Saturday, November 7, 2020

She was the first female star of jazz drumming.

Viola Smith, girl drummer, dies at 107.


When people called her the “female Gene Krupa,” she corrected them: Krupa, she said, was the male Viola Smith.



She played with Frances Carroll an the Coquettes in the 1940s. She shone in this video , which is (of course) on YouTube.