A stellar collection of newly-discovered and long lost rarities from the 1930s to the 1970s, never released anywhere in any form! Here's Gene with John Kirby from 1938, two radio promo discs of Wire Brush Stomp advertising Gene's Some Like It Hot film, on the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street radio program from 1941, the never- released white label American Bolero from 1952, the Krupa Jazz Trio on tv's Star Of The Family from 1952, the Steve Allen appearances from 1954 and 1955, Sing Sing Sing from a 1960 Ed Sullivan Show, and Gene's audio portion of his tv ad for Big Band Hits. An absolute must-have. <br><br> Track 1) I Got Rhythm with John Kirby (3/5/1938)<br> Track 2) Wire Brush Stomp Promo Disc (11/1938)<br> Track 3) Wire Brush Stomp Promo Disc #2 (11/1938)<br> Track 4) There'll Be Some Changes Made (3/31/1941)<br> Track 5) Ida (3/31/1941)<br> Track 6) Dark Eyes (6/19/1952)<br> Track 7) American Bolero Parts One and Two (12/9/1952 - 12/10/1952)<br> Track 8) Fine and Dandy (10/1/1951)<br> Track 9) Indiana and Krupa's Blues (6/28/1955)<br> Track 10) Sing Sing Sing (6/6/1960)<br> Track 11) Big Band Hits Television Commercial (12/1971)

From July through September of 1944, Krupa participated in almost a dozen, live concerts that reunited him with his old Chicago buddy, Eddie Condon. This new release is over one hour of the best of these shows, featuring stars like Bobby Hackett, Willie The Lion Smith, Pee Wee Russell, Bob Haggart and many more. <br><br> Track List<br> 1) Everybody Loves My Baby<br> 2) You're Luk to Me<br> 3) Limehouse Blues<br> 4) Clarinet marmalade<br> 5) Sunny Side<br> 6) Rose Room<br> 7) Here Comes the Band<br> 8) California Here I Come<br> 9) I Know that You Know<br> 10) Dinah<br> 11) Soon<br> 12) Blues<br> 13) Walkin' the Dog<br> 14) I Can't Give You Anything<br> 15) Shiek of Araby<br> 16) Bonus Track<br> 17) Big Noise from Winnetka<br>

Gene Krupa Quartet at JATP October 2, 1955 <br><br> Gene Krupa, Eddie Shu, Bobby Scott, Whitey Mithell<br><br> Track 1) Drum Boogie<br> Track 2) Sleepy Lagoon<br> Track 3) How High the Moon<br> Track 4) Sing, Sing, Sing<br>

Three seperate sessions: With the Balaban & Cats Dixielanders from 1971, an interview with WNEW's William B. Williams (Gene Hamp, Benny and Teddy) in conjunction with the release of Goodman's Together Again recording of 1964, and an unearthed Dial M for Music program from 1970. Not state-of-the-art audio at all times, but always state-of-the-art music. <br><br> Track 1) Gene Talks<br> Track 2) Honeysuckle Rose<br> Track 3) Caravan<br> Track 4) Hindustan<br> Track 5) Take the A Train<br> Track 6) WNEW Interviews<br> Track 7) Dial M for Music Program, 1970<br>

Released in conjunction with our DCI video, “Legends of Jazz Drumming,” the concept of this CD was to pay to tribute to those drummers who had hits, semi-hits or were associated with a particular title. Hence, we have Gene, Buddy, Cozy, Max, Art, Joe Morello, Ray Bauduc and Sonny Payne. What put this project across was the fabulous playing of reedman Larry McKenna, pianist Paul Arslanian and my long-time colleague, Bruce Kaminsky. They make the drummer sound good. <br><br> Track 1) 920 Special<br> Track 2) A Night in Tunisia<br> Track 3) Big Noise From Winnetka<br> Track 4) Cute<br> Track 5) Drum Boogie<br> Track 6) Joy Spring<br> Track 7) Old Man River<br> Track 8) Take Five Four<br> Track 9) Topsy<br>

Krupa was much more active in the 1970 to 1973 period than any formal record indicates, and did a good deal of his playing with regional, “traditional” groups such as Al Winters’ Six Star International Jazz Band featured here. Krupa sounds as if he was feeling very, very well that day, indicted by his fine solo on “Perdido.” Marcus Belgrave’s trumpet is a standout. <br><br> Track 1) Four Leaf Clover<br> Track 2) St. James Infirmary<br> Track 3) Sugar<br> Track 4) A Smooth One<br> Track 5) China Boy<br> Track 6) Sweet Georgia Brown<br> Track 7) Perdido Closing Remarks

Gene did several all-star recordings after returning from Japan with Teddy Napoleon and Charlie Ventura, then re-formed the Jazz Trio with multi-reedman/trumpeter/harmonica player Eddie Shu. Shu’s first outing with the Trio is a stellar one, and the entire outing is loose and swinging. Dig Teddy Napoleon’s left hand. Eddie would only put up with the lack of a bass for a year or so. In late 1954, Gene finally relented, and Englishman John Drew was hired as bassist. <br><br> Track 1) Dont Be That Way<br> Track 2) How High the Moon<br> Track 3) Sing Sing Sing<br> Track 4) Love for Sale<br> Track 5) Booted<br> Track 6) This Cant Be Love<br> Track 7) Harmonica Shu Boogie<br> Track 8) September Song

