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...lecture and demonstration" on The Origins of Primitive Rhythms. But what a thousand Manhattan youngsters heard one day last week was a thumping, banging hullabaloo that set their feet atwitch, their elbows aquiver. Crouching like a witch doctor over a clattery battery of traps, perspiring, floppy-haired Gene Krupa beat out African war dances and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie bumps. Between beats Mr. Krupa, a scholarly thumper as well as one of the world's best drummers, explained which was which. The Museum had asked him to drum up its educational program. And he banged...
...write this column next year, show up at the Crimson (14 Plympton Street) on Wednesday, April 16, at 6 o'clock, when you'll get information on the competition. No requirements. All you have to do is like swing music. . . . Record of the week, any week, is Gene Krupa's Georgia on my Mind, which shows that Krupa's band is one of the country's top five when it wants to be. It's a tasteful arrangement of a really exceptional tune, and features a vocal by one Anita O'Day, whose singing was as pleasant a surprise tome...
...Down Beat musician's poll that Buddy rich is leading the drummers. It might seem strange to you that Krupa isn't way out in front. Well, he's not. As a matter of fact he's not even second. And the reason for this is the fact that Krupa has finally settled down to playing good drums with his band, and quit being a one-man circus. Buddy Rich, on the other hand, is playing flash, technique, and noise, all over the place. He's with Tommy Dorsey now, and he's ruining the Dorsey band just the same...
...seems that all a drummer has to do these days to get himself recognized is to knock out a few thirty-two bar choruses full of technique and nothing else. I realize that it has a terrific commercial appeal: witness what Krupa's pyrotechnics did for the Goodman band three years ago. But at the same time, Krupa had something else on the ball, an intangible rhythmic sense that makes all the difference in the world between a good drummer and a lousy one. It's all right to play flash now and then. I get a lot of kicks...
...with anyone but the Duke...Record of the week is Special Delivery Stomp by Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five (VICTOR). Featured is Billy Butterfield, whose muted trumpet beats Muggsy at his own game. Also heard are Johnny Guarneri, playing a harpsichord (!),, and Nick Fatool, whose drumming is reminiscent of Krupa at his best. Whole record jumps like hell. Reverse in Keepin' Myself For You, and makes good dancing...Count Basic cuts two sides of fast blues entitled The World Is Mad (OKEH), and stars the tenor sax of Lester Young, who plays some almost unbelievable jazz. Jo Jones...