This Grateful Dead leader was named after "Show Boat" composer Jerome Kern
[DOC] [TLE] ON THE TOWN WITH CHIP DEFFAA.... Oct. 31st 2015 ... [PAR] Oct 31, 2015 ... With his longtime collaborator, composer John Kander, Ebb helped ... the driven, 
angst-filled leader of the group, and he's never been better.