May 26, 2013

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Krupa versus Bernstein: The Jazz-Classical Throwdown

Blog Name:Johnny D's Jazz Journal

Blog Author:Deleted Contact

Posted on:May 26, 2013

 

     Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein

     As a kid with eclectic tastes growing up in a musical family, I never thought about one genre being better or more important than another, or that musical genres needed to remain segregated, that merging them amounted to sacrilege. After playing percussion in youth orchestras, drums in various rock and soul bands, and piano in a jazz trio, I was in my mid-20s before I finally assembled a band that could play the smorgasbord of music I’d been composing since age 10.