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Louie Bellson

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Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, who performs as Louie Bellson, was an American jazz drummer. He is one of the few jazz drummers to be considered a worthy rival for Buddy Rich. Regarded by Duke Ellington as "the world's greatest drummer", Bellson was a composer, arranger, bandleader and a tireless jazz educator who pioneered the use of two bass drums, and in terms of the speed of his hands and feet and the wonderful, percussive "ideas" he conveys on the drums, stands next to only Buddy Rich as the total technician.

Top songs

  1. Percussionistically Speaking
  2. Fascinating Rhythm
  3. Caxton Hall Swing
  4. Skin Deep
  5. Little Drummer Boy
  6. Phalanges
  7. Charlie's Blues
  8. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
  9. The Hawk Talks
  10. Groove Blues
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  1. Gonga Din - Instrumental
  2. Chameleon
  3. For Europeans Only
  4. Soar Like An Eagle
  5. Loris
  6. A Pearl for Louie
  7. Claxton Hall Swing
  8. Prelude
  9. Tired
  10. Peaceful Thunder
  11. Melody For Thelma
  12. Blast Off - Live
  13. Stein On Vine
  14. Stein On Vine - Instrumental
  15. St. Louis
  16. Shave Tail - Instrumental
  17. Don't Stop Now - Live
  18. Caravan
  19. Copasetic - Long Version
  20. Air Jordan
  21. Valencia
  22. Hawk Talks
  23. Copasetic - Short Version
  24. Waltz for Mia
  25. A Gush Of Periwinkles - Instrumental
  26. Blue Invasion - Instrumental
  27. Brush Strokes
  28. Gonga Din
  29. Rainbow Dreams
  30. Melody For Thelma - Instrumental
  31. Sing a Song of Love
  32. Sentido En Seis (Six Feeling)
  33. Quiet Riots
  34. Airmail Special
  35. Far-Eastern Weekend
  36. Shave-Tail
  37. It's The Time Of The Year
  38. If We Were In Love
  39. 3 P.M.
  40. I Wonder Why
  41. Carnaby Street
  42. Basso Bravo
  43. Who Brings You the Good News?
  44. Cotton Tail
  45. Movin' On
  46. Cherokee
  47. Beyond Category
  48. Ode To The Oba
  49. Sunshine Swing
  50. I'm Shooting High
  51. 5 1/2 Weeks
  52. Intimacy Of The Blues
  53. Begin The Beguine
  54. Our Manne Shelly
  55. With Bells On
  56. Bombs Away
  57. Allen's Alley
  58. Liza
  59. Blast Off
  60. I Wonder Why - Instrumental
  61. All The Things You Are - Live
  62. Don't Stop Now!
  63. Lightning & Thunder
  64. Blue Invasion
  65. Wanderlust
  66. Get Up And Go
  67. Checkerway
  68. I Can't Get Started
  69. Open Your Window
  70. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - Live
  71. 57th Street Blues
  72. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - Live
  73. Ballad Medley - Instrumental
  74. The Eel
  75. Shave Tail
  76. Earl's Pad
  77. La Banda Grande
  78. Love For Sale - Live
  79. Fascinatin' Rhythm
  80. Don't Be That Way
  81. Five Notes of Blues
  82. Seven Come Eleven - Live
  83. Set Break
  84. The Intimacy of the Blues
  85. Hot
  86. A Gush Of Periwinkles
  87. Acetnam
  88. Zip
  89. St. Louie
  90. 1957 Skin Deep Solo

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