The Chick Webb Orchestra became the house band at the Savoy in 1931 and pioneered the swing style geared for keeping dancers on the floor. He began recording in the late 1920s, and by 1931, he was a ...

Before Chick Webb died in 1939 at the age of 30, he established himself as a model for jazz drumming and his band as a gold standard of swing that humbled even Count Basie and Benny Goodman. In ...

Ella Fitzgerald made singing feel like thinking ... Fitzgerald earned a chance to sing for the drummer Chick Webb, an ...