In the late 1980s, Club Dreamerz on Milwaukee Avenue marked Wicker Park’s transition from old immigrant neighborhood to trendy tech hub.
Category Archives: Music
Dinosaur (outgoing 18)
With the help of festivals like the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Cajun music saw a revival in the 1960s and 70s. Many of the voices from this revival were captured in Les Blank’s poetic J’ai Été Au Bal and Alan Lomax’s more historical Cajun Country.
I am sweating
For the AACM 20th anniversary celebration, Cecil Taylor performed at Mandel Hall with Roscoe Mitchell, Douglas Ewart, Malachi Favors and Steve McCall. After the concert he recorded a station ID for WHPK.
TV is Depressing Me
The Polk-A-Lay-Lee was a ukulele like instrument created for Polk Brothers Electronics in 1965. One could buy it for five dollars with the purchase of a tape recorder or TV.
I Love Y’all
Scholars debate the origins of the term y’all. It’s usage typically but not always marks one as from the South.
Paul Mason Fotsch 