ROCK FALLS, Ill. (KWQC) - The Bellson Music Fest returns for its fourth year, honoring the legacy of Louie Bellson, the world-renowned drummer and Rock Falls native on June 7. This is a free, all ...

Those events include: the 4th annual "Bellson" Music Festival honoring Rock Falls native and legendary drummer Louie Bellson Saturday June 7, "Sick-The Magazine Block Party" June 19, the "Touch ...

ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Rock Falls is honoring one of what it calls its most legendary natives. World-renowned jazz drummer, composer and educator Louie Bellson was born in Rock Falls and grew up in ...

World-renowned jazz drummer, composer and educator Louie Bellson was born in Rock Falls and grew up in the Quad Cities area. Gov. Whitmer Responds as Trump Considers Kidnap Plot Pardon Kool & the ...

While his first three CD’s have met with success, and have enabled him to make a mark on the national jazz scene, these are but the latest moves in a 25-year career for pianist, composer, and arranger ...

Apr. 5—ROCK FALLS — The fourth annual Bellson Music Fest will be Saturday, June 7, in Rock Falls. The music festival kicks off with a drum clinic from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the McCormick ...

Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie ...

Internationally-acclaimed drummer, bandleader and composer Louie Bellson was alive from 1924 to 2009. He performed on more than 200 albums and wrote more than 1,000 compositions.

ROCK FALLS, Ill. — You are invited to the third annual Bellson Music Fest, celebrating legendary musician Louie Bellson's 100th birthday, in Rock Falls on Saturday, June 8. The free, all-day ...

Ben soon became noted in the early stages of his career for his inventively bustling, hard-blowing tenor in numbers such as Cotton Tail with Ellington in 1940. In mid-career, on albums such as this, ...

East Side Suite (Louie Bellson and his Jazz Orchestra; Musicmaster). Strong soloing from the likes of Clark Terry on flugelhorn and tenor saxophonist Don Menza help make this big band album a pleas… ...