[Dixielandjazz] Re: Krupa's trumpeter Revisited

[Stan Brager]

Okeh was Columbia's inexpensive label at that time. And, yes, that was
indeed Roy Eldridge playing most of the trumpet solos and helping out on
vocals with the Gene Krupa band.

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Newman" <bobngaye at surewest.net>
To: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>; "DJML"
<Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Cc: "Dave Robertson" <shirleysacr at aol.com>; "Newell Johnson"
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Krupa's trumpeter Revisited


> That's interesting, Bill.   I have it,  also,  and in the Proper Records
> Gene Krupa Story collection, he says the trumpets were Eldridge, Norman
> Murphy, Torg Halten, and Graham Young, but he says it was recorded in
> Chicago on August 18, 1941, on Okeh 6352.  Was Okeh a Columbia label?
> Maybe the discs used in the ProperBox CD series were Okeh reissues.
> Possible?
>
> Bob Newman
>
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> From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
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> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:38 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Krupa's trumpeter
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> >> I know everyone in the whole, wide world knows the answer to this but
me.
> > But I heard Krupa's Old Rockin' Chair's Got Me on satellite radio today
> > and
> > the trumpet player was a monster!  Who, pray tell, was it?
> >
> > Dear Bill,
> > Without more detailed information, I would guess that the "Rockin'
Chair"
> > by
> > Gene Krupa and His Orchestra you heard would be the one with the great
Roy
> > Eldridge featured throughout on trumpet.
> > Recorded for Columbia on 2 July 1941.
> > Playing it now. Magnificent!
> > Kind regards,
> > Bill.
> >
> >
> >
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