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 ...

THE word for “The Gene Krupa Story" is okay no less and certainly no more. Columbia's film biography of the king of hot jazz drummers arrived yesterday at the Forum with Sal Mineo in the title role, ...

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 ...

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.

Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2006 with 350 to follow. Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his ...

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 and Cozy Cole, those grand old men of drums (Krupa is forty-five, Cole a year younger), have just opened a school of drumming in a second-floor walkup on West Fifty-fourth Street, and we ...