In the ' 80s and ' 90s, he worked with Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid, Buck Clayton, Benny Carter, Billy Taylor, Harry Edison, Mel Tormé, Ernestine Anderson, Louie Bellson, John Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Dick Hyman, Byron Stripling, Jane Jarvis, Frank Vignola and was a featured member of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.

From the mid-70s he recorded and worked as a session man in the genres noted previously, performed with the big band leaders Louie Bellson, Bill Holman and Bill Berry and was principal soloist for Tony Bennett and Lena Horne.

In later years this kind of appreciation for what Manne could do was echoed by jazz notables like Louie Bellson, John Lewis, Ray Brown, Harry " Sweets " Edison, and numerous others who had worked with him at various times.

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni ( July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009 ), known by the stage name Louie Bellson ( his own preferred spelling, although he is often seen in sources as Louis Bellson ), was an Italian-American jazz drummer.

Bellson was an internationally acclaimed artist who performed in most of the major capitals around the world.

Louie Bellson was born in Rock Falls, Illinois, in 1924 and started playing drums at three years of age.

A few years later, renowned drummer Buddy Rich ( referred to by many as " the world's greatest drummer " over the years ) paid Bellson a supreme drummer-to-drummer / bandleader compliment by asking him to lead his band on tour while he ( Rich ) was temporarily disabled by a back injury.

Mrs. Bellson, who is affectionately called " The Indomitable Mrs. B " by the many jazz-radio fans, recalled how Ellington explained to Louie that " in the beginning there was lightning and thunder and that's you!

" Ellington told Louie, ' You ought to do a sacred concert of your own ' and so it was ," Mrs. B. said, adding, "' The Sacred Music of Louie Bellson ' combines symphony, big band and choir, while ' The Jazz Ballet ' is based on the vows of Holy Matrimony ...."

Bellson was also a poet and a lyricist.

Bellson was known throughout his career to conduct drum and band clinics at high schools, colleges and music stores.

Bellson's Telarc debut recording, Louie Bellson And His Big Band: Live From New York, was released in June 1994.

Bellson was a six-time Grammy Award nominee.

As one of three recipients, Bellson was lauded by NEA chair Jane Alexander who said, " These colossal talents have helped write the history of jazz in America.

While working with Buddy Rich, Pat also was working in groups led by Woody Herman and Louie Bellson.

In January 1994, Bellson received the prestigious American Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, a U. S. federal agency.

In the 1940s, Louie Bellson pioneered use of two bass drums, or the double bass drum kit.

Influential drummers of the jazz tradition included Gene Krupa, " Papa " Jo Jones, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes, Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Morello and many more.

He recorded Gettin ' Down To It ( 1969 ) and Soul on Top ( 1970 ), two albums consisting mostly of romantic ballads and jazz standards, with the Dee Felice Trio and the Louie Bellson Orchestra respectively.

* 1924 – Louie Bellson, Italian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader ( d. 2009 )

Jazz drummers such as Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Shelly Manne, Cozy Cole, and Papa Jo Jones all used Avedis Zildjian cymbals.

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

His influences stem from being nurtured around the tutelage of such notables as Buddy Rich, Steve Gadd, Nick Ceroli, Jeff Porcaro and Louie Bellson.

* Count Basie / Zoot Sims Basie & Zoot ( 1975 ) quartet w bassist John Heard and drummer Louie Bellson.

Over the years, Jazz at the Philharmonic featured many of the era's preeminent musicians, including Louie Bellson, Ray Brown, Benny Carter, Nat " King " Cole, Sonny Criss, Buddy DeFranco, Harry " Sweets " Edison, Roy Eldridge, Herb Ellis, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Bill Harris, Coleman Hawkins, J. C. Heard, Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Illinois Jacquet, J. J. Johnson, Hank Jones, Jo Jones, Barney Kessel, Kenny Kersey, Gene Krupa, Lou Levy, Meade Lux Lewis, Shelly Manne, Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Flip Phillips, Buddy Rich, Charlie Shavers, Willie Smith, Sonny Stitt, Slim Gaillard, Clark Terry, Tommy Turk, T-Bone Walker, Ben Webster, Lee Young and Lester Young.

In 1987 Mel Powell joined other music greats for a jazz festival on the cruise ship SS Norway playing alongside Benny Carter, Howard Alden, Milt Hinton, and Louie Bellson and others.

And the couple adopted a little girl, Dee Dee J. Bellson, born April 20, 1960.

Over the years, Bellson took several bandleader's holidays to play under the direction of other leaders or to lead someone else's band.

In May 2007, Bellson recorded a number of his compositions and arrangements for big band, featuring Clark Terry on Flugelhorn, with Kenny Washington and Sylvia Cuenca on drums.

He also played on the West Coast briefly with the Louie Bellson big band in 1959, and in the same year began recording as leader with small groups.

In May 2009, Francine Bellson fascinated jazz fans when she told The Jazz Joy and Roy syndicated radio show, " I like to call ( Sacred ) ' how The Master used two maestros ,'" adding, " When ( Ellington ) did his sacred concert back in 1965 with Louie on drums, he told Louie that the sacred concerts were based on ' in-the-beginning ,' the first three words of the bible.

Louis Bellson, 1952

* Thunderbird ( Louis Bellson album ), 1965

* 1979 Louis Bellson, With Bells On!

* 2003 Louis Bellson and His Big Band ( VIEW )

* YouTube video of Louis Bellson

White spent his youth having lessons from the late George Scott of Wanstead E11 ; learning from recordings of Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson.

She has also appeared with Woody Herman, George Shearing, Gerry Mulligan, Peggy Lee, Joe Pass, Cleo Laine, Louis Bellson, Pete Rugolo, Bill Watrous and been a member of The Tonight Show All-Stars, The Woody Herman Thundering Herd, the Benny Carter Quintet, and the Bob Cooper Quartet.

Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed, and singers Frank Sinatra, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes

Between 1943 and 1952, Bellson performed with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington ( for whom he wrote " Skin Deep " and " The Hawk Talks ").

In addition to The Jazz Passengers and The Lounge Lizards, he has performed with bassist Charlie Haden's reunited Liberation Music Orchestra in 1996, and with the alumni Ellington Orchestra led by Louie Bellson.

Horace Silver, Louie Bellson, and Bob Florence (" Bebop Charlie ", " Nilestones "), and others have written tunes for “ Carlitos Niles ”.