DRUMS WEEK 2025: Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. The Benny ...

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Opening the festivities of Commencement week, Gene Krupa will bring his band here on Monday, June 16, for the gala Senior Spread, traditionally known as the Seniors' last filing at College life, it ...

Jazz vocalist Anita O'Day. She joined Gene Krupa's band in 1941. She later sang with Stan Kenton. She is still performing today (Original broadcast: 12/3/87).

15 January 1941: Don Van Vliet, or Captain Beefheart, retired from music in the early 1980s to pursue painting. This 1997 documentary is by John Peel (the rest is on YouTube), who drove him around on ...