Very, very rare concert - in superb fidelity - of Goodman, Krupa, Wilson and Hampton in their first Carnegie Hall appearance since 1938. Though Gene Krupa was quite ill at this juncture, his playing is superb, as is the playing of the rest of the group. Bassist Slam Stewart was added to any of these reunion dates, and often referred to as "The King" as our "designated hitter" <br><br> Track 1) I'm a Ding Dong Daddy<br> Track 2) Moonglow<br> Track 3) One O'Clock Jump, featuring Teddy Wilson<br> Track 4) Memories of You<br> Track 5) Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen<br> Track 6) Lady Be Good, featuring Slam Stewart<br> Track 7) Don't be that Way / Stompin' at the Savoy<br> Track 8) How High the Moon, featuring Lionel Hampton<br> Track 9) Body and Soul<br> Track 10) After You've Gone<br> Track 11) Avalon<br> Track 12) Sing Sing Sing

This show, a fund raiser of some sort featuring Hamp's band of the time, was written about in Down Beat magazinebut was thought not to be recorded. The leader, who just cannot stop playing, is really swinging, as are Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge. Supposedly, Gene asked Hamp not to call "Sing Sing Sing," but in spite of some ragged passages. he plays the heck out of it... on Bernard Purdie's drums, yet. <br><br> Track 1) Avalon<br> Track 2) Teddy Wilson piano solo<br> Track 3) Moonglow<br> Track 4) The Man I Love, featuring Roy Eldridge<br> Track 5) I Got Rhythm<br> Track 6) Sing Sing Sing

Gene, Charlie and Teddy Napoleon were treated like heroes when they visited Tokyo in 1952. They were the first American jazz group ever to play there and opened up the country for American jazz. And the Jazz Trio never sounded better. This copy was made for us expressly from the Japanese Victor masters. <br><br> Track 01) Drum Boogie (rare unissued, unedited version)<br> Track 02) Moon Over the Ruined Castle<br> Track 03) How High the Moon<br> Track 04) Drum Boogie Part One (as issued)<br> Track 05) Drum Boogie Part Two (as issued)<br> Track 06) Moon Over the Ruined Castle (alternate take)<br> Track 07) Tokyo Express (10 Ritchie Drive)<br> Track 08) Badger's Party<br> Track 09) Stompin' on the Ginza<br>

Not listed in any discography, this recent discovery has been touted as being recorded in 1955. That's doubtful, as this quartet - Eddie Wasserman on reeds, Ronnie Ballon piano, Jimmy Gannon on bass, and Gene - didn't really get together until around 1958. Voice of America's Willis J. Conover does the introduction honors to this swinging, professionally recorded set, highlighted by a 12-plus minute version of "Stompin' at the Savoy" <br><br> Track 01) Introduction by Willis J. Conover<br> Track 02) Sweet Georgia Brown<br> Track 03) I've Got the World on a String<br> Track 04) Lover Man<br> Track 05) Stompin' at the Savoy

This fabulous LP by one of the strongest versions of the Jazz Quartet - Gene, Eddie Shu, Dave McKenna and Wendall Marchall - got lost in the shuffle through the years. And that's, unfortunate, as it's one of Gene's best. Eddie Shu shines on "Chelsea Bridge," and there's ample solo space for the leader on "Gene's Solo Flight" (Listen to that 24-inch ride cymbal) and other tunes. Pianist McKenna was the perfect pianist for the group. He was in and out of many organizations at this time, and the record shows he left Gene to join Dick Johnson, then Bobby Hackett. Bassist Wendell Marshall, first cousin of the legendary Jimmy Blanton, was on hand as a sub. A versatile modernist, marchall spent some years with the likes of Ellington, Art Blakely and many others. Gene's groups with Eddie Shu were his most modern. Outside of a few "set pieces", there was never an attempt to duplicate the arrangements used by the groups with Charlie Ventura. By and large, Gene just let Eddie, and the other players, blow. <br><br> Track 01) Day by Day<br> Track 02) Little Girl Blue<br> Track 03) As Long as I Live<br> Track 04) Our Love is Here to Stay<br> Track 05) Jumpin at the Woodside<br> Track 06) Memories of You<br> Track 07) Gene's Solo Flight<br> Track 08) Home (Where Shadows Fall)<br> Track 09) Chelsea Bridge<br> Track 10) Out of Nowhere<br> Track 11) China Boy

