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COUNT BASIE at Birdland's fifth anniversary. NYC December 16, 1954. Excerpted from live television on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with host Steve Allen. George Shearing and vocalist Sarah Vaughan with others. CHARLIE BARNETT June 3, 1944. From KHJ, Los Angeles over Mutual Network. FRANKIE MASTERS January 26, 1947 broadcast from The Majestic Theater, San Antonio, Texas. BENNY GOODMAN "Swing School" November 16, 1937, NYC. Vocalist Martha Tilton. Announcer (Doctor) Dan Seymore. GENE KRUPA August 15, 1945 from The Astor Hotel, Times Square NYC from WOR over MUTUAL Network. Vocalist Anita O'Day. ANSON WEEKS from Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California. JOAN BROOKS SHOW with ARCHIE BLYER's Orchestra on CBS Radio June 7, 1944. ARTIE SHAW ORCHESTRA Edited out takes from broadcasts 1936-1938.

JOAN BROOKS

ANITA O'DAY

MARTHA TILTON

SARAH VAUGHAN

Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) American jazz and big band drummer and composer

Eugene Bertram Krupa was born in Chicago, the youngest of Anna (Osłowski) and Bartlomiej Krupa's nine children. Bartlomiej was an immigrant from Poland, and Anna was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
He studied with Sanford A. Moeller and began playing professionally in the mid 1920s with bands in Wisconsin. He broke into the Chicago scene in 1927, when he was picked by MCA to become a member of "Thelma Terry and Her Playboys," the first notable American Jazz band (outside of all-girl bands) to be led by a female musician. The Playboys were the house band at The Golden Pumpkin nightclub in Chicago and also toured extensively throughout the eastern and central United States. Krupa made his first recordings in 1927, with a band under the leadership of banjoist Eddie Condon and Red McKenzie: along with other recordings beginning in 1924 by musicians known in the "Chicago" scene such as Bix Beiderbecke, these sides are examples of "Chicago Style" jazz. The numbers recorded at that session were: "China Boy", "Sugar", "Nobody's Sweetheart" and "Liza". The McKenzie - Condon sides are also notable for being some of the early examples of the use of a full drum kit on recordings. Eddie Condon describes what happened in the Okeh Records studio on that day (in 'We Called It Music' - pub: Peter Davis, 1948...
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