Drummer man

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Drummer man
Studio album by Gene Krupa

Publication
(s)

1956

Label (s) Verve Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

12

running time

(CD)

occupation

production

Norman Granz

chronology
Krupa and Rich
(1955) 		Drummer man Liva at the New School
(1973)

Drummer Man , with full title Gene Krupa Big Band: Drummer Man featuring Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge is a jazz album by drummer Gene Krupa and his Big Band, recorded in the spring of 1956 and released in 1956 on Verve Records .

The album

The Verve album with the misleading title Drummer Man (it contains hardly any drum solos worth mentioning by band leader Gene Krupa) is a remake session; it refers to the successful titles of the legendary big bands ( Gene Krupa and His Orchestra ), which the swing drummer directed 1941-43 and after 1945 and in which the singer Anita O'Day and the trumpeter Roy Eldridge are the main attractions with titles like Let Me Off Uptown , Leave Us Leap or After You've Gone Were.

Anita O'Day (2005)

Anita O'Day had already sung in the Krupa band in 1941 and then established herself as a soloist; Roy Eldridge was also a member and one of the most important soloists of the Krupa Orchestra in 1941 with titles such as Rockin 'Chair , but at the time he did not last long as an African American in a white swing band and left the band in spring 1943.

At the Verve session produced by Norman Granz , Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge and Gene Krupa re-recorded their hit tracks from the 1940s, such as Earl Bostic's hit Let Me Off Harlem with O'Day and Eldridge as a vocal duo, Hoagy Carmichaels Rockin 'Chair , Krupas Fish Fry and the swing classic After You've Gone with Roy Eldridge as main soloist. With Leave Us Leap band musicians are presented solo, first Eldridge, then tenor Eddie Shu , trombonist Jimmy Cleveland , pianist Dave McKenna and finally tenor Aaron Sachs ; he is also the main soloist in the short Wire Brush Stomp composed by Krupa . Anita O'Day can also be heard as a soloist in Opus 1 , Drummin 'Man , Boogie Blues and in Slow Down . The session ends with That's What You Think with O'Day and Eldridge and After You've Gone with Eldridge and Sachs as soloists.

Well-known musicians such as Quincy Jones , Manny Albam , Nat Pierce and Billy Byers acted as arrangers for the session . Drummer Gene Krupa has short solo interludes in Boogie Blues and Wire Brush Stomp . Other prominent musicians of the session were Bernie Glow , JJ Johnson , Kai Winding , Jimmy Cleveland , Hal McKusick , Danny Bank and guitarist Barry Galbraith ; However, these were not in the foreground as a soloist.

review

Digby Fairweather highlights the album in the Jazz Rough Guide from the extensive Krupa discography and mentions Bob Rusch in the All Music Guide with three stars and emphasizes that the interplay of Krupa, Eldridge and O'Day is sometimes even better than the ones Original sessions from the 1940s. Gene Krupa himself said about this recording:

“ This session was the most fun I've had in all these years. It's fun to swing; I wouldn't exchange the swing for the pop stuff for anything. I just sat behind my drums, listened to Anita and Roy again and felt so great. "

- Gene Krupa

Track list

Gene Krupa Big Band: Drummer Man featuring Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge (Verve 827843-2)

  1. Let Me Off Uptown (Redd Evans - Earl Bostic ) 3:22
  2. Rockin 'Chair ( Hoagy Carmichael ) 3:17
  3. Opus 1 ( Sy Oliver ) 3:33
  4. Fish Fry (G. Krupa) 3:06
  5. Drummin´ Man (G. Krupa - Truck Parham ) 3:14
  6. Drum Boogie (G. Krupa - Roy Eldridge) 3:36
  7. Boogie Blues (G. Krupa - Remo Bioni) 3:51
  8. Leave Us Leap ( Edwin Finckel ) 2:37
  9. Slow Down (Redd Evans) 3:34
  10. Wire Brush Stomp (G. Krupa) 2:17
  11. That's What You Think (Kay-Sue Werner) 3:59
  12. After You've Gone ( Henry Creamer - Turner Layton) 2:49

The album is not to be confused with Drummin 'Man with Krupa recordings from 1938 to 1947.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gene Krupa, quoted in the liner notes