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

2012
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

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The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012)

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Biography Documentary

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

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

YOUR RATING

5Critic reviews

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The Savoy King

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Van Alexander

Self

Bruce Barnes

Barney Bigard
(voice)

Louie Bellson

Self
(archive footage)

Rocky Carroll

Narrator
(voice)

Billy Crystal

Mezz Mezzrow
(voice)

Tyne Daly

Helen Oakley Dance
(voice)

Keith David

Charles Buchanan
(voice)

Duke Ellington

Self
(archive footage)

Ella Fitzgerald

Self
(archive footage)

Andy Garcia

Mario Bauzá
(voice)

Dizzy Gillespie

Self
(archive footage)

Danny Glover

Count Basie
(voice)

Jeff Goldblum

Artie Shaw
(voice)

Corey Hawkins

Chick Webb
(voice)

Roy Haynes

Self

John Isaacs

Self

Janet Jackson

Ella Fitzgerald
(voice)

Gertrude Jeannette

Self

Director
- Jeff Kaufman
Writer
- Jeff Kaufman
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Ella Fitzgerald: What Chick did for me can never be repaid. Always thinking of others, always in pain, but no one knew it - he was the kind that comes along once every thousand years.