“Louie is the best person I ever met.” — Tony Bennett Louie Bellson, a band drummer who played with Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman, died after a lengthy bout with Parkinson’s disease. The 84 year-old Bellson started in the bands over 60 years ago and racked up 200 record albums. Not only that [...]

My good friend Dennis Davies from Calgary was a “poster child” for a drum company out of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, a small bump on the road as you leave Alberta on the way to Saskatoon. Canwood Drums were – and still are to a certain extent – shells that were built and finished by a farmer [...]