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Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!

The Art of the Chart

By Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998

Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!: The Art of the Chart

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

From time to time, drummer Louie Bellson releases an album with a “theme" (Their Time Was the Greatest, dedicated to big-band drummers; Air Mail Special, to celebrated bandleaders, for example). This time around, with Art of the Chart, he has chosen to salute some of the world's finest arrangers. A wise choice, as charts are the ...

Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!: The Art of the Chart

by Jim Santella
May 1, 1998

At the age of seventy-three, drummer Louie Bellson shows no signs of slowing down; his drum set propels his Big Band Explosion! here today as it has in the past for the bands of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and others. Bellson's casual, friendly manner off the stage shows up in the performances ...