[Dixielandjazz] Re: Drum article

Mike Durham mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 30 14:23:49 PST 2004


>Kurt wrote (re Krupa):
> >
> > My favorite section from the Jeff Fitzgerald (Genius) article is, "Who 
>can
> > say when the art of drumming began? I can, for one. For my money, it 
>began
> > at Carnegie Hall in 1938, when Gene Krupa snapped his nervous bandmates 
>out
> > of their stage fright with a cacophonous drum break and helped usher 
>jazz
> > into a new era of respectability.

Kurt, check out the drumming by the nearly-forgotten Chicagoan Bob Conselman 
on Goodman's 1928 pairing of That's A Plenty and Clarinetitis - wow!!  I 
wonder what happened to him?

Mike.
>
>
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