Search results for "Gene Krupa"

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (1958) (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The first thing one notices in comparing this remake with Krupa's 1947 original is the much-improved sound. Stereo! W...

Gene Krupa with Roy Eldridge & Anita O'Day: Let Me Off Uptown (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

After leaving Benny Goodman to front his own band, drummer Gene Krupa adopted Goodman's policy of circumscribed racia...

Gene Krupa & Roy Eldridge: Rockin' Chair (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

In the 1950s, Eldridge rerecorded this song under his own name with a small combo, but this is the original masterpie...

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Gerry Mulligan was 19 when jazz superstar Gene Krupa waxed the lanky kid arranger's "Disc Jockey Jump." Like many pan...

Gene Krupa: How High the Moon (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

By mid-1946, when Gene Krupa recorded 19-year-old arranger Gerry Mulligan's arrangement of "How High the Moon," the 1...

Gene Krupa: Lover (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

With the Swing Era fading fast, its star drummer demonstrates how far both this song and big bands had come. In 1933,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Gene Krupa: Massachusetts (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Many state tributes are about a native who, torn from home, longs to return. Of these, the toughest to sing is "Massa...

Hoagy Carmichael & Bix Beiderbecke: Barnacle Bill the Sailor (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Records hardly get stranger than this. An integrated, all-star cast convenes to record a tune most of them thought wa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Anita O'Day: Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

For a 60-mile stretch along North Carolina's southwest border, going a little bit south puts you in Georgia. Anit...

Benny Goodman: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

While his inter-personal skills left much to be desired, Benny Goodman cared about his band and was always interested...

Benny Goodman Quartet: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 12, 09

If you just heard the record, you might think this performance was taped surreptitiously at some back room jam sessio...

Benny Goodman (featuring Billie Holiday): Riffin' the Scotch (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

This is Holiday’s recording debut at the age of 18. Record producer John Hammond had taken Benny Goodman, Red Norvo a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Chicago Rhythm Kings: There’ll Be Some Changes Made (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

There is a good bit of sophistication here, albeit carved somewhat rudely . . . as was intended. The rhythmic drive ...

Benny Goodman: King Porter Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Five years after Jelly Roll Morton recorded his tribute to pianist Porter King, bandleader Fletcher Henderson adopted...

Jack Teagarden: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Swing Era and Big Band Era are not necessarily synonymous. Medium-sized groups produced much of the Swing Era's fines...

Benny Goodman: Avalon (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

    Benny Goodman Photo by Herb Snitzer In Hollywood's sappy biopic The Benny Goodman Story...

Benny Goodman: Moonglow (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

B.G.'s come-hither clarinet and Hamp's voluptuous vibes make "Moonglow" one of jazz's most romantic encounters. The U...

Red Norvo: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

In his day, Red Norvo recorded and gigged with everyone -- Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Charles Min...

Mildred Bailey: Junk Man (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

Mildred Bailey doesn't make her entrance until halfway through this track, but it's worth the wait, with Benny Goodma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Benny Goodman: Peckin' (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 18, 08

Harry James got his first big break when he joined the Benny Goodman organization in January 1937. Benny's brother Ha...

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