Peter York loves Krupa

The drummer Peter York discovered his love for jazz at the age or eight or ten, as he tells Mick Brockett in the Bonner General-Anzeiger . He listened to Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. He doesn't see a breakaway from jazz if today he mostly works in pop music - he loves everything having to do with rhythm. For York jazz should always have some American color. The "Scandinavian fashion jazz" of today, he says, sounds much too cold. His tour with (the German comedian and musician) Helge Schneider was quite a thing; one never knew what would happen the next moment. Humor is an important part of his jazz philosophy. "Jazz used to be a happy music full of atmosphere, but today it has become much too serious. That's why jazz lost so many fans. Today jazz musicians mostly are exposing themselves, and play endless solos. That's not my cup of tea at all.