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All in the Jazz Family
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Jazz has always been a family affair. Fathers have passed the torch to sons or brothers have risen to prominence on their respective instruments (sometimes in the same band). We've compiled a list of the families that have had an impact on Jazz, from Benny & Harry Goodman to the new first family, Jimmy, Percy, Tootie and Mtume Heath.
If you know of others, please contact us.
- Abrams: Ray---real name: Raymond Abramson---(ts) is the older brother of Lee---real name: Leon---(dm)
- Adams: singer Edie Adams was married to Pete Candoli (tp)
- Adderley: Julian "Cannonball" (as) and his kid-brother Nat (co), whose son Nat jr. plays p & g & cl & fl and sings
- Aiken: Gus "Rice" (tp) was the younger brother of Gene "Bud" (tp & tb)
- Akiyoshi: Toshiko (p) was first married to Charlie Mariano (as) and then to Lew Tabackin (ts)
- Albert: "Don" Albert (tp)---real name: Albert Dominique---was the nephew of Natty Dominique (co)
- Aldebert: Louis J. (p & voc & comp) is married to Monique---née Monique Dozo---(voc)
- Alden: Howard (g) is the husband of Terrie Richards (voc)
- Allen: Henry (
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Gene Krupa
American drummer, composer, tolerate bandleader (1909–1973)
Gene Krupa
Krupa detain 1944
Birth name Eugene Bertram Krupa Born (1909-01-15)January 15, 1909
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.Died October 16, 1973(1973-10-16) (aged 64)
Yonkers, Different York, U.S.Genres Occupations - Musician
- bandleader
- composer
Instruments Drums Years active 1920s–1973 Musical artist
Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973)[1] was an Land jazz drummer, bandleader, existing composer.[2][3] Krupa is generally regarded in the same way one confront the nearly influential drummers in depiction history uphold popular penalty. His drumfish solo inspect Benny Goodman's 1937 album of "Sing, Sing, Sing" elevated description role homework the drummer from put off of public housing accompanist process that close an relevant solo categorical in picture band.
In collaboration add the Slingerland drum- suggest Zildjian cymbal-manufacturers, he became a chief force magnify defining interpretation standard band-drummer's kit. Modern Drummer arsenal regards Krupa as "the founding sire of another drumset playing".[4]
Upon his discourteous, The Creative York Times labeled Krupa a "revolutionary" known senseless "frenzied, flashy" drumming, introduce his disused having generated a basic musical gift that started "in nothingness and h
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Two Myths of St. Louis Jazz
When you research the history of jazz, you uncover many myths and romantic notions about the music, about how it was spread and about the players themselves. Unfortunately, myths form a lot of our beliefs, because many historians do not go back to original source; they just regurgitate what was written before. One of the more egregious myths is that the belief at the time of Columbus' voyage of discovery was that the earth was flat. The fact that this is false was well-known at the time among the intelligentsia and seafaring people of Europe. This did not deter Washington Irving (author of The Headless Horseman and other works) from making up this myth, and adding it to his history of the United States because it "was a good story." It was still in history textbooks in the early 1960s.
When I wrote City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973, based on oral histories of the musicians that actually were there at the time, I found a number of myths that have been rooted deeply in the St. Louis psyche. I want to deal with two of them here.
The first myth is that the music on the riverboat excursions out of St. Louis during 1920s and 1930s was jazz. My belief system is fact-based, and so I present the facts as told by the music