sounds of Chicago
Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Choir featuring Glenn Burleigh (guest director), Founder/Pastor Emeritus Rev. Clay Evans, then Current Pastor Rev. Reginald Sharpe, Minister of Music Lou Della Evans Reid, and Assistant Minister of Music Rev. Reginald McCracken, “Just for Who You Are” (G. Burleigh), live, Chicago, c. 1990s
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what’s new
Brandon Seabrook Utility Modern (BS, guitar, composition; Bill Frisell, guitar; Rashaan Carter, electric bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), “The Guitar Is a Weather Event, Even,” published 8/6/26
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last night, Chicago
what’s new(ish)
Swamp Dogg (1942-), “Knock Knock (Memories),” published 6/18/26
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two takes
Charles Albert Tindley (1851–1933), “Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There,” 1916
Washington Phillips (1880-1954), 1928
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James Cleveland (1931-1991) with the Angelic Choir, 1962
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yesterday, Chicago
what’s new
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone) & Luis Perdomo (piano), “El Día Que Me Quieras” (Alfredo Le Pera, Carlos Gardel), published yesterday
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sounds of New York
Patricia Brennan (vibraphone with electronics; compositions) with Pala Garcia (violin), Kyle Armbrust (viola), Michael Nicolas (cello) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Miles Okazaki (guitar), Kim Cass (bass), John Hollenbeck (drums), Arktureye (electronics), Eli Greenhoe (conductor), Of the Near and the Far (record release show), live, New York, 2025
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sounds of Chicago
Soul Stirrers (feat. Paul Foster, Jimmy Outler), “I’m A Pilgrim” (PF), “He’s Been A Shelter For Me” (PF), “I’m A Soldier” (JO), “He’ll Understand and Say ‘Well Done,'” “Listen To The Angels” (JO), live [TV Gospel Hour], Memphis, 1963
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yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet (JL, tenor saxophone; Julian Lage, guitar; Asante Santi Debriano, bass; Will Calhoun, drums), “Fanfare for Unity” (J. Lovano), live, Spain (San Sebastian), July 23, 2026
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yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois (Conservatory)
sounds of Chicago
There was a (happy) time, after this single’s release in 1975, when you couldn’t go to a Chicago blues bar—like, say, Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge on 43rd Street—without hearing this on the jukebox.
Syl Johnson (1936-2022), “Take Me to the River” (Al Green, Mabon [“Teenie”] Hodges), 1975
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other day, Vermont (covered bridge near Sharon [1879])
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Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters, “Messin’ with the Kid” (M. London), 1965
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