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{{Infobox musical artist| Name = Gene Krupa| Img = Gene Krupa.jpg| Img_capt = Gene Krupa| Img_size = 200| Landscape =| Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| Birth_name = Gene Krupa| Alias =| Born = | Died = | Origin = Chicago, Illinois| Voice_type =| Genre = [Swing music
Dixieland
Big band music| Years_active =| Label =| Associated_acts = [Eddie Condon, [1909 –
October 16,
1973) was a famous and influentialUnited States jazz and big band drummer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
Biography
Eugene Bertram Krupa was born to
Poles parents in Chicago, Illinois. He began playing professionally in the mid 1920s with bands in Wisconsin. He broke into the Chicago scene in
1927, when he was picked by
Music Corporation of America to become a member of Thelma Terry and Her Playboys, the first notable American jazz band (outside of all-girl bands) to be led by a female musician. The Playboys were the house band at
The Golden Pumpkin nightclub in Chicago and also toured extensively throughout the eastern and central United States.
Krupa made his first recordings in 1927, with a band under the leadership of banjoist
Eddie Condon and "fixer" (and sometime singer, who did not appear on the records), Red McKenzie: these sides are now recognised as the first, and definitive, examples of white "Chicago Style" jazz. The numbers recorded at that session were: 'China Boy', 'Sugar', 'Nobody's Sweetheart' and 'Liza'. The McKenzie - Condon sides are also notable for being the first records to feature a full drum kit. Eddie Condon describes what happened in the Okeh studio on that day (in 'We Called It Music' - pub: Peter Davis, 1948):
{{cquote].
In
1929 he moved to New York City and worked with the band of
Red Nichols. In
1934 he joined Benny Goodman's band, where his featured drum work — especially on the hit
Sing, Sing, Sing — made him a national
celebrity. In
1938, after a public fight with Goodman at the Earl Theater in Philadelphia, he left Goodman to launch his own band and had several hits with singer Anita O'Day and trumpeter
Roy Eldridge. Krupa made a memorable cameo appearance in the 1941 film
Ball of Fire, in which he and his band performed an extended version of the hit
Drum Boogie.
In
1943, Krupa was arrested for possession of
Cannabis (drug) and was given a brief jail term. After his release, Krupa reorganized his band with a big string section, featuring Charlie Ventura on sax. It was one of the largest dance bands of the era, sometimes containing up to forty musicians. He gradually cut down the size of the band in the late
1940s, and from
1951 on led a trio or quartet, often featuring the multi-instrumentalist Eddie Shu on tenor sax, clarinet and harmonica. He appeared regularly with the
Jazz At the Philharmonic shows.
Krupa largely went into retirement in the late 1960s, although he occasionally played in public until shortly before his death from
leukemia in
Yonkers, New York. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in
Calumet City, Illinois.
Legacy
Many consider Krupa to be one of the most influential drummers of the 20th century, particularly with regard to the development of the drum kit.
Krupa's main influence began in 1935 when he emerged a star with Benny Goodman's Orchestra, prominently featuring Slingerland drums. But he had already made history in 1927 as the first kit drummer ever to record using a bass drum pedal. His drum method was published in 1938 and immediately became the standard text.
At Krupa's urging, Slingerland developed tom-toms with tuneable top and bottom heads, which immediately became important elements of virtually every drummer's set-up. Krupa also developed and popularised many of the cymbal techniques that became standards. His collaboration with
Armand Zildjian of the
Avedis Zildjian Company developed the hi-hat stand and standardized the names and uses of the
ride cymbal, the crash cymbal, the splash cymbal, the pang cymbal and the swish cymbal.
Krupa has been cited as an influence by 1960s rock drummers such as Ian Paice of Deep Purple,
Keith Moon of
The Who,
John Bonham of
Led Zeppelin, Peter Criss of
Kiss (band) (to whom Krupa gave personal lessons), Neil Peart of
Rush (band), and
Paul Whaley of
Blue Cheer. The British techno-rock group Apollo 440 had a hit with "Krupa (song)" which featured the sampled phrase from the movie
Taxi Driver; "Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style." The song itself is an electronic dance track written in the style of Gene Krupa, giving the impression of Krupa's style in the form of a 1990s dance track, blending his musical idioms with a modern song using samples and synthesised basslines.
Krupa's popularity was acknowledged in the 1946
Warner Bros. cartoon,
Book Revue, in which a
Rotoscoping Krupa's dynamic drumming plays a prominent role in an impromptu jam session.
Sal Mineo starred as Krupa in the Columbia Pictures movie
The Gene Krupa Story (
1959 in film).
