Louie Bellson Smithsonian Interview Block 881 (Q11677)

First of all, find a good teacher, a teacher that's a drummer that knows the instrument, because that's important, because in my career as a clinician with big bands, I noticed that some of the leaders of those bands didn't know beans about drums. That's why - that one thing that I told you about Clark Terry and I went. They were playing Bellson sings In the Mood in a straight rhythm]. That ba ...