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...Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...
...matter of fact he's not even second. And the reason for this is the fact that Krupa has finally settled down to playing good drums with his band, and quit being a one-man circus. Buddy Rich, on the other hand, is playing flash, technique, and noise, all over the place. He's with Tommy Dorsey now, and he's ruining the Dorsey band just the same way that he ruined Artie Shaw two years ago, and Joe Marsala before that...
...Krupa's pyrotechnics did for the Goodman band three years ago. But at the same time, Krupa had something else on the ball, an intangible rhythmic sense that makes all the difference in the world between a good drummer and a lousy one. It's all right to play flash now and then. I get a lot of kicks out of a good technician like Ray McKinley when he takes off for twenty minutes while Will Bradley and the boys just sit around and watch. But don't forget that when they start playing again, Ray is right in there...
...beat, and the way he builds it up. Cozy has a superb sense of phrasing, and everything he does fits in with the band. And this is the point I'm trying to get at : if a drummer doesn't fit in with a band, he's playing flash and is a one-man band himself. This seems to me to be extremely important in jazz music. For drums are naturally the loudest instruments in an orchestra, and consequently a bad drummer can do more harm to a good band than any other musician...
...hour later, with an eye-searing flash, the detonator house of the Allentown plant blew up. showered splintered wood on the bodies of three workmen...