Monday, February 16, 2009

Louis Bellson Dies.....


Louie Bellson, the drummer whose career started in years 1930 and continued until its hospitalization due to a breaking in the hip, occured after a fall in passed November, dies in 14 of February. In passed January, Bellson had been transferred to Los Angeles for recovery. Beyond its work as musician, Bellson was an untiring educator, keeping clinical of battery in schools and houses of music. The Bellson is credited the double creation of the low one in the battery. It had 84 years.
The man of who Duke Ellington, as says itself, affirmed to be “optimum drummer of the world… (but also) the greater musician of the world” not only acted with sets of ten of great musicians of century 20, beyond recording and acting as leader and co-leader. In accordance with its “Web site”, it can be heard in writings of Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Peterson Oscar, Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett, Honey Tormé, Joe Williams, Wayne Newton e of its wife, Pearl Bailey. Been born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoniin, in Falls Rock, Illinois, in 6 of July of 1924, Louie Bellson started touching battery to the three years. After winning Krupa Gene in a duel of battery to the 17 years, the career of Bellson firmly took off after to estrelar the film “The Power Girl” with Benny Goodman and the Peggy singer Lee.
It remained with Goodman up to 1946, followed for periods with Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and Duke Ellington. It, also, journeyed with the “Jazz at the Philharmonic” of Norman Granz. In 2007, the album “Louie was recorded & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2”, in contribution with the trompetista Clark Terry for the stamp “Percussion Power”. A powerful and melodic soilist, Bellson was also a talentoso and prolific composer, with more than 1,000 songs under its credit. Its parts “Skin Deep” and “The Hawk Talks” had been presented by the orchestra of Duke Ellington.
Bellson married the Bailey singer in 1952 and they had remained together until its death in 1990. It journeyed with it and acted as its musical director. Between its many accomplishments, Bellson d was indicated six times for the Grammy, received the prize “Alive Legend from the Jazz” for Kennedy Center and the heading of master of the American Jazz for the “National Endowment will be the Arts” in 1994. It got four headings of honorary doctor for the following institutions: Northern Illinois University, Denison University, Augustana College and DePaul University. It more than wrote a dozen of books on battery and percussion
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