Chicago native Peter Berkow has been a producer and a professor, and moved from folk to funk to fusion to prog and back.
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Musical and literary polymath Thom Bishop has a second career as Junior Burke
For 50 years Thom Bishop has been writing songs, lyrics, plays, movies, and more—and his new novel (as Junior Burke) starts with James Dean shooting Ronald Reagan on live TV.
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Spoils of War pioneered the fusion of experimental electronics and psychedelic rock
The late-60s band founded by unheralded composer Jim Cuomo only released one EP during its lifetime.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jim Cuomo
Saxophonist and composer Jim Cuomo played experimental psych with Spoils of War and acid folk with Mormos, and now writes for an Australian brass band.