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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Oct 23, 2020
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The Artistics belong in the top tier of Chicago soul and R&B

They could match the quality of the Impressions and the Chi-Lites, but not their chart success.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Artistics, soul, R&B, Chi-Lites, Impressions, Five Stairsteps, Curt Thomas, Larry Johnson, Jesse Bolian, Aaron Floyd, Robert Dobyne, Major Lance, The Monkey Time, Life Begins at Sixteen, One Way, S&G Records, Carl Davis, Okeh Records, I Need Your Love, What’ll I Do, Brunswick Records, Get My Hands on Some Lovin’, Marvin Gaye, Charles Davis, Marvin Smith, Patty Cake, Curtis Mayfield, This Heart of Mine, Barrett Strong, Loveland, I’m Gonna Miss You, Tommy Green, Girl I Need You, Hard to Carry On, You Left Me, The Articulate Artistics, What Happened, Eugene Record, Fred Pettis, Morris Williams, Make My Life Over (I Want You To), Willie Henderson, She's Heaven, Look Out I'm Gonna Get You, Look Out, Motorcity Records, Outta Sight, This Heart of Mine, So Much Love in My Heart, Video

Music, Music Feature Jul 23, 2020
Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world

The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.
- By the Arts & Business Council of Chicago
- Tags: Music Feature, A&BC, Arts & Business Council of Chicago, #ChiMusic35, #ChiMusic35 Challenge, #ChiMusic35 Ambassadors, Cadien Lake James, Damon Locks, Martin Atkins, Vince Lawrence, Rhymefest, Sima Cunningham, Lori Branch, Add-2, Pugs Atomz, Jeff Baraka, Mark Bazer, Ayana Contreras, Leor Galil, Pat Grumley, Mark Kelly, DJ Lady D, Rob McKay, Tim Samuelson, Wayne Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Common, Sun Ra, Grupo Montéz de Durango, Phuture, Acid Tracks, Bo Diddley, Chess Records, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Rufus, Nat “King” Cole, Eddie Cole’s Solid Swingers, Jim Nash, Dannie Flesher, Wax Trax! Records, Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, Kanye West, Ma Rainey, Paramount, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, YouMedia Center, Vee-Jay Records, Jesse Saunders, house, drill, gospel, jazz, blues, footwork, Buddy Guy, Pitchfork Media, Ramsey Lewis, Duranguense, Earth, Wind & Fire, Mahalia Jackson, Thomas A. Dorsey, Impressions, Curtis Mayfield, Soul Train, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Frankie Knuckles, Chance the Rapper, Muddy Waters

Music, Music Feature Oct 23, 2019
Summoning the ghosts of Record Row

For two decades, a short stretch of Michigan Avenue hosted a concentration of creative entrepreneurship whose influence on Black popular music is still felt today.
- By Aaron Cohen
- Tags: Music Feature, Record Row, soul, R&B, blues, gospel, jazz, Move On Up, Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power, Michigan Avenue, Roosevelt, Cermak, Chess Records, Cadet Concept, Brunswick Records, Vee-Jay Records, Constellation Records, Mama Batt’s Restaurant, Jerry Butler’s Songwriters Workshop, Jerry Butler, Garmisa Distributing Company, One-derful Records, Otis Clay, Alvin Cash, Jackson 5, King Records, Curtom Records, Motor Row, WVON, Universal Recording, Ebony, Willie Dixon, Blues Heaven Foundation, Jackie Ross, Mitty Collier, Fontella Bass, Raynard Miner, Rescue Me, Louis Satterfield, Terry Callier, the Dells, Rotary Connection, Peace, Occasional Rain, Freedom Means, Charles Stepney, M.S. Distributing, Ron Alexenburg, Columbia Records, the Jacksons, Michael Jackson, Vivian Carter, James Bracken, Beatles, Carl Davis, Dakar, Jimmy Reed, Staple Singers, Swan Silvertones, Wayne Shorter, Impressions, Betty Everett, Gene Chandler, Shirley Wahls, Chi-Lites, Barbara Acklin, Jackie Wilson, Tyrone Davis, Willie Henderson, Thomas “Tom Tom” Washington, Sonny Sanders, Argo Singers, Ewart Abner, Curtis Mayfield, Just Be True, Motown, Stevie Wonder, Mar-V-Lus, George Leaner, Ernie Leaner, Halo, Five Du-Tones, Shake a Tail Feather, Ray Charles, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Larry Wade, The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind), Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy, Independents, Leaving Me, Natalie Cole, Richard Steele, Marshall Chess, Leonard Chess

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jul 30, 2019
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Johnny Pate is one of the great unsung architects of Chicago soul

This 95-year-old living legend has played jazz, written blaxploitation soundtracks, and arranged for Stan Getz, B.B. King, and most famously Curtis Mayfield—but he's probably most widely heard via hip-hop samples.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Johnny Pate, arranger, composer, producer, bassist, R&B, soul, jazz, John William Pate, Chicago Heights, Oscar Pettiford, Stuff Smith, Jay-Z, Red Saunders, Club DeLisa, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Carl Davis, OKeh Records, Brunswick Records, Impressions, Sad, Sad Girl and Boy, Curtis Mayfield, Super Fly, We're a Winner, Keep on Pushing, ABC-Paramount, Betty Everett, B.B. King, Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, MGM/Verve, Brother on the Run, Bucktown, Shaft in Africa, Bee Gees, Peabo Bryson, Natalie Cole, Las Vegas, Video

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The Artistics belong in the top tier of Chicago soul and R&B

They could match the quality of the Impressions and the Chi-Lites, but not their chart success.

Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world

The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.

Summoning the ghosts of Record Row

For two decades, a short stretch of Michigan Avenue hosted a concentration of creative entrepreneurship whose influence on Black popular music is still felt today.

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Johnny Pate is one of the great unsung architects of Chicago soul

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Video The Artistics belong in the top tier of Chicago soul and R&B

They could match the quality of the Impressions and the Chi-Lites, but not their chart success.

Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world

The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.

Summoning the ghosts of Record Row

For two decades, a short stretch of Michigan Avenue hosted a concentration of creative entrepreneurship whose influence on Black popular music is still felt today.

Video Johnny Pate is one of the great unsung architects of Chicago soul

This 95-year-old living legend has played jazz, written blaxploitation soundtracks, and arranged for Stan Getz, B.B. King, and most famously Curtis Mayfield—but he's probably most widely heard via hip-hop samples.

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The Artistics belong in the top tier of Chicago soul and R&B

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Johnny Pate is one of the great unsung architects of Chicago soul