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Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
Pages in category "Jazz musicians from Chicago" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Buddy Guy's Legends is a blues club in Chicago, Illinois. It was opened in 1989 by blues musician Buddy Guy [1] [2] who still owns the club and makes regular appearances, performing a month of shows each January. [3] [4] Legends is one of the few blues clubs left in Chicago, a city renowned for its own particular brand of blues.
Until 2009, he was the host of the Ramsey Lewis Morning Show on the Chicago radio station WNUA. Lewis was also active in musical education in Chicago. He founded the Ramsey Lewis Foundation, established the Ravinia's Jazz Mentor Program, and served on the board of trustees for the Merit School of Music and The Chicago High School for the Arts.
Upon his return to Chicago in 1955, Wright performed in the local jazz scene in clubs and in 1960 began to record for the Prestige label producing a total of five albums for the label between 1960 and 1962. [3] Wright continued to perform on the Chicago club scene and worked as a librarian at the Cook County Jail from the mid-1980s until 1999.
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Clark Terry (Jazz Alliance, 1994) Mellow Moods (Prestige, 1994) Big Band Basie with Frank Wess (Reference, 1995) The Second Set: Recorded Live at the Village Gate (Chesky, 1995) Clark Terry with Peewee Claybrook and Swing Fever (D'Note, 1995) Live in Chicago Vol. 1 (Monad, 1995) Live in Chicago Vol. 2 ...
The AllMusic review gave the album five stars, stating: "Gambit Records issued all 19 tracks from the Pershing engagements on one CD, bringing before the public a body of work that two generations of jazz heads had gathered piecemeal on Argo and Chess LPs or various partial CD reissues. Tacked on to this historical edition is an edited version ...