Twenty-Five (Or -Six) Minutes Before Four In The Morning.

NotQuiteCohen
TimeVille


When I was a teenaged kid, and just starting to pay attention to popular music as punk started to break, the band formerly known as the Chicago Transit Authority was so prolific and ubiquitous that their music seemed like wall paper.

And sometimes, like with the infamous and very popular compilation Chicago IX, which was released in 1975, it seemed like all the walls, in every single house everywhere, were being re-papered with, well, the same paper.

Anyway...

That particular compilation is 50 years old now, which means that it is being re-worked and re-released seven ways to Sunday.

But now, somehow, that old wallpaper is kind of comforting, and even a little bit interesting when you see and hear it done in more of a jam bandish-type way (see above).

And best of all, it means that two of the original horn players, Lee Loughnane and Jimmy Pankow are out and about talking about how they all got together at DePaul university and made all that music in the first place. They even talk a bit about the magic and the math of how the original horn arrangements were composed in a way that even a music theory dunderhead like myself can understand and enjoy.

You can listen to a long form conversation with Mess'rs Lougnane and Pankow...Here.


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Tangential allusion to an ear worm in the subheader, especially given that we're not that far from the 'end of December?...This!


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