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Drummer Gene Krupa adjusting his bow tie after one of his ferocious drum solos in Benny Goodman’s band in the Madhattan Room at the Hotel Pennsylvania. November 1937, photograph by Rex Hardy Jr.

Drummer Gene Krupa adjusting his bow tie after one of his ferocious drum solos in Benny Goodman’s band in the Madhattan Room at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

November 1937, photograph by Rex Hardy Jr.

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