Louie Bellson Smithsonian Interview Block 655 (Q11451)

When I met Buddy Baker, the first thing he told me, he says, "If you want to write about strings, you've got to remember one thing: strings don't swing. " You can't write notes for them like you would for saxophones, because they're not going to play it with that feel. Even if you give them like a dotted-eighth followed by a sixteenth-note Bellson sings a swing rhythm], they're going to play i ...