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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.
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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
Jimmie Noone (April 23, 1895 – April 19, 1944) [1] was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. After beginning his career in New Orleans, he led Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, a Chicago band that recorded for Vocalion and Decca.
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]
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.
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.