The Vinyl Countdown # 824

Gene Krupa & His Orchestra, To Be Or Not To Be-Bop (1960)

I found out about the great jazz drummers early on – including of course Gene Krupa – through my mum, via her father. My grandfather had wanted to be a jazz drummer. I didn’t know this. But my mum told me. Apparently his friend was a pretty decent jazz drummer and he’d go along to watch him, and t…