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“Rhythm Man,” “Last Call at Coogan’s,” “Dykette,” and “Retrospective.”
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“Rhythm Man,” “Last Call at Coogan’s,” “Dykette,” and “Retrospective.”
WBGO’s Lee Mergner talks with author Stephanie Stein Crease about ‘Rhythm Man’—her biography of drummer and bandleader Chick Webb.
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...
Legendary Drummer And Founding Member of Osibisa, Sol Amarfio Has Died