OPEN POST: Manor Music Monday With The One And Only Gene Krupa!
Greetings, music sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a boss beat - plus a triple-stroke roll, a cowbell and a wing nut. No, these aren't sex positions you've never heard of, you perv, though feel free to invent a few to go along with them, but drumming terminology. And by drumming, I mean specifically in a jazz environment, because in the jazz world, he's still considered one of the very best. And tonight - only at "Cleaning the Cat," the Manor's exclusive music club and pizzeria - DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing all his best tunes. Get ready to be shocked, since with tonight's music, every sound will be played by real instruments. I know, right? And that includes the drums played by this vanguard: Yes, it's Gene Krupa, the drumming phenom who invented tunable tom-toms, developed the modern hi-hat and was the very first to standardize (and popularize) modern cymbal techniques. Oh, and he was a dynamite player, ...