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The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America

Year:

2013

Duration:

90 min

Genres:

Documentary | Biography

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Jeffrey Kaufman

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2013-12-01

Cast

Actor

Character

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Dizzy Gillespie (voice)

Van Alexander

Himself

Bruce Barnes

Barney Bigard (voice)

Louie Bellson

Himself (archive footage)

Rocky Carroll

Narrator (voice)

Bill Cosby

Chick Webb (voice)

Billy Crystal

Mezz Mezzrow (voice)

Tyne Daly

Helen Oakley Dance (voice)

Duke Ellington

Himself (archive footage)

Ella Fitzgerald

Herself (archive footage)

Andy Garcia

Mario Bauzá (voice)

Dizzy Gillespie

Himself (archive footage)

Danny Glover

Count Basie (voice)

Jeff Goldblum

Artie Shaw (voice)

Roy Haynes

Himself

John Isaacs

Himself

Janet Jackson

Ella Fitzgerald (voice)

Gertrude Jeannette

Herself

John Legend

Duke Ellington

Frankie Manning

Himself

Norma Miller

Herself

Ron Perlman

Gene Krupa (voice)

Eugene Robinson

Teddy McRae (voice)

Charlie Watts

Stanley Dance (voice)

Chick Webb

Himself (archive footage)

Joe Wilder

Himself

Quotes

Ella Fitzgerald: What Chick did for me can never be repaid. Always thinking of others, always in pain, but no one knew it - he was the kind that comes along once every thousand years.