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Gene Krupa Greatest Hits - Gene Krupa | Album | AllMusic. AllMusic Rating. User Rating (0) Your Rating. STREAM OR BUY: Genre. Jazz. Discography Timeline. See Full Discography. Live: Americas Favorite Drummer (1939) The Drum Battle (1952) Sing, Sing, Sing (1954) Drummer Man (1956) Krupa and Rich (1956) Big Noise from Winnetka (1959)
- Gene Krupa’s Formative Years
- Benny Goodman
- Gene Krupa’s Band
- Gene Krupa in The 40s and 50s
- The Epic Drum Battles
Eugene Bertram Krupa was born in Chicago’s impoverished South Side in 1909 into a family of Polish immigrants. The youngest of nine children, he was first drawn to jazz when helping out in his brother’s music store when he was about ten years old. He briefly flirted with playing the alto sax, but felt a greater affinity for the drums. By the age of...
Both these early performances showed Gene Krupa in a restrained mood but as recording techniques improved, he could play with more volume and intensity. His big breakthrough was joining the Benny Goodman band in 1934. By then, Krupa’s style had evolved dramatically; it swung more aggressively and flowed in a 4/4 time rather than the jaunty 2/4 mete...
With Gene Krupa’s fame beginning to eclipse Goodman’s, the clarinetist, who purportedly didn’t like sharing the limelight with his drummer, attempted to tone down his sticks man’s flamboyance and limit his crowd-pleasing solos. Eventually, a frustrated Krupa left to form his own band. Its first significant recording was 1938’s “Jungle Madness,” a c...
Although he would find it hard shaking off the “junkie” image that the American tabloid press gave him, Gene Krupa got his career back on track thanks to the jazz impresario Norman Granz, who featured the drummer at his groundbreaking Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts, which began in 1944. Later, in the 1950s, Krupa’s career flourished at Granz’s C...
No introduction to the best Gene Krupa songs would be complete without mentioning some sensational tracks that resulted from his collaborations with fellow drum maven, Buddy Rich. Krupa’s first album to feature the New York tub thumper was The Drum Battle, his debut LP for music mogul Norman Granz’s Clef label in 1952. It was recorded live at Carne...
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Listen to Gene Krupa Greatest Hits on Spotify. Gene Krupa · Compilation · 2014 · 14 songs.
Listen to Gene Krupa Greatest Hits by Gene Krupa on Deezer. All by Myself, Bugle Call Rag, Drum Boogie...
- October 21, 2014
21 ott 2014 · Gene Krupa Greatest Hits by Gene Krupa on Apple Music. JAZZ · 2014. Preview. 1. All by Myself. 2:41. Bugle Call Rag. 3:10. Drum Boogie. 3:06. 4. Ellington Medley. 7:59. 5. How High the Moon. 3:16. 6. I'll Never Be the Same. 3:40. 7. Indiana. 3:00. 8. It's up to You. 2:41. 9. King Porter Stomp. 2:58. 10. The Man I Love. 4:14. 11. Opus One. 2:54. 12.
Gene Krupa Greatest Hits. Album • 2014. 14 songs • 49 minutes. All by Myself. 2.4K plays. 2:42. Bugle Call Rag. 4.3K plays. 3:11. Drum Boogie. 370K plays. 3:07. 4. Ellington Medley. 1.3K...
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