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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.
Founded in Chicago, Cheap Trick plans to open a music complex on Motor Row in Chicago's South Loop [22] The Chi-Lites: 1959: present: R&B soul vocal quartet Founded in Chicago Chicago: 1967: present: Rock band Founded in Chicago Cobalt & the Hired Guns: 2003: Punk rock band Based in Chicago [23] Disturbed: 1994: present: Heavy metal band ...
Joe Daley (July 30, 1918 – March 5, 1994) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and music teacher. Daley was part of the Chicago jazz scene for 40 years. Musicians who studied with Daley include Grammy winners David Sanborn and Paul Winter, Emmy winner James DiPasquale, Richard Corpolongo, Chuck Domanico, and John Kl
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.
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.
His music has been described as "wonderfully swinging and dramatic" featuring a "large rich sound". [9] "Vonski", as he was known by his jazz fans, was selected to receive the nation's highest jazz honor, the NEA Jazz Masters award. [10] Freeman died of heart failure on August 11, 2012, in his home town, at the age of 88. [11]
Sullivan was born May 1, 1931, in Washington, D.C.. [3] His father taught him to play the trumpet beginning at age 3 1 ⁄ 2, and his mother taught him saxophone.He played in 1950s Chicago with such musicians as Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Wardell Gray and Roy Eldridge, gaining a reputation as a fearsome bebop soloist.