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Personal Data:

Born:	15.01.1909	(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Died:	16.10.1973	(leukemia)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Live: Americas Favorite Drummer	1939	Mr. Music
2.	Let Me Off Uptown & Anita O'Day	1941
3.	The Second Big Band Sound Of Gene Krupa	11/1976	Verve
4.	The Radio Discs Of Gene Krupa	5/1977	Joyce
5.	Giants of the Big Band Era	29.09.1992	Classic Music Vault
6.	Drum Battle at JATP & Buddy Rich	07.06.1999
7.	Live At The Palladium (live)	23.01.2001	Collector's Choice
8.	Boogie Ballads and Be-Bop: The Best of Columbia Years	07.05.2002	Collectables
9.	Complete Capitol Recordings of Gene Krupa and Harr	05.11.2002	Blue Note
10.	His Orchestra and the Jazz Trio	21.01.2003	Sounds Of Yesteryear
11.	Big Noise from Winnetka	21.10.2003	Sounds of Yesteryear
12.	1947-1949 & His Big Band	21.10.2003	Classics
13.	Hot Drums & His Orchestra	02.03.2004	Quicksilver
14.	Who's Rhythm?	06.07.2004	Ocium
15.	1949-1951 & His Orchestra	20.07.2004	Classics
16.	Complete Sextet Studio Sessions	27.07.2004	Jazz Factory
17.	Gene Krupa	07.12.2004	Platinum Disc
18.	Gene Krupa / Stan Kenton & Stan Kenton	15.02.2005	Platinum Disc
19.	Linger Awhile & His New Orchestra	22.02.2005	Sounds of Yesteryear
20.	Drummin' Man: 1927-1949	12.04.2005	Jazz Legends
21.	Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements	26.04.2005	Verve
22.	Best of Gene Krupa: Drummin' Man & His Orchestra	25.10.2005	Jazz Forever
23.	1952-1953	15.11.2005	Classics Fr
24.	Starburst & His Big Band	17.01.2006	Sounds of Yesteryear
25.	At His Very Best	29.08.2006
26.	1953-1954	19.06.2007	Classics
27.	Thinking of Gene credited to: Gene Krupa Orchestra & Michael Berkowitz	09.10.2007	Sea Breeze
28.	Best of Big Bands: Drum Boogie	29.01.2008	Sbme Special MKTS.
29.	Gene Krupa	27.05.2008	B.D. Jazz
30.	Live from the London House credited to: Gene Krupa Quartet (live)	18.08.2009	Mr. Music
31.	Complete 1955 Session & Lionel Hampton & Teddy Wilson	15.06.2010	Essential Jazz
32.	The Drum Battle: Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich at JATP	03.05.2011	Chrome Dreams
33.	Burnin' Beat / The Original Drum Battle & Buddy Rich	08.01.2013	Verve
34.	Sextet	19.11.2013	Universal
35.	Four Classic Albums	11.08.2014
36.	Seven Classic Albums	07.04.2015
37.	The Complete 1955 Session & Teddy Wilson & Lionel Hampton	06.05.2016

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Drummin' Man	7/1940
2.	High On A Windy Hill / It All Comes Back To Me Now & His Orchestra & Howard Dulany	1/1941			2
3.	Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina & His Orchestra & Anita O'Day	7/1941			9
4.	Let Me Off Uptown & His Orchestra & Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge	8/1941			10
5.	Drum Boogie	1/1945		9
6.	Bonaparte's Retreat & Bobby Soots	8/1950			16

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1976	45	13.11.1976	31	Jazz Albums	album review
1977	24	11.06.1977	20	Jazz Albums	album review