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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Savoy king : Chick Webb & the music that changed America / directed by Jeff Kaufman.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Collective Eye Films, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

A documentary on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.

Subjects:

Webb, Chick -- Performances -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Basie, Count, 1904-1984.

Young, Lester, 1909-1959.

Hawkins, Coleman.

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.

Webb, Chick.

Fitzgerald, Ella.

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.

Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.) -- History.

Jazz -- 1931-1940 -- History and criticism.

Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.

African Americans -- Music.

Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Songs and music.

Swing (Music) -- History and criticism.

Dance orchestra music -- History and criticism.

Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.

African American musicians -- Biography.

Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Jazz dance -- United States -- History.

Jitterbug (Dance) -- United States -- History.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.

Segregation -- History -- 20th century -- Social aspects -- United States.

Lynching -- History -- 20th century -- Social aspects -- United States.

United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- History.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Kaufman, Jeff (Jeffrey), film director.

Carroll, Rocky, actor.

Crystal, Billy, actor.

Daly, Tyne, actor.

David, Keith, actor.

Collective Eye Films, publisher.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.

Wide screen.

Editor, Jamal El-Amin; production company, Floating World Pictures, Single Arrow Productions, SwingBud Films, The New Heritage Theater Group.

Rocky Carroll, Billy Crystal, Tyne Daly, Keith David, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Andy Garcia, Dizzy Gillespie.

DVD, wide screen.

Closed-captioned.

Other Number:

1352406833

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1001692

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 781.6509 Webb