Ella Fitzgerald's auspicious debut on the national jazz scene with drummer/bandleader Chick Webb

The story of Ella Fitzgerald’s remarkable debut, told in an excerpt from Stephanie Stein Crease’s “Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America.”

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