In the interests of full disclosure, I spent an extended period with Gene Krupa as an adolescent. Relatives were friends of Krupa's. All the nice things Elizabeth J. Rosenthal says about Krupa as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is hardly a role in the jazz industry that Bruce Klauber has not played. He’s been a singer, a drummer, a publicist and a concert producer. He’s been a journalist for Jazz Times and Down Beat ...

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 ...

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, ...