(MUSIC) WEBB CHICK Chick Webb and His Orchestra

Sale 2308 - Lot 495

Price Realized: $ 300

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(MUSIC.) WEBB, CHICK. Chick Webb and His Orchestra (supplied title.) Photograph 8 x 10 , with an oval inset of Webb; undecipherable initials in the negative in the lower left corner. [New York, circa 1936-1938

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William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-1939) was a jazz drummer and orchestra leader who was considered by his contemporaries to be an exceptional talent. His band was more or less the "house" band at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, and Webb and his wife virtually adopted Ella Fitzgerald who lived with them for a time. Sadly Webb became ill in 1938 and after a year of declining health passed away. His reported last words were "Sorry I've go to go."