Atlanta-based bluesman Chick Willis’s career dates back to the 50s when he toured with Chuck Willis, the flamboyant, turban-clad “King of the Stroll.” Chick carries on his cousin’s show-stopping ways, peppering his act with outrageous double entendres and ribald tales of infidelity and hilarious romantic misadventure (“I don’t love my baby / I tell you […]
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 32
Issue of May. 20 – 26, 1993
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No Pain, Who Gains?
To the editors: I wish to compliment you on a fine article regarding RSD by Robert McClory which appeared in your April 30 issue [“An Incredible Pain”]. Mr. McClory did a fine job of taking a complex medical issue and making it accessible to the layperson. I must however express alarm at the extensive copy […]
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The City File
“We’ve got one doctor who still tells mothers that if they nurse for more than five minutes their nipples will fall off,” lactation consultant Nicki Ward of Prentice Women’s Hospital (a division of Northwestern Memorial) tells the Chicago Reporter’s Clara Jeffery (April). Such medical mythology is one of several reasons why relatively few poor and […]
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Really Gone
To the editors: Anyone who regards Ornette Coleman as the sole living exponent of “free jazz” (as Michael Solot tells us in “It’s Really Gone, Man,” May 7) thereby reveals himself to be so ignorant of the current state of the jazz art that he really has no business writing about it. John Mason Rogers […]
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Clark Terry
If you plan a concert built on the original arrangements of Duke Ellington, you could do worse than hiring someone who played them the first time around. If you hire Clark Terry–who sparked the Ellington trumpet section throughout the 1950s–you can’t do much better. Terry helped modernize that unit; his style in fact straddled swing […]
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Free Jazz
To the editors: Moldy figgery forever!, it seems. Michael Solot is entitled to his opinions about free jazz, but he shouldn’t let them let him indulge in falsehoods and misrepresentation [“Reading: It’s Really Gone, Man,” May 7]. The political consciousness that Solot says made free jazz a vehicle for hating the white man was–according to […]
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Calendar
Friday 21 Getting soap, underwear, toothpaste, diapers, and other basics to local shelters for the homeless is the idea behind the collection drive that continues today under the auspices of the five-year-old Homeless Helpline. Bring your donations (new items only) to any of the following locations : University of Illinois at Chicago Agape House, 1046 […]