As a GK fan, I’m also a collector of his memorabilia, especially his records. And one place I were I buy most of my records, due to convenience and availability, is eBay. Now, I’m not sure if this is due to the ever increasing seller fees eBay continues to impose on sellers or what, but the …
Yet another European record company that has also released a CD from Gene’s old album catalog is REAL GONE JAZZ, also out of the UK. This company has gone and done AVID JAZZ one better by releasing a four CD set containing seven Krupa albums! Although of the seven, three are again the ones with …
Why Verve, or the company that now owns the Verve catalog, has refrained from releasing more from their Krupa back-catalog on to compact disc is a mystery to me. Aside from from the three issues Gene did with Buddy Rich, Verve has elected to release only two other Krupa albums on CD in the U.S. …
Hello! and welcome to Thanks For The “Boogie” Ride!, our new blog of postings and discussions about or related to “That Ace Drummer Man”, Gene Krupa! My name is Joe and I intend to post a diverse array of content and opinions (using the pseudonym “Apurksody”, but more on that later) that I hope you’ll …