Jazz Drummer Louis Bellson Dies at 84

Filed under: News, R.I.P.Jazz drummer Louis Bellson, who appeared on more than 200 albums over 60 years, including those by Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, died Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 84.Born in 1924, Bellson learned to play drums as a child after first hearing the instrument at a parade. Taught by his father, he pioneered the use of a second bass drum in his kit and won the Slingerland National Gene Krupa drumming contest at the age of 17. As...

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