WEBB, WILLIAM

WEBB, WILLIAM (CHICK). Jazz drummer (10 February 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland; 16 June 1939 in Baltimore). He played drums as a child and joined a local boys' band when he was eleven years old. Later he played with riverboat bands. In 1925 he settled in New York, New York, where he played with Edgar Dowell . The next year he organized his own group, which over the years included Benny Carter, Garvin Bushell , Johnny Hodges , John Kirby, Hilton Jefferson , Edgar...