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 ...

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.

For today’s music youngsters, those folks younger than 60 years of age, the drummer first recalled probably is Ringo Starr of The Beatles. However, for us oldsters, the vibes of the swing era best ...

Gene Krupa’s flailing arms and floppy hair were undeniable emblems of the Big Band Era. As the first drummer to explore the uses of the full drum kit in jazz (and insist that it be miked at full ...

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, ...

Gene Krupa's All Stars. side 1: Swing Is Here; side 2: I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music (Blue Ace 231). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1936 and released on Victor 25276. Blue Ace was a ...