Louie Bellson didn’t just change how people play the drum set; he transformed the way people think about drummers. In the BB age (Before Bellson), drummers often were caricatured as musically ...

Heckman is a freelance writer. Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer and bandleader who combined remarkable instrumental virtuosity with far-ranging compositional skills, has died. He was 84. According to his ...

Alyn Shipton presents an archive interview with the late Louie Bellson, in which the drummer selects his key discs, including with Ellington, Goodman, Armstrong and Pearl Bailey. Show more In a ...

Since the 1940s, Louie Bellson has been one of the most admired drummers in jazz. Even today at 77, he’s still drum rolling along full-steam ahead. And on Nov. 14, the percussion and big band maestro ...

Who could have foreseen that drummer Louie Bellson and trumpeter Clark Terry, both of whom joined the celebrated Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1951, would be reunited for another high-powered big-band ...

Bellson performs on one of his famous compositions while a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra: Louie Bellson, a virtuoso jazz drummer whose career spanned more than seven decades, has died from ...