Music of Chicago New York Performances

“Music of Chicago” traces a lineage from a Midwestern city that helped shape modern blues and later dance-floor innovations, then follows that influence into rock and pop arrangements built around horns and close harmony. At City Winery NYC, Leonid + Friends presents its “Celebrating the Music of Chicago” program as a careful, listening-room reading of the band Chicago’s catalog. New York has long functioned as a proving ground for touring repertory acts, and this set lands as a study in craft rather than spectacle. One clear takeaway is how durable these arrangements remain when the brass is treated as the lead voice.