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Official YouTube Channel for the film:"THE SAVOY KING: Chick Webb & The Music That Changed America".
The opening titles from the documentary THE SAVOY KING: CHICK WEBB AND THE MUSIC THAT CHANGED AMERICA. With Corey Hawkins as the voice of Chick Webb, John Le...
- 1 min
- 1499
- Jeff Kaufman
"THE SAVOY KING: Chick Webb & The Music That Changed America" (Now in post-production) A feature documentary on Swing-era drummer-bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom. Produced in partnership… + More
Jun 5, 2012 · The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America: Directed by Jeff Kaufman. With Van Alexander, Bruce Barnes, Louie Bellson, Rocky Carroll. A documentary on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Jeff Kaufman
- 2012-06-05
Jun 6, 2012 · Shot in Los Angeles, June 2012
- 28 min
- 4.9K
- DP/30: The Oral History Of Hollywood
Featuring interviews with those who knew or played with Webb, great period footage, as well as a firm sense of social and cultural history, THE SAVOY KING is a meditation on the transformative power of art as well as a monument to a great American artist.
Someone suggested drumming as physical therapy, and Webb found his calling: at only 16 he built the hottest jazz orchestra in America at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom, one of the rare places where Blacks and Whites could socialize together.
- 92 min
