🎷 Saxophonist J.T. Brown gigged with legends Howlin’ Wolf and Elmore James but also played with an early version of Fleetwood Mac. Brown should be more well-known, and the Secret History of Chicago Music is here to help make it happen. | ✍️ Steve Krakow
Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
Black theater owner and entrepreneur Patrick Henry Chappelle formed the Rabbit’s Foot Company in Florida in 1900. He assembled five dozen or so Black performers to stage a touring musical comedy show called, which traveled by rail and played theaters as well as tents. Chappelle avoided describing “the Foots” as a minstrel show, for obvious reasons. After his death in 1911, though, a white businessman from Michigan, Fred Swift Wolcott, bought the production and began marketing it that way.
Brown recorded in Chicago with Roosevelt Sykes and St. Louis Jimmy Oden in 1945, and as far as I can tell, that session was his first—though I can’t be super confident about discographical information more than 70 years old for an artist who used at least half a dozen names. Brown’s raw saxophone stylings also graced late-40s sides by Washboard Sam and Memphis Jimmy Clark.
In 1951, Brown was signed to the brand-new United Records as Nature Boy Brown & His Blues Ramblers, and his first of three 78s for the label featured the local anthem “Windy City Boogie.” The instrumental jump-blues release did well enough that Brown put together a touring band that included trumpeter King Kolax. “J.T. and I worked together about five or six months,” Kolax told O’Neal. “We went to LaSalle, IL, Louisville, Montgomery, AL.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Chicago’s Oozing Wound change pace with their first grunge record - Chicago ReaderOn “We Cater to Cowards,” OozingWound work out the pain and confusion of the last few years with complex, dirgy, and dark lyrics and production. | ✍️ LucaCimarusti👇
Read more »
One of Chicago’s best singer-songwriters drops a new EP - Chicago Reader🎤 Izzy Olive's project Half Gringa releases an intimate new EP; indie-rock virtuosos Patter release debut cassette; aztecdinero throws a star-studded fundraiser for his in-progress romantic comedy. |✍️imLeor| JR1Nelson👇
Read more »
Caryl Churchill gets some love from Chicago theaters - Chicago Reader🎭 courtchicago and rhinofest celebrate British playwright Caryl Churchill in February; plus the end of First Folio and the non-Equity Jeff nominations are out! | ✍️ kerryreid
Read more »
'Bachelor’ Alum Sarah Herron and Dylan Brown’s Relationship TimelineSarah Herron met Dylan Brown after appearing on ‘The Bachelor’ and has since been open about their fertility struggles — timeline
Read more »
Texas Amber Alert issued for missing 1-year-old San Antonio girl Aviani BrownThe Texas Department of Safety is asking the public for help locating a little girl who has been missing from San Antonio since early Thursday morning.
Read more »