Louis Bellson Quintet

1955 studio album by Louis Bellson Quintet

Studio album by

Louis Bellson Quintet

Released

1955

Recorded

June 21, 1954
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Label

Norgran
MGN 1011

Producer

Norman Granz

Louis Bellson chronology

Skin Deep
(1953-54)

Louis Bellson Quintet
(1955)

Journey Into Love
(1954)

Concerto for Drums by Louis Bellson cover

Louis Bellson Quintet (also released as Concerto for Drums by Louis Bellson) is an album by American jazz drummer Louis Bellson featuring performances recorded in 1954 for the Norgran label.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars.^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Louis Bellson except as indicated

"Concerto for Drums" - 6:03
"Basically Speaking, Duvivier, That is" (George Duvivier) - 4:07
"Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 4:23
"The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:38
"Charlie's Blues" (Charlie Shavers) - 5:14
"I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:38
"Buffalo Joe" (Shavers) - 5:34
"Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf) - 8:35

Personnel

References

^ Norgran Records Catalog: 1000 series accessed December 15, 2015
^ ^a ^b Allmusic listing, accessdate December 15, 2015

Louie Bellson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums

Skin Deep (1953 & 1954)
Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
Journey into Love (with Buddy Baker, 1954)
The Driving Louis Bellson (1955)
Let's Call It Swing (1956 & 1957)
Drummer's Holiday (1956, 1957, & 1958)
Drumorama! (1957)
Music, Romance and Especially Love (1957)
The Brilliant Bellson Sound (1959)
Louis Bellson Swings Jule Styne (1960)
The Mighty Two (with Gene Krupa, 1963)
Explorations (with Lalo Schifrin, 1964)
Are You Ready for This? (with Buddy Rich, 1965)
Thunderbird (1965)
The Louis Bellson Explosion (1975)

Live albums

Louis Bellson at The Flamingo (1957)
Big Band Jazz from the Summit (1962)

Pearl Bailey (wife)

v t e Zoot Sims
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
Recordings with Al Cohn	From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974)
With Quincy Jones	This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956) The Birth of a Band! (1959) Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
With Gerry Mulligan	California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
With others	Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968) Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)