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LA Premiere Screening - The Savoy King: Chick Webb And The Music That Changed America at The Montalban Theatre
Courtesy of Jenna Stevens | Posted on March 29, 2018
Where
The Montalban Theatre
1615 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA
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When
Sun, April 15, 2018
2:00 pm
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Musicians
Chick Webb
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The first Hollywood showing of this Important documentary, featuring interviews and celebrity narrators, including Janet Jackson as Ella Fitzgerald, John Legend as Duke Ellington, plus Sunpie Barnes, Rocky Carroll, Billy Crystal, Andy Garcia, Tyne Daly, Keith David, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Ron Perlman, and Corey Hawkins as Chick Webb.
The Los Angeles Jazz Society has joined with the Ricardo Montalban Foundation in presenting the feature documentary “THE SAVOY KING – Chick Webb and the Music that changed America”. Produced by Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross of Floating World Pictures, the documentary details the life of the amazing young drummer and bandleader who impacted the world of big bands in the 30’s....