I spent quite a few of my earliest evenings on this planet inside the Cairo Supper Club. Located on Sheridan Road just north of Irving...

Chicago's Soul Saxophone Giant Jabbing, soaring, always sporting a soul-soaked edge, Gene “Daddy G” Barge’s tenor saxophone is as every...

The Yakety Sax Man Every major recording center had at least one resident saxophone wailer during the 1950s and early ‘60s whose socking...

Magic Sam and Freddy King were the Chicago West Side’s leading guitar slingers during the genre’s heyday. Eddy Clearwater was right there to