This type was extraordinary, louie bellson had an impressive drumming very fluid and a sense of unheard swing, here presented with a small training of 6 titles (quintet) to "Fascinatin rhtyhmn" of gershwin and especially "percussionistically speaking" that opens album or louie out all the stops to ballets and rods, and 4 titles with a big band (harry edison has the trumpet, benny housing and willie smith barney kessel the alto sax was the guitar, just ac) with one of his headlines "skin deep" true jazz demonstration battery or machine louie bellson is tireless, recorded in 1953 and 1954 for norman granz productions of 2 lps "the amazing artistry of louie bellson" and "the exciting mr bellson" the publisher had the good idea to compile a CD with a nice remastering, a sublime album of the series of "verve elite".