Performance

Music of Chicago

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“Music of Chicago” frames Chicago as a Midwestern hub where modern blues traditions and later dance-floor innovations took root, then follows how that legacy traveled outward through radio, touring circuits, and cover bands. At City Winery NYC, Leonid + Friends’ “Celebrating the Music of Chicago” treats the group Chicago’s rock-pop songbook as ensemble writing, built on interlocking horns and layered vocals. There is no specific NYC premiere history attached to the song, but its presence here reflects New York’s long habit of re-hearing American regional music in a listening-room context. The most telling detail is the emphasis on precision, which reveals how much of this repertoire is arrangement rather than attitude.