“I actually heard that Chicago was looking for a guitar player on the first day of the auditions through a friend of mine who happened to be working in the building where they were being held.” Howland contacted the band’s management only to be told that the audition was closed. “As...
Chicago opened for Jimi Hendrix after he saw you opening for Albert King at the Whisky a Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. What was that like? We had become almost like the new house band at the Whisky and big acts that were going through L.A. would go there on their night off to check...
After 30 years of living in South Florida, Rob “Wild Boar” Moore has returned to his hometown of Chicago where his career began as a Blues Guitar Player. From the age of 19 he was sitting in with Chicago’s greatest blues artists including Muddy Waters
Bill Pascrell, who died earlier this morning at the age of 87. He described Pascrell, who served in the House for 27 years and was mayor of Paterson. He earned a reputation as a “Jersey legend” and “a Prince of Paterson” who fought for the state. Share This...
FAREED HAQUE GROUP ♪ “Best World Guitarist”– Guitar Player Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards 2009 ♪ “Classical and jazz,… READ MORE DEE ALEXANDER with Chicago Soul Jazz Collective @ Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn Kevin Johnson11 months ago07 mins Chicago Soul Jazz Collective featuring Dee ...
Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop artists, has died at age 85, his family said Sunday (Feb. 6).
Terry Kath's death. But the transition actually began here, on an album that included the sticky-sweet ballad "If You Leave Me Now," a song that became Chicago's first No. 1, creating an insatiable record-label appetite for more Peter Cetera ballads. Kath died two years later. (DeRiso...
He has been called “The Bruce Springsteen of Israel.” But unlike the Boss, David Broza can sing in four languages and plays a mean flamenco guitar. David Broza joins us in conversation and performance. Emerging Rap Artist Taylor Bennett on Chicago Roots ...
Known for his blonde hair and well-trimmed mustache, Mull was born in Chicago, raised in Ohio and Connecticut. He studied art in Rhode Island and Rome. He combined his music and comedy in hip Hollywood clubs in the 1970s. "In 1976 I was a guitar player and sit-down comic...
The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest names in music under the guidance of their father, Joe Jackson, a steelworker and guitar player who supported his wife and nine children in Gary, Indiana. As the family's music careers took off, they relocated to California. ...