{"id":3131,"date":"2011-11-27T21:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2011-11-27T21:50:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:50:42","slug":"other-places-blues-on-the-rocks-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/11\/other-places-blues-on-the-rocks-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Blues On The Rocks In Chicago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blues.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blues\" width=\"150\" height=\"89\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3132\" \/><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When Will the Blues Leave?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ornette Coleman asked the question in 1958 by way of the title of a piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Something-Else-Ornette-Coleman\/dp\/B000000Y9C?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">his first album<\/a>. In Chicago, of all places&#151;the blues stronghold of the Midwest for nearly a century&#151;the question is implied in concerns of musicians and club owners who are trying to keep the form alive economically. In a long weekend piece in <em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em>, music critic Howard Reich surveys the blues club scene in the Windy City. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How long can a music that long flourished on the South and West sides \u00e2\u20ac\u201d where the blues originators lived their lives and performed their songs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d stay viable when most of the neighborhood clubs have expired? How long can a black musical art form remain dynamic when presented to a largely white audience in settings designed to replicate and merchandise the real thing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reich\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story has several photo and video sidebars that make it a sort of mini-documentary. To read (and view) the whole thing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/ct-ae-1127-blues-clubs-20111126,0,1616513.column?page=1\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When Will the Blues Leave?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ornette Coleman asked the question in 1958 by way of the title of a piece in his first album. In Chicago, of all places&#151;the blues stronghold of the Midwest for nearly a century&#151;the question is implied in concerns of musicians and club owners who are trying to keep the form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}