Latest Release
- 15 OCT 2023
- 7 Songs
- The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings · 1939
- 101 Forties Wartime Memories · 1992
- The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings · 1997
- Drummin' Man · 2005
- Jazz Drumming (1937 - 1938) · 1938
- Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (LPR) · 1953
- The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings · 1997
- The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings · 1997
- The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series · 2012
- The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings · 1997
Music Videos
- 2014
- 2018
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
Appears On
- Roy Eldridge
- Benny Goodman Trio & Benny Goodman Quartet
About Gene Krupa
Chicago-born jazz drummer Gene Krupa was a spectacular player with a loose-limbed, rambunctious style that played well to audiences. His full-kit playing technique influenced jazz and pop drummers for several generations, and he was most likely the first drummer to play kick drums and toms on a recording. His breakout gig was in the 1930s with Benny Goodman's highly popular big band. Krupa formed his own big band in the early '40s featuring Roy Eldridge and Anita O'Day, briefly served in Tommy Dorsey's band, and then re-formed his own band. Through the '40s and '50s, Krupa stayed relevant by allowing the swing-jazz rhythms he made popular to mutate into a more timely bop-influenced style. The '60s saw him slowing down, and by 1973 the era's most influential drummer had succumbed to leukemia.
- HOMETOWN
- Chicago, IL, United States
- BORN
- 15 January 1909
- GENRE
- Jazz