1.	Autumn
2.	G-Bop
3.	Bolero at The Savoy
4.	I Should Have Kept on Dreaming
5.	I Surrender Dear
6.	Gene’s Boogie
7.	Limehouse Blues
8.	Lemon Drop
9.	Hop Skip & Jump
10.	Disc Jockey
11.	After You’ve Gone
12.	I Hear You Screaming
13.	How High The Moon
14.	This Time The Dreams On Me
15.	We’ll Gather Lilacs
16.	These Foolish Things

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01. Disc Jockey Jump
02. Yesterdays
03. Lemon Drop
04. After You’ve Gone
05. Pennies From Heaven
06. Let me Off Uptown
07. G-Bop
08. I Should Have Kept Of Dreaming
09. Gene’s Boogie
10. Sometimes I’m Happy
11. Birdhouse
12. Samaba

As a teenager in Chicago Gene Krupa was studying drums when he discovered a group of young white jazz musicians playing in a South Side movie theatre. This group is remembered today as the Austin High Gang and included banjoist Eddie Condon, saxophonist Bud Freeman, and drummer Dave Tough. Krupa was very impressed with Tough's style and started to emulate his playing. He struck up a friendship with Tough and he took him to see King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band to listen to the band's drummer Baby Dodds. Dodds became Krupa's new drum hero. Krupa started to drum at jam sessions held at a speakeasy called the Three Deuces (across the street from the Chicago Theater), playing with musicians such as Teschemacher, Bix Beiderbecke and Benny Goodman. Soon afterwards Krupa began playing in some of the jazz and commercial dance bands of Chicago including the Benson Orchestra, Thelma Terry and her Playboys, Al Gale, Joe Kayser, and others. In December of 1927, Red Mckenzie set up a recording session that featured several of the Austin High Gang for the Okeh label. The sessions were issued as Mckenzie's and Condon's Chicagoans. Krupa's drumming was exceptional on these recordings and sounded unique because they were among the first recordings to feature a full drum kit. The common conception among recording engineers at that time was that the bass drum and tom-toms wouldn't record well, so they are absent from most recording sessions of the 1920s. Krupa also appeared on the other Austin High recording sessions that were issued under the names of the Jungle Kings, Chicago Rhythm Kings and Frank Teschemacher's Chicagoans. These records have come to be defined as the Chicago jazz sound and the musicians who played on them are often referred to as the Chicagoans. In 1928 Condon's Chicagoans headed to New York to back singer Bee Palmer, the shimmy queen. The job fell through, Krupa and the Chicagoans recorded sessions with Red Nichols and Miff Mole. He ended up playing in several of Red Nichols Broadway pit orchestras and playing in commercial dance bands of little Jazz interest until 1934 when record producer John Hammond recruited Krupa for Benny Goodman's Orchestra that featured the arrangements of Fletcher Henderson. The national radio broadcasts of Benny Goodman's Orchestra brought a great deal attention to Krupa's drumming. By the end of the decade Krupa had become a star. His drum part on Goodman's 1936 hit "Sing, Sing, Sing" was the classic drum anthem of the Swing Era, and his matinee idol appearance on stage and appearances in films made him one of the biggest musical stars of the era. In 1938 he left Goodman's group and formed the Gene Krupa Orchestra which featured trumpeter Roy Eldrige and singer Anita O'Day. The band continued to be very popular up until 1943 when Krupa was busted in San Francisco for possession of marijuana. He was sentenced one to six years in prison, but released after eighty days on bail for an appeal. He was able to beat the charges against him eventually because they had been filed improperly, but it caused the break up of his band. He rejoined Benny Goodman briefly before switching over to Tommy Dorsey's band. Krupa got his big band back together in 1945 which enjoyed wide popularity until 1951 when he scaled the size of his bands to match the changing styles of Jazz which had shifted from the big bands to smaller Modern Jazz combos. Unlike most of the big name band leaders of the Swing era Krupa was able to change with the music as it became dominated by Bop in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1959 a film called "The Gene Krupa Story", starring Sal Mineo was released and was a moderate success. In 1960 Krupa had a heart attack and cut down on his performances, going into semi-retirement. In the early 1970s he played in several Goodman's Orchestra reunion concerts. He died in 1973 of a heart attack while suffering from leukemia. ---redhotjazz.com

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1 	Drummin' Man	2:57
2 	I Know That You Know	2:56
3 	Nagasaki	2:27
4 	Symphony In Riffs	2:52
5 	Jeepers Creepers	3:01
6 	Apurksody	2:56
7 	Fool Am I	2:50
8 	Murdy Purdy		3:08
9 	Never Felt Better, Never Had Less	2:45
10 	Ta-ra-ra-boom-der-e	3:08
11 	Do You Wanna Jump Children	2:32
12 	The Madam Swings It		3:01
13 	Georgia On My Mind		2:56
14 	Wire Brush Stomp	2:13
15 	Fare Thee Well, Annie Laurie	2:53
16 	Grandfather's Clock		2:45
17 	Bolero At The Savoy		2:52
18 	Dracula		2:38

Benny Goodman's drummer Gene Krupa (1909), who had pioneered the extended drum solo, formed his own orchestra in 1938, initially offeering adventurous performances Wire Brush Stomp (june 1938), such as Nagasaki (july 1938), with virtuoso scat singing of Leo Watson, Drummin' Man (november 1940) and Bolero at the Savoy (october 1941); but after the war led a schizophrenic life, torn between increasingly trivial pop material and pioneering bebop arrangements.

Krupa died in 1973. ---scaruffi.com

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01. Let Me Off Uptown
02. Rockin' Chair
03. Opus 1
04. Fish Fry
05. Drummin' Man
06. Drum Boogie
07. Boogie Blues
08. Leave Us Leap
09. Slow Down
10. Wire Brush Stomp
11. That's What You Think
12. After You've Gone 

Gene Krupa - drummer
Anita O'Day - vocals
Roy Eldridge – trumpet

Roy Eldridge (trumpet) got the featured billing (along with vocalist Anita O'Day) he deserved on Drummer Man, a date featuring Gene Krupa fronting a big band. This was a reunion of sorts, but one that worked well, better in some cases than the original. The title's a bit misleading, for although Krupa's propulsions were clearly heard, his soloing was limited to a few features. Still, any drummer or fan of drumming will respond to the ambiance of this date. ---Bob Rusch, Rovi

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