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.

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