Tag Archives: 1975 in Chicago

Home music innovator DJ Colette was created Colette Marino in Chicago in 1975 — in age nine, she began monitoring classical vocal functionality, later learning painting and music on the Windy Town institution Lane Technology. In 1993 she started collaborating with Chicago home mainstay Lego, adding vocals for some of …

Southside Movement was a Chicago-based funk and spirit octet which recorded in the first ’70s. Comprised of vocalist Melvin Moore, guitarist Bobby Pointer, keyboardist Morris Beeks, bassist Ronald Simmons, drummer Willie Hayes, alto saxophonist Milton Johnson, trumpeter Stephen Hawkins, and trombonist Expenses McFarland, the group got its begin as the …

Younger brother of clarinetist Joe Marsala, Marty was a good journeyman trumpeter who was simply at his best when freewheeling Dixieland-oriented settings. He began being a drummer, playing in Chicago with groupings led by Crimson Feilen and Joe Bananas. Marsala turned to trumpet in the later 1920s. Although he gigged …