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02693aam a2200337 i 4500 001 8E79A520495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230902011803 008 221104s2023 nyua bk 001 0beng 010 $a 2022053532 020 $a 0190055693 020 $a 9780190055691 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 082 00 $a 786.9092 082 00 $a B $2 23/eng/20221104 100 1 $a Stein Crease, Stephanie, $e author. 245 10 $a Rhythm man : $b Chick Webb and the beat that changed America / $c Stephanie Stein Crease. 264 1 $a New York, NY, United States of America : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiv, 346 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 0 $a Oxford cultural biographies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-321), discography (pages 323-328), and index. 520 $a "Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America is the first complete biography of William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-1939), the innovative father of modern jazz drumming and a leading bandleader of the Swing Era, whose band and music thrilled dancers and audiences across the country. Webb was born in East Baltimore and had chronic spinal tuberculosis as a child, leaving him only four feet tall with a hump on his back. He moved to Harlem in 1925, in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and, thanksto Duke Ellington, formed a jazz dance band that expanded and became resident band at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in the early 1930s. The Savoy, the "World's Most Famous Ballroom," was the trendsetting place for advances in jazz and the dance that evolved along with swing music, the Lindy Hop. In 1935 Webb hired unknown teenage singer Ella Fitzgerald; by 1937 they topped polls and radio charts, and in the next two years packed theaters and ballrooms across the country, breaking through racial barriers. Webb'sband was in the era's most legendary band battles, with Benny Goodman and Count Basie. His life was cut short tragically, and he died in June 1939, age 34, of complications from his chronic disease, at the height of his band's national popularity"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Webb, Chick. 650 0 $a Drummers (Musicians) $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jazz musicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Band directors $z United States $v Biography. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Stein Crease, Stephanie. $t Rhythm man $d New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023] $z 9780190055714 $w (DLC) 2022053533 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011715.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E79A520495811EE9228709642ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search