Person
ISNI: 
0000 0001 1442 0354
https://isni.org/isni/0000000114420354
Name: 
Balassoni, Louis Paul
Balassoni, Luigi
Balassoni, Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio
Bellson, Lou
Bellson, Louie
Bellson, Louie Paul
Bellson, Louie (pseudonym)
Bellson, Louis
Bellson, Louis (compositeur, batteur, arrangeur)
Bellson, Louis Paul
Dates: 
1924-2009
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
instrumentalist
performer
Related identities: 
Balassoni, Louis (Wirklicher Name; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
All-Star Orchestra (Musical group : Louie Bellson) (isRelatedTo)
Armstrong, Louis (1901-1971)
Basie, Count (1904-1984)
Brown, Ray (1926-2002)
Carter, Benny
Coles, Nathaniel Adams
Danval, Marc
Ellington, Duke
Ellington, Duke (1899-1974)
Ellis, Herb (1921-2010)
Fitzgerald, Ella (1918-1996)
Getz, Stan
Heard, John
Louie Bellson Big Band (isRelatedTo)
Miller, Johnny
Mills, Irving
Moore, Oscar
Norman, Gene
Oscar Peterson quartet (see also from)
Pablo Records
Peterson, Oscar (1925-2007)
Shavers, Charlie
Tizol, Juan
Titles: 
After you've gone (4 min 50 s)
After you've gone (5 min 09 s)
Airmail special
All of me
All the things you are
Au privave
Basie in Sweden
Basie Jam
Basin street blues
Blues for roy (6 min 02 s)
Body and soul
Can't we be friends
Caxton Hall swing
Charlie got rhythm : part I
Cheek to cheek
Cherry (5 min 46 s)
Controversial suite, Part I, The
Controversial suite, part II, The
Cottontail
Don't be that way (4 min 57 s)
Ella and Louis again
Fine romance (3 min 51 s), A
Flying home
Foggy day, A
Gee Baby, ain't I good to you (4 min 11 s)
HAWK TALKS, THE
Hey, Raymond (5 min 28 s)
Home run (2 min 35 s)
How high the moon
How high the sky : traditional
How long has this been going on? between Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Louie Bellson, Ray Brown
I'll never be the same
I'll remember april
I'm confessin'
In the mood for swing
Indian summer
It ain't necessarily so
Joe Turner (8 min 54 s)
Lady Fitz (4 min 44 s)
Lester leaps in (4 min 44 s)
Let's call the whole thing off
Let's do it
Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson
Love for sale
Love is here to stay (3 min 58 s)
Makin' whoopee
Midnight sun (4 min 36 s)
Modern reading text in 4/4 : for all instruments
Montreux collection, The
Mooche (6 min 34 s), The
More than you know (6 min 43 s)
Niles blues
Now's the time
Perido (8 min 20 s)
Poor butterfly (5 min 16 s)
Rent party (9 min 24 s)
Roots (6 min 41 s)
Roy and Diz
Royal garden blues
Satch & Josh again.
She's funny that way (5 min 47 s)
Skin deep (6 min 48 s)
Skin deep ; Skin deep
Soft winds (4 min 23 s)
Someday you'll be sorry
Soul on top
Stardust
Stompin' at the Savoy (5 min 12 s)
Summertime
Sweethearts on parade (6 min 33 s)
Take the "A" train (7 min 56 s)
Tatum group masterpieces, The
Tea for two (5 min 53 s)
Teach me tonight (3 min 57 s)
Tenderly
That old feeling
That's the one (5 min 10 s)
These foolish things
Time is right (4 min 26 s), The
Tone parallel to Harlem the Harlem suite (13 min 44 s), A
Undecided
Under a blanket of blue
Uptown
Wee
Yes Sir, that's my baby
Yessir, that's my baby (5 min 35 s)
Notes: 
1969 all-star White House tribute to Duke Ellington [SR] p2002 container (Louie Bellson, drums)
Associated Language:
Black, brown & beige, 1994 container (Louie Bellson and his All-Star Orchestra)
Discogs, viewed April 29, 2020 (Louie Bellson Big Band)
Drummers (Musicians) Band directors Jazz musicians Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Authors
Feather, L.G. Bio. enc. of jazz, 1999 (Bellson, Louie or Louis (Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni); b. July 6, 1924, Rock Falls, IL; drums, composer, leader)
Find-a-grave WWW site, January 17, 2017 (Louis Paul "Louie" Bellson; born Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924, Rock Falls, Illinois; died Feb. 14, 2009, Los Angeles, California; jazz drummer and composer; married to Pearl Bailey)
Grove music online, Jan. 22, 2004 (Bellson, Louie (Louis; Balassoni, Louis Paul; Balassoni, Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio); b. July 6, 1924, Rock Falls, IL; American drummer, bandleader, and composer; his birthdate is widely given incorrectly as July 26)
Jazz Swing (Music)
New Grove dict. Amer. music (Bellson (Balassoni), Louis (Paul), b. 26 July 1924, Rock Falls, IL; jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer)
New York times WWW site, Feb. 17, 2009 (Louie Bellson; b. Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924, Rock Falls, Ill.; d. Saturday [Feb. 14, 2009], Los Angeles, aged 84; crisp and dazzling drummer who worked with many of the major figures of the swing era and a gracious entertainer who made frequent appearances at the White House and on The Tonight Show)
Oxford music online, January 17, 2017 Grove dictionary of American music, 2nd edition (Bellson, Louie (Balassoni, Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francisco Antonio); born July 6, 1924, Rock Falls, IL; died February 14, 2009, Los Angeles, CA; American drummer, composer, arranger, and music director)
The trumpet kings at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 [SR] p1975 container (Louis Bellson, drums)
Wikipedia, January 17, 2017 (Louie Bellson; born Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924, Rock Falls, Illinois; died February 14, 2009, Los Angeles, California; known by the stage name Louie Bellson (his own preferred spelling, although he is often seen in sources as Louis Bellson); American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, bandleader, jazz educator, and author)
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