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LOUIE BELLSON LEGACY

 * Home
   * NAVIGATION
   * NEWS
   * Email Help
 * Contact
 * GUESTBOOK
 * Bio & Beyond
   * In Memoriam
   * Monument Dedication
   * Memorial Concerts
   * Posthumous Honors
 * Celeb Quotes
 * Site-Seeing
 * Shop
   * CD Store
 * Charts
   * Discography
   * YouTube Channel
 * Drums
   * Early Drumsets
   * Drum Equipment & Layout
   * Slideshow of Louie Bellson's Drumset
   * Drummers of the Expedition
 * Videos
   * Slides
 * Books
   * Bellson Books
   * Drum Books (Bellson-Endorsed)
   * Bellson in Others' Books
   * Bellson in DVDs
 * Links
 * Mrs. B

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WELCOME TO THE BELLSON BEAT!

 

Celebrating 98 years

of the Enduring works of LOUIE BELLSON



 

Louie Bellson was deemed “the world’s greatest musician” by Duke Ellington, “the
epitome of musical talent and a very gifted composer and arranger” by Oscar
Peterson, and “the best person I ever met” by Tony Bennett.

 

He performed on more than 200 albums with a range of artists, including Duke
Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry
James, Woody Herman, Oscar Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton,
Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Mel
Torme, Joe Williams, Wayne Newton, and Bellson's first wife Pearl Bailey.

 

Bellson composed more than 1,000 pieces and wrote a dozen books on drums and
percussion. He received the prestigious American Jazz Masters Award from the
National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. He was also the recipient of awards
from ASCAP and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was a six-time Grammy
nominee, and held four honorary doctorates.

 

Click pic for Bio VIDEO

  

For full bio, click Bio & Beyond page.

For more quotes with photos, click Celebrity Quotes page.

Then, write your say in the Guestbook .



> > > . . . A Rousing Success! . . . BELLSON MUSIC FEST . . . Sat June 18, 2022
. . . Rock Falls, Illinois . . .< < <



BELLSON MUSIC FEST
Four Bands + Seminar honor legacy of beloved Illinois native son.
(Tap pic for 50-photo Gallery ~ Tap Facebook for Story)



> > > . . . . Louie Bellson charts now digital! . . . . iJazzMusic.com . . . . <
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Louie Bellson charts now available in repertoire of 



www.iJazzMusic.com 

A new non-profit jazz music publishing company 

Digital download of all music & books!

Bellson Charts at iJazzMusic.com 



Featuring the Most Outstanding Composers/Arrangers/Authors from
Europe, Asia, South America and the United States.
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> > > . . . . HudsonMusic.com . . . . Bellson Poetry Book! . . . . HOT OFF THE
PRESS! . . . . < < <

The Poetic Thoughts and Verses of Louie Bellson



www.HudsonMusic.com

Compiled & edited by Dave Black

Featuring the thoughts, insights and musings of Louie Bellson



Louie Bellson had a little-known passion for writing poetry.
Hudson Music is proud to publish the prose and poetry of Louie Bellson, a man
universally loved as a gentle and kind soul—as well as a towering figure in the
world of drumming.
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. . . . Drummer . . . . Bandleader . . . . Composer . . . . Arranger . . . .
Clinician . . . . Inventor . . . . Author . . . . Recording Artist . . . .
Grammy Nominee . . . . NEA Jazz Master . . . . An American Legend . . . .


EXPLORE A REMARKABLE LIFE

From Youth . . .              to Legend . . .



. . . The Beat Goes On !

Whether Hometown . . . 

"Louie Bellson: Hometown Hero"

 

Bellson never forgot his roots, in the Q-C area (Moline/Rock Island, IL) where
he invented the double-bass drum in his Moline High School Art class in 1941. 

 

 

. . . National . . . 

Click below to watch Bellson perform the third movement of his composition

"East Side Suite" on The Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson. (1992)



 . . . or International, . . . 

Bellson Site-Seeing Around the World

 

 

 Displays, Exhibits, Artifacts

 Go to (click) Site-Seeing page.

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. . . It's all here!

Begin the adventure!  Select your next stop on navigation bar at top.

Then, after exploring the site, Take the Bellson Quiz . <---Click


IN HIS OWN WORDS

(Click pics to play)

 

 

 



 

(1974)
Watch Louie Bellson discuss his beloved mentor, Duke Ellington in “Reminiscing
In Tempo.” -->



(1981)
At the 1981 Bands of America Grand National Championship. Louie was featured
performing with the U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps and co-hosted the TV
broadcast.









(1999)
While giving a clinic at the Hollywood Vintage Drum Show, Bellson is pleased to
be reunited with his Billy Gladstone Custom Snare Drum.


 

(1995 & 2003)

Watch Louie Bellson in these two interviews by NAMM, the National Association of
Music Merchants -- Oral History Program.









 

 


(2005)

Hear Bellson’s 8 extensive interviews as conducted by the Smithsonian Jazz Oral
History Program, a part of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.





(----)
Louie Bellson is interviewed by Paul Chiaravalle, President of Chiaravalle &
Associates at IAJE (Int'l Assn. for Jazz Educators) re: The Rich Matteson
Foundation.

 

(1996)

Louie Bellson interview by Fillius Jazz Archive Director Monk Rowe on April 12,
1996 at the Sarasota (Fla.) Jazz Festival.



 

(Click above pics to play.)


IN MEMORIAM

 



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Click candle for In Memoriam page (Louie; widow; Dee Dee).

 

2013 Oil Portrait Unveiled

Click pics to watch 4 min. video clip of Mrs. B at the unveiling of the stunning
portrait of Louie Bellson by artist Michael Del Priore.  Chicago Drum Show
coordinator Rob Cook presides (May 18, 2013)



 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs. B was jubilant!


"HEAR, HERE!"

Tunes that'll knock your socks off!

Play here -->

(Also available at bottom of screen on all pages.)




HISTORY LESSONS




MUSIC CHARTS

Louie Bellson Big Band Library

Full arrangements

 

Titles now available: 50

• “Skin Deep”

• “Hawk Talks”

• “Intimacy of the Blues”

(click chart for more) -->        

Pricing:

• According to chart size/use.

• Includes repro, assembly. Shipping cost separate.

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AMAZON - CDs produced by Mrs. B on Percussion Power Label

  The Sacred Music of Louie Bellson

  Louie & Clark Expedition 2

 

iTUNES

  The Sacred Music of Louie Bellson

  Louie & Clark Expedition 2

 




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