Louie Bellson Big Band Explosion Sambandrea Swing

Louie Bellson & The Big Band Explosion at the Cork Jazz Festival 1980 playing Don Menza's Sambandrea Swing with solos from
Bobby Shew Flg, Clint Sharman Tmb, & Joe Romano on Tenor.

[@Frisco-moves]

Brings back good and terrifying memories of playing this chart. Damn fun, especially to improvise over, but requires every last bit of attention. Menza wrote some great stuff. Privileged to meet Louie and Pearl in my very much younger days.

[@robertcarli1969]

Amazing snare chops

[@cszetela1]

Magnificently talented drummer.

[@clintonsharman7801]

Saxes: Joe Romano, Arnie Lawrence, Andy MacIntosh, Ken Hitchcock, Bill ____. Tbns: Rick Chamberlain, Clint Sharman, Hale Rood, Don Mikkelsen. Trpts: Brian O'Flaherty, Frank Szabo, Bobby Shew, Alan Downey, Neil Balm. Piano: Frank Strazzeri, Bass: John Heard, and Drums: LOUIE BELLSON.

[@TromboneRockGod]

Love ya Clint!!!!

[@pjbdrummer]

Hi Clint lovely to hear from you - I was proud to produce this tour - I very much hope you and your family are well and safe - take care Peter

[@robertcarli1969]

@@pjbdrummer great channel Clint - Louie was the GOAT !

[@alangrund5031]

Great sound, and great solo.

[@jod49]

Superb...What a wonderful band of very talented musicians...A difficult piece and so well executed..and led only by the one the greatest drummers of all time...Louie Bellson..It's such an exciting piece of music ..One of my all time favourites..Taken at the Cork Jazz Festival [ IRELAND ]..in 1980..and to see and hear the renown Bobby Shew is another bonus...along with Clint and Joe..just mega stuff lads...

[@dcidublin]

I too has the pleasure to attend the Cork Jazz festival.Bobby Shew was a young man then. Where have the years gone.

[@fepatton]

This is the first song on his live album "Dynamite" (see the comment from Ed Polk below), which was my first Louie Bellson album, and so this chart was my intro to this amazing musician. A couple years later, graduating high school, my parents bought me a new drum set, and I went for a Slingerland double bass in white marine pearl just like Louie's! I still have it.
And, as a drummer, may I just say that the LB band turned me into a Bobby Shew fan? His flugelhorn solos are just astonishing - perfectly executed, tasteful, melodic. He's my hero in the brass section. While some of my trumpet-playing bandmates would go on about Maynard Ferguson, I knew that Bobby Shew was the real talent on the horns. :-)

[@robertcarli5803]

Louie Bellson - one of the greatest of all time.

[@joksal9108]

It’s okay to like both. You don’t have to choose between Bobby and Maynard, Dizzy and Miles, etc.

[@Tatman1212]

Amazing!

[@elenelen6975]

Высочайший профессионализм !!! ОБАЛДЕННО !!!

[@Egbert1957]

ELXELENTes Aufgebot an Musikern, als ich selbst noch in der Musikschule war. Eine Adaption von Time Check im Aufbau und Ablauf .. Ein verdammt difizieles Arragement und flüssige Spiel des Soloposaunisten ...

[@1959mstone]

I watched Mr. Bellson and Ed Shaunessy tonight show these were a drum lesson every night If I was allowed to stay up get beet up Dennis Stone

[@joedeesings2609]

Play tommy Dorsey orch.stuart foster there is no breeze to cool the flame of love

[@edpolk1262]

I have some great pics from the "live" 1979'album DYNAMITE, they recorded at the Concord Jazz Festival in CA.I just converted all the slides to digital.Fantastic shots of Menza, Catingub, Dick Spencer, Bobby Shew, John Chiodini. The sax section, close up; front and sides.

[@fepatton]

Would love to see those! That was an awesome album.

[@edpolk1262]

@@fepatton Just Google Gabriel Patrick Navarro, Gabe P Navarro, or Gabe Patrick Navarro photos.
You'll see alot of his pics from the Concord Jazz Festivals, from the 1970's

[@robertcarli1969]

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[@gennadidolzhenko3054]

Этот BAND напоминает оркестр ВМУ 1994-95гг.

[@robertcarli1969]

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[@roydeuvall4336]

So, nobody so far thought to mention that the great Alan Downey is on lead trumpet???

[@flycres415]

And the great Bobby Shew on a fantastic flugelhorn solo!

[@rdangelo]

Alan Downey on trumpet?

[@Gemashke]

+rdangelo Bobby Shew

[@joekaralunas5751]

Alan in the band somewhere

[@Glennquagmire1912]

shew and Downey

[@bconroy2]

@@Glennquagmire1912 Brian O'Flaherty is a lead player too. He was lead on Woody Herman's Live at Concord recording.

[@rayszymarek2920]

The ever loving Louie Bellson joined by a host of great musicians. Louie had the chops. Buddy had the chops Gene had the chops. In reality there are many many new drummers on the scene today but that charisma is not there. All the equipment drum sponsorship and method books are useless. You have to have the talent. Krupa Bellson Rich Max Roach Joe Morelo Jack Sperling Joe Jones Philly Joe Jones and those great jazz drummers really left the main drumming ingredients for all drummers.

[@davem9132]

Ray Szymarek Its rare seeing somebody with real chops these days~

[@robertcarli5803]

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