When Chick Webb – the nationally famous swing-era jazz drummer whose “Stompin’ at the Savoy” was defined by long and furious riffs that drove crowds wild – died in 1939, his obituary in The Evening ...

"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 King of Swing in the 1930s wasn't Benny Goodman or Count Basie. It was Chick Webb. The drummer fielded, managed and drove one of the best dance bands in the country and held court at New York's ...

When documentarian Jeff Kaufman set out to produce a film on Swing era drummer Chick Webb six years ago, he had no idea the wealth of findings he would come across. “Up until the very end,” Kaufman ...

"Swing is here to stay." That was the verdict handed down last night by Harlem's Chick Webb, whose orchestra is currently at Levaggi's uptown Flamingo Room, and Ella Fitzgerald, his nineteen year old ...

Hear two versions of Ella's 1938 smash, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket." The first was recorded in 1938 by the Chick Webb Orchestra. The later version was from a 1973 Newport Jazz Festival concert at New York's ...

William Henry “Chick” Webb lived only 34 years, but in that short time he left an indelible, multi-layered legacy to American music and cast a giant shadow over the history of jazz — particularly to ...

Thanks to Stephanie Stein Crease’s new biography of virtuoso drummer Chick Webb, the Baltimore-born band leader and popular music legend, we now have a detailed and nuanced picture of his amazing life ...

Before she became the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald was a young girl with a dream and determination who overcame extraordinary odds. Acclaimed chanteuse Amanda King shares Ella Fitzgerald’s ...

Drummer Chick Webb's 1930s orchestra terrorized competitors in band battles and sent dancers into orbit at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. They could be similarly explosive on record, but only rarely. Early ...