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Re: The Gene Kruppa Story
« on: Nov 13, 2006, 07:06:52 PM »
I think of him as more swing than jazz. A very real original.

Beat me daddy, eight to the bar...sounds kind of kinky in today's lingo, but he carried the beat of the swing era!
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