Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues

A good idea of fusion

by James M. Manheim

posted 6/1/2005

Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues was born in 1966, when Chicago Symphony summer conductor Seiji Ozawa, his Beatlesque hairstyle then a distinct novelty in the orchestral world, announced a desire to bring classical music and Chicago blues together. Siegel, the harmonica wizard behind the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band, has periodically revisited the concept ever

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