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Bang the drummer slowly: Old-time radio listening, 31 January

Gene Krupa and His Orchestra Live at the Meadowbrook (NBC, 1940)“The butler did it” was already a cliché by the time Gene Krupa learned...
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Remember Gene Krupa...greatest drummer?

Q. Who was the best drummer in the big band era?A. There were some truly outstanding drummers... Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and Chic Webb are just...
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Who was the best drummer in the big band era?

Q. Who was the best drummer in the big band era?A. There were some truly outstanding drummers... Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and Chic Webb are just...
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Benny Goodman's classic 'Sing Sing Sing'

BENNY GOODMAN CD ALBUM COVER Related articles Top Ten Big Bands #2 Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee make music Here is a video from a 1957 TV...
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The Adirondack Jazz Orchestra in concert July 31, 2010

Big Band Concert News: The Adirondack Jazz Orchestra is a nineteen member group that musical director Matthew Pray calls “an expanded big...
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Gene Krupa king of the drummers?

GENE KRUPA unknown Related articles Sing Sing Sing... the greatest swing tune ever? Fletcher Henderson-the uncrowned king of swing The Swing Era...
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The Big Band Years returns to PBS this week

It is fund raising time on the PBS stations. This Saturday, June 5 at 9pm, the special "Big Band Years" will air on New York's WNET...
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Is this the one jazz album to own?

Here is a four CD Box set from Time Life...."100 Jazz Greats." A sampling of artists are: Cab Collaway, Sidney Bechet, Artie Shaw, Billie...
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Take the Woody Herman Quiz

Here is our Woody Herman Quiz. Woodrow Charles Thomas Herman was one of the most popular band leaders of the big band era. Let's test your...
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Gene Krupa the greatest drummer of the swing era?

Q. Who was the best drummer in the big band era? A. There were some truly outstanding drummers... Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and Chic Webb are just...
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