Arguably Goodman's best band, these broadcasts--comprising almost an hour in surprising fidelity--feature BG and the boys, along with the Trio, Quartet, Harry James, Krupa and Martha Tilton, at their absolute height. Not listed on the JazzLegends.com site and exclusive to the MP3 store. <br><br> <u>Track List:</u> <br><br> Track 1) Lets Dance<br> Track 2) Big Johns Special<br> Track 3) You Took the Words Right Out of my Heart<br> Track 4) If Dreams Come True<br> Track 5) Bei Mir Bist Duo Schon<br> Track 6) Where or When Trio<br> Track 7) Darktown Strutters Ball<br> Track 8) I've Hitched my Wagon to a Star<br> Track 9) Dinah Quartet<br> Track 10) I Want to be in Winchells Column<br> Track 11) All of Me<br> Track 12) Lets Dance<br> Track 13) Life Goes to a Party<br> Track 14) Sweet Someone<br> Track 15) If Dreams Come True<br> Track 16) Cant Help Lovin That Man Trio<br> Track 17) Goodbye<br> Track 18) Alice Blue Gown<br> Track 19) Josephine<br> Track 20) Its Wonderful<br> Track 21) Avalon Quartet<br> Track 22) Rockin the Town

Guitarist/raconteur Condon had a television program broadcast from New York City in the late 1940s. Airchecks from that program remain very, very rare and very, very sought-after. This program, for example -- plus a few numbers from a later show--features artists that include Joe Bushkin, Bob Haggert, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Butterfield, Woody Herman, Charlie Shavers, Charlie Barnet, George Wettling, and the tap dancing/singing/drumming of one Buddy Rich. Whatever one's feelings about Condon, he certainly brought together the finest "mainstream" artists around, and had the good sense to feature them on early television. <br><br> <strong>Track List</strong> <br><br> Track 01) Three Little Words<br> Track 02) These Foolish Things<br> Track 03) Tap Dance Routine Stompin at the Savoy<br> Track 04) I Cover the Waterfront featuring Sarah Vaughan<br> Track 05) Love Me Or Leave Me featuring Sarah Vaughan<br> Track 06) Jam Blues featuring Charlie Barnet and Charlie Shavers<br> Track 07) St. Louis Blues<br> Track 08) Blues featuring Woody Herman<br> Track 09) Indiana featuring Billy Butterfield<br> Track 10) Its the Talk of the Town featuring Red McKenzie

The soundtrack to the famed Columbia biopic of 1959 has been inexplicably unavailable for over 40 years. Various drummers through the years, including Mickey Sheen, have claimed that they played drums on the soundtrack. Perhaps they did play a part in performing on the incidental music portions, but-- write this down -- Gene Krupa, without a doubt plays drums on these tracks. Through the song selection is on the odd side -- no "Drum Boogie," "Sing Sing Sing," etc... -- many percussionists believe that Krupa never played better than he did on these tracks. And joke about Sal Mineo if you must, but no one could have done a better job in miming the man himself. <br><br> <strong>Track List</strong><br/><br/> 1) Main Title<br/> 2) I Love My Baby<br/> 3) Royal Garden Blues<br/> 4) Indiana<br/> 5) Spiritual Jazz<br/> 6) Cherokee<br/> 7) Indiana Big Band<br/> 8) Memories of You Anita O'Day<br/> 9) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans<br/> 10) Song of India<br/> 11) Finale Featuring Gene Krupa and Shelly Menne

Dave Garroway, famed host of television's "Today Show" and a great fan and supporter of jazz (he discovered, as the story goes, Jackie & Roy), was one of the most thoughtful and intelligent media personalities in the business. In the mid-1950s, he hosted a national radio program called "Garroway at Large" that featured the most incredible--and diverse--array of guests ever to appear on any program. In this rare, one-hour program from 1954, Dave plays host to, among other folks, Gene Krupa. Gene was literally and figuratively beating the drum in those days for the opening of the Krupa/Cozy Cole drum school in New York city. Gene does a 15-minute or so segment with the host here, gives him drum lessons, etc. This represents, by the way, the only recorded evidence of Gene playing on a practice pad. <br><br> <strong>Track List</strong><br> 1) Gene Krupa on the Dave Garroway Show (58:47)<br>

This is one of the landmark recordings in percussion history, featuring almost 80 minutes of the "Papa" himself talking, soloing and reminiscing about the drumming legends, percussion history, his life and his times. THough this was supposed to come out commercially at one time on CD, it never has. Get it now instantly. <br><br> <strong>TRACK LIST</strong> <br><br> 1) Drum Solo Number One<br> 2) Basics Gadgets and Effects<br> 3) Rudiments<br> 4) Rim Shots<br> 5) Drummers Ive Met Baby Dodds<br> 6) Josh<br> 7) Unnamed St. Louis Drummer<br> 8) A.C. Godley<br> 9) Alvin Burroughs and Gene Krupa<br> 10) Sid Catlett<br> 11) Unnamed Unplaced and Walter Johnson<br> 12) Sonny Greer<br> 13) Billy Gladstone and Manzie Campbell<br> 14) Chick Webb<br> 15) Baby Lovett<br> 16) Dancers Ive Met<br> 17) Peter Nugent<br> 18) Eddie Rector<br> 19) Baby Laurence<br> 20) Bill Bojangles Robinson<br> 21) Colors<br> 22) Drum Solo Number Two