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There's no better way to start a day than with Gene Krupa. Fortunately for us, there's plenty of surviving film...

Here's the Gene Krupa Quartet in 1967...



Here's Krupa in the late 1940s...



Here's Krupa in Follow the Music (1947), with appearances by pianist Marty Napoleon and trumpeter Red Rodney...



Here's Krupa with brushes in 1939...



And here's Krupa witih Big Sid Catlett in 1946. Dig the Krupa head toss at 1:28...

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