Louie Bellson Smithsonian Interview Block 189 (Q10985)
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Fabulous. He was just the opposite of Chick Webb. He was enormous. He was a big man. When he played, the right stick looked like a toothpick in his hand. But yet he had the most finesse of anybody. A big guy - you expected him to have a blow like that metal drum stick I got in front, but, to quote Dizzy Gillespie - he said nobody could play the Chinese cymbal like Big Big Sid Catlett. With tha ...
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