Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!

Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!: The Art of the Chart

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

From time to time, drummer Louie Bellson releases an album with a “theme" (Their Time Was the Greatest, dedicated to big-band drummers; Air Mail Special, to celebrated bandleaders, for example). This time around, with Art of the Chart, he has chosen to salute some of the world's finest arrangers. A wise choice, as charts are the fuel that powers the big-band engine, and without them the silence would indeed be deafening. Two of these charts ("To C. P. with Love," ...