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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
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- 2012-06-05
Official YouTube Channel for the film:"THE SAVOY KING: Chick Webb & The Music That Changed America"
Sep 30, 2012 · Film (2012) Written and directed by Jeff Kaufman. New York Film Festival. Walter Reade Theater. New York, NY. Moe Gale, owner of The Savoy Ballroom, with Chick Webb. A view into the life of Chick Webb, the amazingly talented, dwarfed and hunchbacked, drummer and bandleader who ran the show at The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early half of ...
"THE SAVOY KING: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America" THE SAVOY KING is a feature documentary about the Swing-era drummer-bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. CLIP: "Chick Webb Vignette" Interviews with Norma Miller, Louis Bellson and Joe Wilder, among others! Produced by Jeff Kaufman of Floating World ...
Oct 16, 2012 · At the age of 17, Webb was dubbed bandleader by Duke Ellington, and when he was 18, his band became the official Savoy house ensemble. At 24 he became the first black orchestra leader with a ...
Watch on YouTube. About the filmmaker. The Savoy Ballroom was the home of the amazing Lindy Hop dancers, and the first venue in America where Blacks and Whites could dance and socialize together. Chick Webb virtually invented modern drumming and built the hottest Swing orchestra of the 1930s - the "house band" of The Savoy Ballroom.
