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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.
Artie Matthews was born in Braidwood, Illinois; his family moved to Springfield, Illinois in his youth. He learned to play piano, mostly popular songs and light classics, until he heard ragtime played by a pianist named Banty Morgan about 1905.
"Green Mill Garden Blues", 1920 – composer: unknown (88 key piano roll) "Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833–Chicago–1933" – composer & lyricist: George D. Gaw; transcriber & arranger: Frank Barden "Growing Up" – Fall Out Boy, from Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend, 2003 "Guren no Yumiya" - NateWantsToBattle
5. ‘Piano Man’ by Billy Joel. 1973 Based on his experiences as a piano player in a Los Angeles bar, Billy Joel recorded “Piano Man” in 1973, the title track to his second album.
Chicago was the first important center of jazz as it left the city of its birth, New Orleans, Louisiana.The name jazz (and its early variations jass or jas) may have first been applied to the music in Chicago in the 1910s, as such hot New Orleans bands as Tom Brown's made a hit up north.
Rock music portal; Chicago portal; Illinois portal; 2005 in music; Culture of Chicago "Cum On Feel the Noize" – a 1973 hard rock song by Slade that inspired the full title of the album; Donald Glover, who remixed the album as Illin'-Noise! under the name mc DJ; Greetings from Cairo, Illinois – a 2005 album from Stace England about Cairo ...
Waldman was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 8, 1955. [1] Waldman began playing piano at age five at which time he was considered a child prodigy. [3] He was hired to demonstrate pianos at a local piano store at age 12. While in high school, he performed with the Northwestern University Jazz band. [4]
Wilderness Road was a rock band founded in 1968 by musicians Warren Leming, Nate Herman, and relatives Andy and Tom Haban. [3] [4] [5] The group, which performed an elaborate stage show, drew on American folklore, and was active in the Anti-War, and Peace Movements of the late Sixties and early Seventies central to Chicago's counterculture movement of the period.