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The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America

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Born poor in Baltimore, Chick Webb broke his back as a boy and faced life as hunchback dwarf afflicted with Spinal Tuberculosis. Someone suggested drumming as a kind of physical therapy, and Webb found his calling: running off to New York at only 16, he built the hottest jazz orchestra in America, whose home base was Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom, one of the rare places in America where Blacks and Whites could socialize together. The honor roll of artists discovered and mentored by Webb is extraordinary, but

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Partial Film Information

Director: Jeffrey Kaufman
Writer: Jeffrey Kaufman
Studio: Unknown
Cast: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Rocky Carroll, Bill Cosby

Release: 2012

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