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Opening the festivities of Commencement week, Gene Krupa will bring his band here on Monday, June 16, for the gala Senior Spread, traditionally known as the Seniors' last filing at College life, it was announced last night by Thomas F. McGann '41, chairman of the Spread Committee...
America's youngest name band will play for the Eliot-Winthrop Dance on the 9th--Same Donahue, who for the past few years has had a chair in the reed sections of the Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, and Harry James bands. Needless to say, you can't go wrong on an alumnus of these orchestras. I've been an admirer of Donahue's style for a long time, and am glad to see that he's finally got a band together...
Gene Bertram Krupa, 32, is one of the Chicago boys who practiced jazz in the 19205, and one of the few who turned it to commercial success. His father, a Chicago alderman, sent him to a Catholic college to study for the priesthood, but within two years Gene Krupa was beating it out in Midwestern bands. He rode to fame with Benny Goodman's orchestra, battering frenetically and taking elaborate syncopated cadenzas. He devised three facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like...
...Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...
...Gene Krupa is a serious student of timpanology, an admirer of such virtuosi as Vishnudass Shirali, who has pounded and patted twelve drums for Hindu Dancer Uday Shan-Kar. Also Gene Krupa is, today, where popular musicians like to be when they settle down: in the money. He has his own band which, however conventional its brand of swing, brings in the jitterbugs. "I like to see them go crazy," says Gene Krupa. "I sure...