Gene Krupa

Här en pärla, en jazzklassiker, Louis Primas 'Sing Sing Sing' (1936!) med  Benny Goodmans orkester med bl.a. trummisten Gene Krupa som föddes den 15 januari 1909 i Chicago (Gene Krupa spelade några år i Benny Goodmans orkester och kom så småningom att bilda eget band). Gene Krupa avled 1973.

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"Sing, Sing, Sing is probably the most famous tune associated with Goodman, if not the entire Swing Era. However, it was originally a tune written by Louis Prima, and did feature vocals as the title suggests. Thus when it was imported into the band, it was originally intended as a feature for singer Helen Ward. However, the talented instrumentalists in the band kept changing it in performances, adding new passages and quotes from other songs like Chu Berry's "Christopher Columbus" to the point where it bore little resemblance to the original. But the most recognizable part of the song is Gene Krupa's drumming, which exists as a motif throughout the song. Ward recalls that one night Krupa refused to stop drumming when he got to the end of the third chorus and Goodman picked up his clarinet and soloed right along with him. The tune continued to morph in this fashion until it reached a length of eight minutes and filled both sides of a 78