Early jazz, late 1930's
VERY 1930's jazz/dance music
Gene Krupa was an American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader
The record label, Joker was an Italian "budget" label and often produced "unofficial" releases, not authorised by the artist.
Gene Krupa - History Of Jazz
Joker Records
Cat# SM 3236
1971
Italian release
Cover is in good - very good condition, no seam splits and clean with very little wear to the edges from handling. A couple of things on the front cover, label remanents top centre where the words HISTORY OF are printed and also a small graphic damage to the top right open edge below the catalogue number, but this is not a tear.
New inner sleeve
Vinyl is in very good condition, inspected under a white halogen light source and I can see a couple of very light marks on each side. Vinyl is clean.
Special note on the recordings: The quality is, quite frankly, very good - I wasn't expecting much from a budget label release with old source material but the music is clean, clear and very listenable. Although not stated anywhere, I would expect this is a mono or pseudo stereo release - the source material would certainly have been mono. It has certainly been well recorded for the times. All songs come from the period of the late 1930's New York and Los Angeles and are mostly instrumental with a couple of songs featuring a female vocalist, Irene Daye.
I then played both sides, surface noise is not a significant issue at all, some low level surface noise at times but nothing too serious. Not scratch created surface noise, sounds more like it needs another good clean or the vinyl used was of a lower grade, to look at the grooves are very nice looking.
New outer protective sleeve
Tracks: Grandfather's Clock, I Know That You Know, Fare Thee Well Annie Laurie, Wire Brush Stomp, Bolero At The Savoy, Murdy Purdy, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-A, Never Felt Better Never Had Less, Apurksody, Do You Wanna Jump Children?, The Madam Swings It, Dracula
