The Chick Webb Memorial Recreation Center, located in East Baltimore, is set for a $20 million redevelopment. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved a loan guarantee of ...

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 ...

Vivid archival clips of Harlem in the '30s illuminate "The Savoy King," Jeff Kaufman's lively portrait of bandleader/drummer Chick Webb, whose music intersected with and rivaled that of jazz's most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Root) — Celebrating the world of swing, The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America revisits the music’s heyday through the life and legacy of Chick Webb, the house-band leader ...

“Music is a universal combiner,” says Dr. Muriel Petioni, the mother of Harlem medicine, in the first few measures of Jeff Kaufman’s spirited window into the culture of the Harlem music and dance ...

JANINE. THAT’S RIGHT. THE GROUNDBREAKING ON THIS NEARLY $21 MILLION RENOVATION PROJECT JUST WRAPPING UP AND THE WORK IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY, GIVING THIS HISTORIC BUILDING A 21ST CENTURY ...

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 ...

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 ...