When Drummers Speak of Chick Webb, They Use Tones of Reverence

Finally, we have a much-needed cradle-to-grave narrative of this elusive but crucial figure in jazz history, who died in 1939 at age 34.

Via Oxford University Press
Chick Webb on the cover of ‘Rhythm Man,’ detail. Via Oxford University Press

‘Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America’
By Stephanie Stein Crease
Oxford University Press; Oxford Cultural Biographies

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