Gene Krupa & His Orchestra: The Brush Drum Solo - 1939 video free download

Steven

Oh you wild and crazy kids.

Klaus Hennig

schön!

Robert Kirchhoefer

Gene Krupa And His Orchestra The Brush Drum Solo circa : 1939

sirnaked

incredible

steven t easter

I DEDICATE THISTO THE FAB! [ KITTY LaROAR ] she has fantastic [ BRUSH WORK ] #ONELOVE

daisyroots

Gosh! that was Swell!

Brandon WC

This needs some context. Everyone in the room did three lines of coke just before Gene started playing.

Robert Więckowski Perkusista

Made in Poland Gene KrupaEugene Bertram Krupa, born January 15th 1909 – the youngest of nine children - to a polish immigrant family on Chicago's South Side, achieved greater fame in the eyes of the man in the street, than any other jazz drummer.Despite the greater speed of such wonder technicians as Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson, who came after him, it was Krupa who captured the imagination of the fans.A combination of circumstances propelled him into the public eye in the mid 1930s. He was white, (important in an age in which racial prejudice was rife) he was good looking, he was a great showman, with an intense driving beat, that came straight out of New Orleans, from people such as Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton and Tubby Hall. This was later fashioned by the influence of the dynamite drumming of Chick Webb, the little giant of the drums, who died tragically young in 1939.Chicago in the 1920s was a thriving centre of New Orleans Jazz. King Oliver's Creole Band with Dodds, Carroll Dickerson's Band with Hall, Jimmie Noone’s with Singleton and a host of other hot combos were to be found all over the city. Gene’s mother was grooming him for the Priesthood and he was sent to St Joseph’s College, where an inspired Priest, Fr Rapp, encouraged the boy’s musical aspirations. He told Gene, there are only two types of music, “good and bad”. The pull of jazz was becoming stronger than the vocation to the Priesthood, although he remained a devoutly religious man all his life. Saxophonist Carmen Leggio, who played in Krupa’s 1960’s Quartet, said,”Gene was 100 percent, very spiritual. After we finished playing at the Metropole many times at 3:00 in the morning...He’d go to church, say his prayers and then go to sleep”. (1)Clarinettist, fantasist and drug pusher, Milton ‘Mezz’ Mezzrow was looking for a drummer. He was given Gene’s phone number. The two became firm friends.Gene, “was a neat ,well dressed,... very good looking youngster..shy and serious”. Said Mezz.Mezzrow took him to see the South Side drummers at the late night dives. Mezz was concerned at how Mrs Krupa would feel about young Gene keeping such late hours. “Oh, it’ll be alright Milton, as long as I’m with you. Momma thinks you’re a genius and anything I do with you is OK”. (2) If only she knew.Gene was in musically good company, hanging around with fellow drummer Dave Tough who took him to see Dodds. The two percussionists had the same influences, but each achieved a clearly identifiable sound of his own.Prior to these two and George Wettling, who also studied Baby Dodds, jazz drumming by white and in some cases black drummers, who were not New Orleanians, had very little going for it. The urgency and drive of Tony Sbarbaro of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band was not to be found in the riki-tick rhythms of Bix Beiderbecke's Wolverines, Red Nichols Five Pennies, Adrian Rollini's Goofus Five or Paul Whiteman's lumbering ensemble. Even Fletcher Henderson’s all Negro orchestra suffered rhythmically in comparison to the Southern bands.Chauncey Morehouse and Vic Berton who graced many white jazz recordings may have been good percussionists, but they did not speak the language of ‘Hot Jazz’. Their accompaniments consisted mainly of cumbersome choked cymbal beats, which served only to break up the rhythm, instead of laying it down. Syncopate it did, swing it manifestly did not.Gene recalled“..There was only one Baby Dodds. ....Baby taught me more than all the others - not only drum playing, but drum philosophy. He did all that the others did and more. He was the first great drum soloist. ....Not only was he a great showman, the man played with fantastic drive. Those press rolls! He could really get things moving. It soon became clear how much I admired him and we struck up a friendship that was only broken by his death in 1959. Until I got to New York a bit later and heard Chick Webb… Baby was my biggest influence” (3) #sonor #tama #music #Meinl #meinlcymbals #zildjian #prodrum #RobertWięckowski #perkusja #genekrupa #Krupa #IanPaice #DeepPurple #MikePortnoy #DreamTheatre #SimonPhilips #Toto #TommyAldridge #WhiteSnake #AlanWhite #Yes #TonyLevin #CarlPalmer #EmersonLakeandPalmer #DenisChambers #CarlosSantana #DougAldrich #Whitesnake #BillySheehan #MrBig #DaveLombardo #Slayer #MikeStern #WeatherReports #PatMastelotto #King #KingCrimson #JojoMayer #Nerve #NealMorse #Transatlantic #DaveWeckl #ChickCorea #GlennHughes #DeepPurple #SteveSmith #VitalInformation #Journey #TerryBozzio #UK #PlanetX #meinldistributionpl #PercussiveArtSociety #SantaClaraVanguardDrum #BugleCorps#zakupperkusji #Jamsessions #edukacjamuzyczna #szkołamuzyczna #KeikoAbe #AdamMakowicz #bezpłatnelekcjegrynaperkusji #MiędzynarodowyFestiwalPerkusyjnyDRUMFEST #MiędzynarodowyFestiwalPerkusyjny #DRUMFEST #Cream #GingerBaker #GeneHoglan #MarkFord #PaulRennick #FedericMacarez #FearFactory #DarkAngel #Forbidden

RockME AllDeus

The Elvis of the Drums. 

Richard Baker

Listening to Gene play is, for me, happy music which always leaves me smiling at the end.

hundqvist

Upea!

MrMegaFredZeppelin

Gene Krupa KICKS ASS!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!

Fred B.

To you "youngins" out there...This is a video of people "socializing" "dancing" and generally getting to know each other...Maybe its time you put away your iphone and went out in the real world and lived life a little? :) :)

Fred B.

Todays drummers...."Brushes?? What's that??? :)

Angel Eyes

arguably the best drummer in history: possibly Krupa and Keith Moon photo finish.

Uri Borodin

The name of the tune is "Wire brush stomp" - try to google the rest of info)

John Hutchinson

Any idea what movie this is from?

Buddy Rich

Buddy Rich - Gene Krupa - Sammy Davis Jr.: The legendary DRUM BATTLE