Perhaps Dean Martin. Lester Young. That’s about it. Almost NOBODY was cooler than Bill Bell back on the day! Whether as a gifted soloist on tuba or voice, or a member of perhaps the first all-star, low-brass section which included fellow greats: Gordon Pulis and Lewis Van Haney on tenor trombone and Alan Ostrander on bass trombone next to the inimitable Bell in the famed New York Philharmonic.