References
- Twomey, John. Jazzsight Profiles: Gene Krupa: Let Me Off Uptown. October, 2003.
http://www.jazzsight.com/jazzsightprofiles.html
External links
- http://www.gkrp.net The Gene Krupa Reference Page
- http://www.drummerman.net/biography.html
- http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Gene_Krupa.html
- http://drummingstyles.com/Genres/Jazz/Big-Band/index.html The Famous Gene Krupa Sing Sing Sing Groove]
{{Infobox musical artist| Name = Gene Krupa| Img = Gene Krupa.jpg| Img_capt = Gene Krupa| Img_size = 200| Landscape =| Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| Birth_name = Gene Krupa| Alias =| Born = | Died = | Origin =
Chicago, Illinois| Voice_type =| Genre = [Swing musicDixieland
Big band music| Years_active =| Label =| Associated_acts = [Eddie Condon, [1909 – October 16, 1973) was a famous and influential
United States jazz and
big band drummer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
Biography
Eugene Bertram Krupa was born to
Poles parents in
Chicago, Illinois. He began playing professionally in the mid 1920s with bands in
Wisconsin. He broke into the Chicago scene in 1927, when he was picked by
Music Corporation of America to become a member of Thelma Terry and Her Playboys, the first notable American jazz band (outside of all-girl bands) to be led by a female musician. The Playboys were the house band at
The Golden Pumpkin nightclub in Chicago and also toured extensively throughout the eastern and central United States.
Krupa made his first recordings in 1927, with a band under the leadership of banjoist Eddie Condon and "fixer" (and sometime singer, who did not appear on the records),
Red McKenzie: these sides are now recognised as the first, and definitive, examples of white "Chicago Style" jazz. The numbers recorded at that session were: 'China Boy', 'Sugar', 'Nobody's Sweetheart' and 'Liza'. The McKenzie - Condon sides are also notable for being the first records to feature a full drum kit. Eddie Condon describes what happened in the Okeh studio on that day (in 'We Called It Music' - pub: Peter Davis, 1948):
{{cquote].
In 1929 he moved to
New York City and worked with the band of
Red Nichols. In
1934 he joined Benny Goodman's band, where his featured drum work — especially on the hit
Sing, Sing, Sing — made him a national
celebrity. In
1938, after a public fight with Goodman at the Earl Theater in Philadelphia, he left Goodman to launch his own band and had several hits with singer Anita O'Day and
trumpeter Roy Eldridge. Krupa made a memorable cameo appearance in the 1941 film
Ball of Fire, in which he and his band performed an extended version of the hit
Drum Boogie.
In 1943, Krupa was arrested for possession of Cannabis (drug) and was given a brief jail term. After his release, Krupa reorganized his band with a big string section, featuring
Charlie Ventura on sax. It was one of the largest dance bands of the era, sometimes containing up to forty musicians. He gradually cut down the size of the band in the late
1940s, and from
1951 on led a trio or quartet, often featuring the multi-instrumentalist Eddie Shu on tenor sax, clarinet and harmonica. He appeared regularly with the
Jazz At the Philharmonic shows.
Krupa largely went into retirement in the late 1960s, although he occasionally played in public until shortly before his death from leukemia in Yonkers, New York. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Calumet City, Illinois.
Legacy
Many consider Krupa to be one of the most influential drummers of the 20th century, particularly with regard to the development of the drum kit.
Krupa's main influence began in 1935 when he emerged a star with Benny Goodman's Orchestra, prominently featuring
Slingerland drums. But he had already made history in 1927 as the first kit drummer ever to record using a
bass drum pedal. His drum method was published in 1938 and immediately became the standard text.
At Krupa's urging, Slingerland developed tom-toms with tuneable top and bottom heads, which immediately became important elements of virtually every drummer's set-up. Krupa also developed and popularised many of the
cymbal techniques that became standards. His collaboration with Armand Zildjian of the
Avedis Zildjian Company developed the
hi-hat stand and standardized the names and uses of the
ride cymbal, the crash cymbal, the splash cymbal, the pang cymbal and the
swish cymbal.
Krupa has been cited as an influence by 1960s rock drummers such as Ian Paice of Deep Purple,
Keith Moon of
The Who,
John Bonham of
Led Zeppelin, Peter Criss of Kiss (band) (to whom Krupa gave personal lessons), Neil Peart of
Rush (band), and
Paul Whaley of
Blue Cheer. The British techno-rock group
Apollo 440 had a hit with "Krupa (song)" which featured the sampled phrase from the movie
Taxi Driver; "Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style." The song itself is an electronic dance track written in the style of Gene Krupa, giving the impression of Krupa's style in the form of a 1990s dance track, blending his musical idioms with a modern song using samples and synthesised basslines.
Krupa's popularity was acknowledged in the 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon,
Book Revue, in which a
Rotoscoping Krupa's dynamic drumming plays a prominent role in an impromptu jam session.
Sal Mineo starred as Krupa in the Columbia Pictures movie
The Gene Krupa Story (
1959 in film).
References
- Twomey, John. Jazzsight Profiles: Gene Krupa: Let Me Off Uptown. October, 2003.
http://www.jazzsight.com/jazzsightprofiles.html
External links
- http://www.gkrp.net The Gene Krupa Reference Page
- http://www.drummerman.net/biography.html
- http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Gene_Krupa.html
- http://drummingstyles.com/Genres/Jazz/Big-Band/index.html The Famous Gene Krupa Sing Sing Sing Groove]
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Gene Krupa and his orchestra performing the classic Drum Boogie, from the excelent movie "Ball of Fire" (1941) www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373
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Gene Krupa formed his own first rate band after a tiff with Benny Goodman early in 1938 and ran it for five years until he was jailed on a narcotics charge.... ... Sign up and ...
