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The Drum Battle

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The Drum Battle
Live albumby
Released1960
RecordedSeptember 13, 1952
VenueCarnegie Hall,New York City
GenreJazz
LabelVerveMG V-8369
ProducerNorman Granz
Gene Krupachronology
The Gene Krupa Story
(1959)
The Drum Battle
(1960)
Chicago...And All That Jazz!
(1961)
Buddy Richchronology
The Driver
(1960)
The Drum Battle
(1960)
Playtime
(1961)

The Drum Battle – Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich at JATP(later issued asThe Original Drum Battle!) is a 1960 live album by drummersGene KrupaandBuddy Rich,recorded at aJazz at the Philharmonicconcert atCarnegie Hallin 1952.[1]

Reception

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Allmusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

Lindsay Planer writing onAllmusicwrote of the opening tracks that "While Smith drives the band, Krupa is front and center with his antagonistic percussive prodding. 'Idaho' is marked with Jones' rollickingpost-bopmastery as he trades solos with Smith and can be heard quoting lines fromMonkbefore yielding to Smith. The cover ofDuke Ellington's 'Sophisticated Lady' sparkles from beginning to end. Jones' opening flourish sets the tenure as Smith settles into a smoky lead, containing some nicesyncopationand regal augmentation from Jones....The tempo is significantly stepped up on a cover ofBenny Goodman's 'Flying Home,' which is full of high-spirited playing and garners a sizable reaction from the audience. "Planer described Fitzgerald's performance on" Perdido "as" hot steppin' and definitive "and said it featured" authority, class, and most of all, soul ".[1]Rich and Krupa's performance onThe Drum Battlewas described by Planer as a "mile-a-minute wash of profound percussion".[1]

Track listing

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  1. "Idaho"(Jesse Stone) – 7:26
  2. "Sophisticated Lady"(Duke Ellington,Irving Mills,Mitchell Parish) – 4:35
  3. "Flying Home"(Benny Goodman,Lionel Hampton) – 6:02
  4. "Drum Boogie"(Gene Krupa,Roy Eldridge) – 9:20
  5. "The Drum Battle" (Norman Shrudlu) – 3:20
  6. "Perdido"(Ervin Drake,Hans J. Langsfelder,Juan Tizol) – 3:30

Personnel

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Production

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References

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  1. ^abcdThe Drum BattleatAllMusic
  2. ^Cook, Richard;Morton, Brian(2008).The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings(9th ed.).Penguin.p. 849.ISBN978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^"The Drum Battle".AllMusic.Retrieved22 November2017.