridging the gap betweens the extremes of sweet and swing. It is, however, definitely not a hybrid, but boasts a manner and instrumentation different from any other current orchestra...