Louie Bellson and His Big Band

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Summary: EI YI YI!
Review: Check out the reviews for this DVD under "Louis Bellson and His Big Band" under VHS. There are some more accurate reviews. I have the vhs but the DVD has got to be better. Duke Elligton like material. Great-Great-Great soloist. And then you have the talents of Louis Bellson who has made an art/living out of making other people sound great. No video can compare to a live setting (that is unless your in the wrong seat,in an acoustically inferior place, the ladies boufant in front of you smells like dead fish and the prices were a tad high, which in that case the video is way better, but on rare occasions when everything is perfect-no comparison.)

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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: The tunes are very weak; if these are Bellson's compositions, he has done much better than this. The band does not swing, mostly due to the uninspried arrangements.
This is Bellson in his prime, but playing far from his best.
There are some good solos by Geller,the Breckers, and Soloff.
Of all the great Bellson concerts that could have been filmed(especially with his West Coast Big Bands) why pick this one?