Vinyl records

Chick Webb vinyl records

2 albums with 26 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

William Henry Webb. American jazz drummer and bandleader. Born February 10, 1905 in Baltimore, MD, USA. Died June 16, 1939 in Baltimore, MD, USA. Prominent drummers such as Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, & George Wettling hailed Chick Webb as the best and most influencial of all the Big Band drummers. He was born with a physical deformity described as TB of the spine. To earn money for his first set of drums at age 11 he worked as a newsboy. By the early 1920s he was playing drums on excursion boats in Baltimore Harbor. He moved to New York where he freelanced. He played with and became lifelong friends with Duke Ellington . Webb formed his first small band in 1926.