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The story of Ella Fitzgerald’s remarkable debut, told in an excerpt from Stephanie Stein Crease’s “Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America.”
Stephanie Stein Crease is a jazz historian, author, editor, and former Senior Jazz Coordinator for the Jazz Arts Program, Manhattan School of Music. Her books include <i>Gil Evans: Out of the Cool </i>(ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award), and <i>Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz</i>, and, most recently, <i>Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America</i>. She was literary editor for the Grammy-awarded Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. She was a 2020 Scholar-in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, and 2018 Berger-Benny Car...
In celebration of Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday on April 25, WBGO hosts and staff recommend their favorite cuts by the legendary vocalist.
Sixty years ago the Ellington baritonist enjoyed a big band bonanza, commenting on Webb, Lunceford, Henderson and more
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A new biography reveals a detailed and nuanced picture of virtuoso drummer Chick Webb, the Baltimore-born band leader and popular music legend.