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Jazz
Chicago’s Jazz Age Melting Pot: Hot Jazz, Boogie Woogie & the Blues In the Twenties, Chicago’s South Side "bright-light" district "The Stroll" was the heart of the jazz scene. Peppered with nightclubs, pool halls, tattoo parlors, and vaudeville houses, it was home to the city’s 100,000 African Americans. During the day, the city was segregated, but at night differences between black and white became somewhat blurred. Chicago nightlife knew no boundaries, and the sound of jazz seemed to seep up out of the sidewalks.
November’s New & Recommended Jazz CDs by Bob Bernotas, Host of WNTI’s Just Jazz November’s new CD recommendations: Snow Road, Pieces of Old Sky, Psychedelic Blues, Detroit
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TTBOOK: Channeling Creativity Cartoonist Lynda Barry believes that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. James Othmer describes life in that center of American creativity, the advertising agency. Pattie Boyd was the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time. Geoffrey Colvin says great performance is within the grasp of anyone who’s willing to put in the right kind of practice.

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