Jazz Drumming Is Still Alive In The Year 2014?

Rating: 8/10 (18 November 2014)

In the year 1959 when I was 10 years old, my late Mother took me to see the movie "The Gene Krupa Story" with the late actor Sal Mineo playing the role of Gene Krupa. At that time in the year 1959 Jazz music and Jazz musicians were popular and Gene Krupa the jazz drummer was still alive. My late Father like a jazz style called "Cool Jazz" and so do I. I have the movie "The Gene Krupa Story" on DVD and I can see certain things in the movie I did not understand when I was 10 years old; It was the jazz drumming I was interested at that time in 1959. When I learn to play jazz drums, I was listening to a jazz drummer name Joe Morello who play jazz drums for the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet. Since then I have left jazz drumming and have become interested and involved in songwriting and music composing using the computer MIDI systems. After seeing the movie "Whiplash" is there a comparison to the two different movies from the year 1959 and 2014? I think there is - for example, the late jazz drummer Gene Krupa did not have the support of his father or mother or his siblings to help pursue his career as a musician and the character "Andrew" from the movie "Whiplash" did not have the support of his father to help pursue the music career of his son Andrew. I do not remember my music director being so forceful when I played the drums in the high school jazz band or the the college jazz band. Maybe the movie director took some liberty and dramatize some of the events? Today in 2014, I think, any band director would be fired for physically hitting any music band student. I like the movie and I am glad some filmmaker made a movie about jazz drumming.