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Studs Terkel

Through his radio interviews and books, Louis “Studs” Terkel continues to be called “the Walt Whitman of the air waves” and described himself as “a guerrilla journalist having a tape recorder.” Although Terkel was connected with Chicago, he was created in NEW YORK on, may 16, 1912, the 3rd boy …

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Pete Allen

b. 23 November 1953, Newbury, Berkshire, Britain. Although Allen provides chosen to check out the well-trodden route of various other UK jazz traditionalists such as for example Freddie Randall and Kenny Ball, he provides were able to maintain originality through a combined mix of musical flair and perseverance. His liquid, …

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John Young

A longtime fixture from the Chicago bop picture — and criminally underappreciated beyond it — pianist John Young collaborated with jazz giants which range from Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald to Dexter Gordon throughout a profession spanning a lot more than six years. Delivered March 16, 1922 in Small Rock, …

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Chico Banks

Alongside Bernard Allison, Melvin Taylor and a small number of others, guitarist, singer and songwriter Chico Banking institutions is area of the brand-new generation of Chicago blues players who are growing the boundaries of the frequently maligned, misunderstood music. Like Allison and Taylor, and also older Southern music artists like …

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Bloodiest

Chicago’s Bloodiest can be an experimental extreme music sextet whose associates come from a bunch of well-known Windy Town rings. Guitarists Tony Lazzara (Atombombpocketknife) and Eric Chaleff (Sterling) — made a decision to compose songs for a power electric guitar duo and started playing reside in night clubs. They’d always …

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Disappears

Carving out an area somewhere in the center of garage area punk snarl, shoegaze haze, and Krautrock grooves, Chicago’s Disappears feature Brian Court case (also from the Ponys and 90 Day Guys), Boas associates Graeme Gibson and Jonathan van Herik, and Damon Carruesco. The music group began when Case’s various …

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