Gene Krupa with Roy Eldridge & Anita O'Day: Let Me Off Uptown

After leaving Benny Goodman to front his own band, drummer Gene Krupa adopted Goodman's policy of circumscribed racial integration. Krupa showcased Roy Eldridge just as Benny presented Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hamptonas featured soloists, not full-fledged band members. (Eldridge later insisted on joining the trumpet section.) Here, Roy costars with Anita O'Day in a skit about a white chick cluing a black guy on the uptown delights of rib joints, juke joints and hep joints. Once Anita authorizes him to "Blow, Roy, blow," Eldridge raises the roof faster than carpenters fastening rib, juke and hep joints. Implausible but good-natured.