"Stompin’ at the Savoy," Chick Webb and His Orchestra (1934)
"Stompin’ at the Savoy," Chick Webb and His Orchestra (1934)
Before his twentieth birthday, drummer Chick Webb began leading a band at the Savoy Ballroom. The Savoy was an enormous club, taking up an entire city block. Cat’s Corner—the name of the area...
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Before his twentieth birthday, drummer Chick Webb began leading a band at the Savoy Ballroom. The Savoy was an enormous club, taking up an entire city block. Cat’s Corner—the name of the area beside the bandstand—was where the best dancers would attempt to pull off their best moves, such as the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the Fox Trot, and—of course—the Lindy Hop. “Stompin’ at the Savoy” featured Webb’s band performing the classic composition by Edgar Sampson. Text by James Saltzman, Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
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- Book, The Savoy Cocktail Book
- printed paperboard binding, gilt-lettered cloth spine.
- Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library, TX951.C76 1930.
- 43.2016.17
