Gene Krupa

His own private Gene Krupa

The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

GENERAL/INDUSTRY: Hollywood's Professional Drum Shop

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

The Professional Drum Shop was founded in 1959 by Bob Yeager with Chuck Molinari in an effort to provide the professional drummer with a place to get needed equipment repairs and shopping convenience. Yeager had been repairing fellow drummers equipment on the road for years. With their encouragement and financial support, he decided the time was right to get off the road and open the "Shop...

Swing Is Here - Small Band Swing 1935 - 1939

Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008

. The mid-1930s were golden years for jazz. The music on this CD is quite exciting but much of it is issued here in incomplete fashion. There are all four titles from Gene Krupa's Swing Band (a superb pickup group with trumpeter Roy Eldridge, clarinetist Benny Goodman and Chu Berry on tenor in additon to two Helen Ward vocals) but just three numbers from a session led by arranger Gene Gifford with...

OBITUARY: Danny Davis Founder of the Nashville Brass Dies

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008

Founder of the Nashville Brass Danny Davis, 83, a bandleader and record producer who founded the Nashville Brass, died Thursday at a Nashville hospital after suffering a heart attack. A resident of Nashville, Davis began his music career as a trumpeter, playing in the brass sections of bands led by Les Brown, Gene Krupa and others in the 1940s...

Bandleader Davis Dead At 83

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008

Bandleader DANNY DAVIS has died following a cardiac arrest at a Nashville, Tennessee hospital. He was 83.The leader of The Nashville Brass, Davis was a beloved country music icon, who claimed the Country Music Association's Instrumental Group of The Year award from 1969 to 1974.And his album The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds earned the bandleader a Best Country Instrumental...

BANDLEADER DAVIS DEAD AT 83

PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008

Bandleader DANNY DAVIS has died following a cardiac arrest at a Nashville, Tennessee hospital. He was 83. The leader of The Nashville Brass, Davis was a beloved country music icon, who claimed the Country Music Association’s Instrumental Group of The Year award from 1969 to 1974. And his album The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More [...]

Band leader Danny Davis died at 83

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008

Danny Davis, a Grammy-winning band leader and record producer who blended swing music with a country style, died Thursday, his publicist said. He was 83.

Friday Night Jazz: Gerry Mulligan II

The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008

About 10 years ago, while window shopping in Sag Harbor (the least offensive of the Hamptons), I hear this fabulous music wafting out the door of a small shop. Turns out it was Gerry Mulligan's CD, Paraiso-Jazz Brazil. It was a real eye opener: This clean, cool recording of lovely Latin melodies, overlaid with a delightfully dry, reedy saxophone that infused everything with a sophisticated flavor....

'Geezer' drums up respect

ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008

I recall the first time hearing the fine stick work of accomplished drummer Chris Nemeth at one of the city functions where the Chris St. Louis band was performing many years ago. I knew at the time that I was hearing a highly skilled technician on the skins and looked forward to future sightings of [...]

GENERAL/INDUSTRY: Birdland - The Jazz Corner of the World

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

The jazz corner of the world Recently, I overheard the sounds of the singing quartet, Manhattan Transfer, coming from the stereo in my son's room. The group had added lyrics to Joe Zawinul's extraordinary instrumental "Birdland," conjuring some warm memories of the jazz club that had once been called "The Jazz Corner of the World...

Berrimilla Down Under Mars Status Report 26 April 2008

Space Ref (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008

We're down to 2 hour night watches - not really survival mode but an acknowledgement that 3 hours of concentration at night is too hard to sustain. Hallucination, green monkeys, out of focus compass readings sending the remaining neuron into a dozy spin.

Tapes 'n Tapes earns hype

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008

It's impossible to imagine that on Tuesday night, between 8:30 and 11, anyone could have averted his gaze from the Democratic primary battle in Philly.

Might As Well Go Down Swinging

Nobody's Friend (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008

When you need to mainline JOY because kicking the gong around just doesn't do it any more... Poke the little red button . Benny Goodman at the Carnegie Hall, 1938, "Sing Sing Sing" with Gene Krupa, Harry James, Jess Stacey...

Carmen Leggio Quartet: Carmen Leggio Quartet

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008

New York tenor saxophonist Carmen Leggio has performed with the likes of Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman and Maynard Ferguson. This self-titled quartet recording finds the veteran reedman swinging hard on eleven standards done in a no-nonsense, straight-ahead manner. Leggio is joined by guitar great Joe Cohn, bassist Rick Petrone and drummer Joe Corsello...

Borders(R) to Publish Tribute to Jazz Legend Lionel Hampton in 'Flying Home'

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008

'Flying Home' Book and CD Release Available Exclusively at Borders Nationwide ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Borders released its latest exclusive title, "Flying Home: Lionel Hampton Celebrating 100 Years of Good Vibes" written by Stanley Crouch with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis. "Flying Home" is a photo retrospective of jazz pioneer Hampton's life, musical talents, famous performances...