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Chicago is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1967. The group began calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority (after the city's mass transit agency) in 1968, then shortened the name in 1969. Self-described as a "rock and roll band with horns," their songs often also combine elements of classical music, jazz, R&B, and pop music.
In 1967, Chicago musicians Walter Parazaider, Terry Kath, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera formed a group with one dream, to integrate all the musical diversity from their beloved city and weave a new sound, a rock ‘n’ roll band with horns.
Dec 17, 2015 · I don’t want to say they were prog rock, but they were exactly how they describe themselves: they were rock and roll with horns. They were a rock band, and they were experimental, and you could...
It is worth noting that just as Chicago was coming together as the Big Thing in early 1967, the Electric Flag was also pioneering its own concept of a rock band with horns. Shortly after the release of its debut album in April 1969, the band received a cease-and-desist order from the actual Chicago Transit Authority.
Feb 14, 2018 · But, their softer sound was probably why it took Chicago until 2016 to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Despite the success of Chicago, “Horn Rock” (or “Brass Rock”) never developed into a major category of Rock & Roll.
Replay. MUST WATCH. That time the band opened for Jimi Hendrix. Awkward: Chicago meets rock icon Janis Joplin. Chicago's horn section struggled for attention. Producer David Foster changes...
Aug 29, 2012 · Keyboardist and vocalist Robert Lamm has been a key architect and founding member of the “rock and roll band with horns” which would come to be known as Chicago. In the early years of the group,...
