DRUMS WEEK 2025: Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. The Benny ...

Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. At one time every drummer in ...

THE word for “The Gene Krupa Story" is okay no less and certainly no more. Columbia's film biography of the king of hot jazz drummers arrived yesterday at the Forum with Sal Mineo in the title role, ...

The Master of Drums Elizabeth J Rosenthal 320 Pages ISBN: 978-0-8065-4320 Kensington Publishing Company 2025 In the interests of full disclosure, I spent an extended period with Gene Krupa as an ...

Gene Krupa and Cozy Cole, those grand old men of drums (Krupa is forty-five, Cole a year younger), have just opened a school of drumming in a second-floor walkup on West Fifty-fourth Street, and we ...

The American Museum of Natural History called it a “lecture and demonstration” on The Origins of Primitive Rhythms. But what a thousand Manhattan youngsters heard one day last week was a thumping, ...

RED HOOK, N.Y. — Red Hook’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7765 will present a multi-media big band swing show, “The Gene Krupa Story,” on Saturday, Oct. 1, in the new Red Hook High School Auditorium.

Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2006 with 350 to follow. Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his ...

O'Day first became known in 1941 when she joined Gene Krupa's band. Later, she later sang with Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman and many other small groups. Originally broadcast in 1987. Let's continue our ...

“The more I practise, the luckier I get”, a famous golfer is reported to have said. I, and two of my friends, were introduced to the idea of practice at the age of thirteen. We’d gone to see the ...