Chick Webb
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2011-08-12T18:41:57Z
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Chick Webb grew up on Madison and Ashland Avenue on Baltimore's east side. He was a sickly child who, unable to attend school, started drumming with anything he could get his hands on to divert himself from his illness. His career was a study in beating the odds. He bought his first set of drums with money he made selling the Afro-American on Gay and Aisquith streets. Webb's personality reached over the footlights to every individual in the audience.
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From "The Storm is Passing Over" online exhibit
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African American musicians., Musicians--Maryland--Baltimore.