Jazz

Chick Webb, the Savoy King

Before Chick Webb died in 1939 at the age of 30, he established himself as a model for jazz drumming and his band as a gold standard of swing that humbled even Count Basie and Benny Goodman. In ...
Jazz

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chick Webb

All About Jazz is celebrating Chick Webb's birthday today! “The King of the Savoy” reigned supreme over jazz drummers in New York in the 1930’s. He was the consummate showman and with his fluid and ...
The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore-born Chick Webb’s amazing life in jazz — and early death

My memory got me in trouble last week when I wrote that the great song stylist Ella Fitzgerald was married to the Baltimore-born band leader and drummer Chick Webb. I was wrong. He was married to ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Ella Fitzgerald's Early Years Collected In A Chick Webb Box Set

"This is it," Webb said of Fitzgerald. "I have a real singer now. That's what the public wants." Ella Fitzgerald's Early Years Collected In A Chick Webb Box Set Drummer Chick Webb's 1930s orchestra ...
The Baltimore Sun

History repeating itself: After community organizes, Baltimore’s Chick Webb Recreation Center poised for overhaul

On his deathbed, William Henry “Chick” Webb asked his friend and physician, Dr. Ralph J. Young, to carry out the dream he wouldn’t live to see: Raise money for a recreation center for Black children ...