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A rare autograph from Ethel (Gene's first wife above)
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Discography til 1945 (4)
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Click here for more selections
Click here for Gene Krupa Discography
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Click here for info on Zildjian and here for the Krupa display in the rechristened conference room.
Brooks Tegler informs me that there are two "Keep 'Em Flying"  front head skins. The one featured in the Zildjian conference room is painted on the skin whereas the other is attatched to the skin.  Look out for his forthcoming book or website on the complete chronology of Gene's equipment from '34 till '73.
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Click here for an explanation of the trademark. The two links within give more of the history
Click here and here for Zildjian Cymbal Stamp Chronology Timelines
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Above are late 40's and early 50's cymbal set - up catalogs (personal collection)
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1958 Zildjian cymbal set-ups of famous drummers above (personal collection)
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Late 60's Zildjian catalog (personal collection)
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From a mid 1970's Zildjian famous drummers catalog honouring Gene other notables (personal collection)
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Testing Swish Cymbals
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 Dealer banner from Frank's Drum Shop, Chicago. Click here and here (Personal Collection)
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From The Drum Centre of Indianapolis
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Set Of Gene's Cymbals owned and played from the1960's except a 20" ride from 1973. Includes 14" hats, 8" splash, 16"crash, 18"crash, 20" ride. These were authenticated by Lennie Di Muzio (here) and (here)
Magazines
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Metronome's from my personal collection
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More on Irene Daye here
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From the Sept 1938 Down Beat
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From Music and Rhythm magazine January 1942
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The band that Swings with Strings souvenir book
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On the cover of the Polish magazine "Singing and Dancing"
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Read the tribute from the 1979 Modern Drummer Magazine here
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(Personal Collection)
More Sheet Music here and here
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1952 Jazz at the Philharmonic tour program
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Click here for info on the Drum battle between Gene and Buddy
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Signed 13th 1953 (JATP) Tour Program by Gene Krupa and Flip Phillips (personal collection)
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The 1st Australian Jazz Festival which included Teddy Wilson. Click here for a history of Jazz in Australia
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Australian Tour August 1954
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Source: The Age, Thursday, August 12 1954, pg 5
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Source: The Argus, Thursday, August 12, 1954,pg 5
I am lucky to have the boomerang mentioned above in my personal collection
Click here and here for info on  Kenn Brodziak, the Polish promoter of this tour for Krupa the Polish drummer.
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Source: From The Age Wednesday Aug 18th
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The Australian Tour Program from Melbourne (Personal Collection)
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From the final Melbourne performance on August 26 1954
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The signed Tour Program from Sydney (Personal Collection)
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At Sydney Airport in August 1954 during the Australian Tour
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Gene with 8 year old Drummer Colin Petersen Australia 1954 (here)
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The Adelaide Tour Program (Personal Collection)
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Click here and here to read
Pg 1 here and Pg 3 here
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Gene comments that Australia is the "Greatest country I've been in on any of my overseas travels"
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The Australian Tour record release
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A signed program at a gig performed on my 5th birthday. (personal collection)
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Personal Collection (1936 Catalog)
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Personal Collection (1939 Catalog)
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Personal Collection (1940 catalog)
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 Dave Tough replaced Gene in Benny's Swing Band when Gene left. An interesting book just on paradiddles (here)
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On the cover of every Slingerland catalog from 1936 to1967 (6). Click here for a Slingerland history.
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More info here
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Roy Burns here
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60's movie stars series above. Life magazine card series right
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1950's Swedish trading cards
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Spanish playing card
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Deck of cards featuring Gene's 1940's Radio King Drum Set  (personal collection)
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Zippo Lighter from 1958
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Personal Collection
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1940's T Shirt of Swing Band Leaders
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The above ad was inside the 1939 Slingerland Catalog i purchased
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1958 ad for the Patti Page Oldsmobile Show (season 1 episode 5 29 Oct 1958)  Click here
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"Champ Hats" from The San Francisco Examiner 1930's
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1939 Downbeat
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1940 Downbeat
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1957 add below
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Rare promotional sticks made for Gene
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Rare 16" inscribed Floor Tom Skin
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Dish? Jockey Jump
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Some nice album covers
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  • Home
  • Art - About Andrea
    • Exhibitions
    • Galleries >
      • Into the Light Exhibition
      • Youth Exhibition
      • Armada Drift - Illuminate Adelaide Graduate Pathway Program Commission
      • Snapshots of other recent work
      • Adrift / Floating and Fathomless
      • Collaborations
      • Digital drawings & projections
      • Installations
      • Prints
      • Textiles
      • The Negative City (Installation) - YouTube
      • Artist Books
      • Blue Prints
      • Microcosm
      • Environment
      • Abstract
      • Bronze Sculpture
    • C V
    • Recognition
    • News
    • Workshops / Mentorships
  • Music - About Andy
    • Gig Dates Present to 2012 >
      • 2025
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
    • Gig Archive 1982 - 2011
    • Played @
    • Recordings
    • Recorded @
    • Sound Gallery
    • dB Magazine
    • Big Day Out
    • The Butcherbird Collective
    • ARBA Autumn Blues Keyboard Showcase
    • Wings Of Knives
    • First Lessons
    • Books
    • Collage
    • Scrapbook Vol 1 >
      • Don Morrison
      • The Lonely Cosmonauts >
        • Miroslaw Hermaszewski-1st Polish Cosmonaut
      • The Rectifiers
      • The Dark Seeds
      • The Song Readers
      • Peter Long
      • Peccadillos
      • Chris Finnen & Hoy Hoy
      • GT Stringer >
        • Posters
      • Oily Penguins
      • Primitive Painters >
        • Dave Norris Tribute
    • Scrapbook Vol 2 >
      • TJ Collective
      • Big Smoke
      • Puppethead >
        • Gig for Greg
      • Ashtray Boy
      • Loose Change
      • Greasy Gravy
      • no-asis
    • Scapbook Vol 3 >
      • Miscellaneous Paraphernalia and Mixed Combos including Raunchy Sugar
    • Scapbook Vol 4
    • Cabaret
    • Obituaries
  • Gene Krupa
    • Photos and Films
    • Publications
  • Links
  • Contact