Tag Archives: 2014 in Chicago

Before becoming among Chicago’s hottest electric blues guitarists, Michael Coleman began his career playing together with James Cotton for pretty much ten years. The guitarist became a member of Cotton’s music group in 1979 at age 23. For another seven years, he continued to be by Cotton’s part before eventually …

When singer/songwriter and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy in the beginning began focusing on his first solo album, he began demoing and rehearsing the tunes aware of his son Spencer about drums. Although he envisioned it mainly as a single task, as Spencer became increasingly more involved it had been decided …

Among the DJs on the forefront from the fast and furious design of home music referred to as footwork, DJ Rashad (Rashad Harden) was created in Chicago and raised in the city’s suburb of Calumet Town. A young enthusiast of Chicago’s banging make of home music referred to as ghettohouse, …

Harold Ramis’ most recognizable state to fame was staked in starring in the favorite Ghostbusters series as well as the film Stripes, which he co-wrote. He was a encounter to remember through the 1980s, but in fact had a lot more composing credits to his name. Using the strike movies …

The person many call the godfather of home, Frankie Knuckles began DJing in NY in the first ’70s while still an adolescent, years prior to the disco boom which became the first flowering of contemporary dance music. A decade afterwards he is at Chicago, piecing together megamixes of outdated disco …

Venerated contemporary composer and pianist Lee Hyla was the concentrate of several awards, grants, and commissions for a number of decades. Hyla was created in Niagara Falls, NY and elevated in Greencastle, Indiana. He remaining Indiana for NY to study structure at SUNY Stony Brook with David Lewin, and continued …