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 ...

Gene Krupa "stole Benny [Goodman]'s thunder," says Kennith Kimery, executive producer of the SMithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. "In the end that cost him his job." Hugh Talman, NMAH, SI When I ...

Drum Workshop brings back to life the most historic brand in drum set history with this warmly re-imagined Radio King outfit ...

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 ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Krupa's birthday today! Gene Krupa was easily one of the most colorful personalities of the big band era. Despite his outrageous stage persona, Krupa was a serious ...

In the summer of 1922 a dark, brush-headed trap drummer named Gene Bertram Krupa, not long out of a Catholic college, heard Drummer Ben Pollack’s band play in a Chicago hotspot. What struck him most ...

In the interests of full disclosure, I spent an extended period with Gene Krupa as an adolescent. Relatives were friends of Krupa's. All the nice things Elizabeth J. Rosenthal says about Krupa as a ...

For today’s music youngsters, those folks younger than 60 years of age, the drummer first recalled probably is Ringo Starr of The Beatles. However, for us oldsters, the vibes of the swing era best ...

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, ...